Bikalyo

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

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.

Writing

Ellison elected to use the Roman alphabet, albeit with some modifications, to represent the sounds of his language.

Grammar

Bikalyo is a VSO language. Verbs conjugate for mood, tense, and positive/negative, rather like some aspects of the Japanese verb. Postpositions can indicate the functions of some words, if such a distinction is needed.