#oc: kayssus (bastard)

[trixierosewrites]

WOOO hi again!! The way I actually start on a conlang is usually by looking at words in another language; I think Akrausian was inspired partially by Greek and partially by German? I know one of the earliest words (that later got workshopped, which is why it's not in the first words selection) was kiros, based off the Greek kyros, and then I looked at some German to find words with a harsher feel? From there I had a general gist of how I wanted words to work and migrated away from the inspiration languages!

The suffixes were usually based on similarities in early words, which often got workshopped to fit together; the most important thing in a language is, of course, words that aren't horrific to pronounce. Pronunciation itself is a mixture of saying words out loud repeatedly and changing the letters until I was satisfied!

"Our" is, unfortunately, the same as "we" (wirsie), and "I" is the same as "me" (mouchsie). I didn't say all my choices were good choices.

Akraus is also kind of famous for having a grand total of six kept historical documents (up until about twenty years before the story starts, when they started document keeping again; this is partially based on the return of four of the documents by Kayssus (bastard) (for other reasons, not the returning of the documents)). The more current documents are written in present tense, with time notations; the original six were from old Akrausian, or Pinian, which is the name of a separate and long since destroyed city(-state). It had more tenses, because it was at a midpoint down the mountain; it's not as complex/convoluted as Morkan but less simplified than Akraus. (Pinian is a conlang WIP. Emphasis on in progress. I have vibes and a vague outline.)

That part partially came about by my love of long words vs narrative inconvenience; Akrausian was built to be a military language, and there's not necessarily time for longer words, and it just... kind of evolved. It's partially based on the sailor tendency to shorten words, actually!

And I feel like this post is steadily becoming a monster, so I'll draft up a separate post for Morkan. If anyone wants to be tagged... 👀

happy sts!

i see in your intro post that you have created seven conlangs, would you like to yap about them?

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YES YES YES YES YES YES. YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

The first I'll talk about is Akrausian, and I'll probably only mention two in this post so I can go into great detail >:3 Akrausian is the language of a very military society, Akraus, which is at the base of the mountain that Morkus is on top of, and the two are essentially opposites.

Akrausian is about simplicity and practicality, so it helpfully has no tenses and no genders. On the plus side, this it's way easier to learn, so once you've got afsie/tosie/tohrsie (they/them/theirs), eisie/mouchsie/wirsie (you, me, we), and tiesie (it), you're good to go, pronoun wise! Tense wise, it's all in the present tense, so a sentence for the past would probably be (directly) translated something like "Yesterday, we are having tea" or so forth.

Types of words often have patterns to be easily recognisable; pronouns have the -sie suffix, connectives have the -ai suffix (uai (and), wiai (as), for example); verbs have the -en suffix (machen, tomitten, stamachen | stab, cut, stop) and so forth.

Of course, it's not all easy. Akrausian has three layers; the format in which I've been sharing words so far, or the council format, where words are said in full; the standard/military format, and the Oh Fuck You're In Trouble Now format (I need a real name for this that's not that. I was thinking the command format, but that then implies other formats can't be a command...).

Take stamachen, for example: in council format, the word for stop takes its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes stamach; in [command] format, it becomes sta.

The idea of this is then that the level of urgency is imbued into the word. The time needed to say it is decreased based on the urgency the situation requires; if someone shouted sta!, a lot of people would freeze immediately.

For hautikos, which is a less easily chopped up word: in council format, it has its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes hautkos; in [command] format, it becomes hotkis (the vowels being shortened rather than syllables being removed).

If you wanted to go them!, the word tosie: its full form in council format; in standard/military format, it becomes toos, in [command] format it can be toss or tis depending on accent. (The original word is pronounced with an o sound like saying "oh".)

I actually designed Akrausian for in-story use, which means that the order in which words were created is really fucking funny, because you get words like niuros (whore), haustikos (pet), skoten (kill), akstummen (maim), machen (stab), and tomitten (cut). Incredible set of first words.

...Maybe I don't have room to talk about Morkan. Someone send me an ask talking about Morkan. I yearn to talk about Morkan.