Tirylhat
Download the Vylíka fonts to see the examples in the Tirylhat alphabet.
Introduction
Tirylhat is a personal language with a complex history, begun in the spring of 1999 (under the name of "Tirelat"). After the success of Gjarrda, I wanted to create a language that would be easier to learn. My initial plan was to create eight words a day and memorize them as I went along, with the goal of having a fully functional vocabulary by the end of 2000 (in time for the new millennium). However, along the way my goals for the language changed, and the ability to quickly do search-and-replace operations over the entire vocabulary led to a very unstable structure that hindered learning. Partly as a result of those problems, I created Czirehlat as a stable "branch" of the Tirelat language family. Since then, I've been revising Tirylhat to incorporate many of the developments in Czirehlat (including the entire verb morphology), and in the late summer of 2001, I updated the Tirylhat vocabulary (with the exception of Gjarrda-derived words) to be more like Czirehlat. In March 2002, Tirylhat went through another major phonology revision, which among other things eliminated the distinction between "è" and "y". (Previously, the name of the language was spelled "Tirèlhat", or "Tirelhat" in ASCII.) Czirehlat was "frozen" at the end of 2001, so that it can act as a stable base from which to continue developing the Tirylhat language, although much of the documentation for Czirehlat still reflects an earlier stage of the language.
Grammar
Texts
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