Intro to Sikiar

I've had so much fun working on Sikiar. And if you are interested in artificial languages (called Conlangs) too, I have provided a few links to language related sites on my links page.

When I first started on this project i decided that i wanted Sikiar to be a little easier to learn, then English. So I thought, hmm ... if I don't include the entire English alphabet it'll make my language alot simpler. Well, I succeeded in making my language simpler. But at the same time I inadvertently crippled my capacity for word combinations. Oh well, this is just my first go around. Practice makes perfect, right?

A few words on Characters, Grammar, and Syntax

The Sikiar alphabet has two character sets. First there is the English character set, most of my notes use this first set. And then there is the Sikiar character set, for which I have created completely original characters. I plan on dipicting the Sikiar character set and making those available on this page but i have to draw them first, so it might be a while before they are up.

Because this is my first Conlang I decided to stick as close to English as I could. Thus Sikiar uses similar grammar, with one significant difference, Sikiar rules are far more constent then English "rules". I have created Sikiar so that you can pretty much speak it as you would English, with the familiar subject-predicate pattern (e.g. He walked along the way).

You should be able to spell any word in Sikiar fanetically.I tryed to make this possible by simplifying the pronunciation. A vowel will only make its long sound (e.g. the A sound in ape.) when it is either within one consonant of another vowel or it is at the end of a word (to use my previous example the word "ape" would be pronounced "A Pee"). Also if a vowel appears twice right next to itself you would pronounce that the same as "eel" with one long-vowel sound. Sikiar does not use any combanation of characters to represent a new sound, so there is no "th" sound, "sh" sound, "tion" sound, etc...