About

I'm Eric Demko, a.k.a. Okuno Zankoku, but I've kinda given up on internet pseudonyms. I started conlanging in 2004, when my parents got me a book on Tolkien's languages. Ever since then, I've conlanged sporadically, growing each time.

I'm primarily interested in naturalistic a prioiri artistic constructed languages. That is, I like to make languages from scratch, as an artistic endeavour, and I like to make them seem realistic (natural). My special interests are in phonology, and to a lesser extent, typology and morphosyntactic alignment.

I'm not very good at learning languages even though I'm very quick study with the grammar, because I don't like to spend the time to learn the vocabulary. Nevertheless, I've had instruction in a variety of languages: German, Latin, Japanese, and Ukranian. If I could pick a handful of languages to know, they might be (in no particular) Tzotzil, Evenki, Old Norse, Dalmatian, and Farsi.

Sometimes I have little ideas for languages. Rather than let those ideas slip into obscurity, I'd prefer to have them documented. So far, I've really only published Tayéin (okay and a couple languages from my dark ages of conlanging I'd rather not look at), but I've got bits, peices, and sketches: Likăku'a, Mígǎciw, Fäesek, and Eruxjunsjukiettaneraro, and those are just the ones that have names. This site will be a place where I can post big works, but I hope I'll also come here more often to post the smaller things.