Conlangs
I presented on Rhapsodaic, a personal engineered language, at the 10th Language Creation Conference, and soon after felt prompted to make the website Rhapsody Langs to showcase my work. I haven't updated that in a couple years now, so I figure I should provide my more up-to-date information here.
Rhapsodaic is a language designed to convey emotional and metaphorical imformation incredibly precisely (and in a way that makes sense to me personally) while only communicating the bare essentials of concrete material information. All root words refer to emotions; to speak about anything else, one has to inflect that word to indicate that it's an object (or person, or action, or situation, or etc.) associated with that emotion. It's a pride and joy language of mine, but not currently in active development (though the day will certainly arise when I revive my active interest in working with it further).
More current languages of mine are Lanwe, an "inner child argot"; Anyaruez, a language all about becomings and unfoldings; Metzi, a tongue-twisting fairy language; Cupath, a fantasy TTRPG-inspired written language built on similar procedural methods to Rhapsodaic; and Pentacameral, an ever-in-progress work inspired by Diana Reed Slattery's Glide language. I have an evident soft spot for moody engineered languages.
[note to future editing Natanya—create sites and add links for all these reference grammars and whatnot]
Oh, and here's that presentation:
About Me
*pssst! click the picture of me to return to the home page!*
I am a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, poet, essayist, ttrpg writer, conlanger, witch, outsider dancer (not formally taught), and outside dancer (dances outside). I use any pronouns, but would prefer that you switch it up fairly frequently.
The name of this site is in reference to Lailah, the angel of conception, fate, forgettance, and war. How come? A strong personal significance to me and my view of things (find out more through the Games and Poetry windows [once they're up]), and a love for singsongy words.