Fade Accompli: Kilirna Index

Kilirna was my first conlang, and it's still undergoing revisions and expansions. It currently has a vocabulary of around 1100 words. (The translation dictionaries are updated every few hundred additional words, as I add new words too frequently to try to keep them constantly up to date.)

I used to have a series of essays on how different parts of speech worked, but this was long, not exclusively coherent, and less than well-organized. For the moment, I'm replacing these with a series of primers on the Kilirna language, which I'll be adding to as I get more written up. You'll also find examples of translations into Kilirna, or items originally written in Kilirna and then translated back into English; the latter are more useful for insights into the culture.


Kilirna Primer

Lesson 01 - Basic Sentence Structure
Lesson 02 - Possessives, Adjectives, and Adverbs
Lesson 03 - Introduction to Prepositions
Lesson 04 - Verb Tenses
Lesson 05 - Intro to Conjunctions
Lesson 06 - Noun Affixes and Pronouns
Lesson 07 - Verbs of Mood


Resources

Kilirna -> English Vocabulary
English -> Kilirna Vocabulary
How to Make and Pronounce Words
Kilirna Names
Quirks of the Language


Kilirna Texts and Translations

A Kilirna lullaby
Translated passage from the Book of Five Rings
"Infant Joy", a translated William Blake poem
"Redre Diskaki Omi", a simple Kilirna poem without translation
"Ize", a Kilirna poem about a fish and the moon
"zheKimitsu ikora", a Kilirna fable of a woman and her island


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