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This is where I document my constructed languages. There's not much here, but maybe there will be eventually..

Otseqon planet
The language of the Otseqon people, a culture dwelling on a number of very large boats and the main focus of the Otseqon world. It has a syntax difficult to describe by traditional approaches, as it entirely lacks nouns as a syntactic class. It has many other features including a complex layered word structure with many bound morphemes, a large inventory of classifiers, several formality registers, an extensive system of ideophones, a lack of pragmatic presuppositions, and a very well-developed signed register. Sobung interacted heavily with Otseqon starting at the end of the Old Otseqon period. It loaned a great deal of vocabulary into Otseqon, but the structures of the language remain quite distinct. Sobung features a very flexible word class system (anything can be nouned or verbed) and a clause-chaining syntax consisting of switch-reference marked dependent clauses terminated by a single finite verb. It has a somewhat unusual case system with a split-marked-nominative alignment dependent on volition and telicity. Ieba is the dialect continuum of the eponymous Ieba archipelago. It's known for a number of unusual phonological features, particularly the lack of nasals, tiny consonant inventory, and presence of syllabic fricatives. Even beyond the phonology, the language remains weird, with a word order driven only by information structure and with no reliable way to determine grammatical relations. A sign language spoken on a part of the Ieba archipelago with high rates of congenital deafness, it shares a number of traits with spoken Ieba due to contact but is an independent language.
 * Otseqon (WIP adding material: there's a lot of it)
 * Otseqon Signed Register
 * Classical Sobung
 * Ieba
 * Ieban Sign

Uncategorized
A quick sketch that ended up more Australian that I was intending. Also a dumping ground for miscellaneous features and orthographic experiments.
 * Bmarang

The beginnings of things that never went anywhere
Axaʒe is spoken by tribes of goat herders in the mountainous Kaza region, and possesses a massive consonant inventory and fiendishly complex morphology (but balanced out by rather straightforward morphophonology) with many monoconsonantal morphemes.
 * Axaʒe
 * → This was intended to be some sort of NWC-Ainu thing that never quite panned out.

Tsuku is known for a large number of rather unusual consonant clusters and a curious syntax that lacks either nouns or verbs, depending on how you look at it. It bears some suspicious similarities to Otseqon, but any genetic relationship is obscured due to the heavy Sobung influence on Otseqon.
 * Tsuku
 * → A hardcore Formosan ripoff.

A posteriori languages
Tingwon is an a posteriori language derived from Proto-Oceanic and forming its own residual group. Within its alt-history, it is spoken on the Tingwon Islands in the Bismark archipelago. It has some interesting grammatical developments. Collaborative project with GufferDK.
 * Tingwon (collab)

Engineered languages
[TBD]