Bikalyo

Bikalyo (Bq'alio in its own language) is an a priori conlang created by William Ellison.

Bikalyo Bq'alio
Spoken in:	(N/A)
Timeline/Universe:	(N/A)
Total speakers:	(N/A)
Genealogical classification:	Constructed languages  Artistic languages   a priori languages    Bikalyo
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative/Accusative
Created by:
William Ellison	2006

In creating the language, Ellison wanted to create something at once human and yet alien, something that might seem like a language created by a society, but one also something that might seem to be created by an alien civilization light-years away.

Phonology

 Main article:  Bikalyo phonology

Orthography

 Main article:  Bikalyo orthography

Writing

Ellison elected to use the Roman alphabet, albeit with some modifications, to represent the sounds of his language. Some letterforms used in Bikalyo are quite common in Eastern European languages, such as "š," but others stem from Scandinavian languages, such as "þ." Here is the complete alphabet:

 Aa Bb Dd Ee Əə Ff Gg GH/Gh Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Šš Tt Þþ Ww Uu Yy Zz

Grammar

 Main article:  Bikalyo grammar

Bikalyo is a VSO language in most uses, but the occasional rhetorical usage might be accomplished in SOV, and some grammatical constructions are more easily expressed in SOV.

Postpositions

Postpositions can indicate the functions of some words, if such a distinction is needed. These postpositions can indicate certain senses of the word being modified, or they can indicate what might be indicated by prepositions in English. An example:

 Ql'myren qil' ghal'lad gh'qat'igh ig elilisiþ'yuq.
 That is my seafood in the refrigerator.

Verbs

All Bikalyo verbs end in -am. They head the sentence and conjugate for mood, tense, and positive/negative, rather like some aspects of the Japanese verb.