Tirelat
Download the Vlika fonts to see the examples in the Tirelat alphabet.
Introduction
Tirelat is a language with a complex history, begun in the spring of 1999. After the success of Jarda, 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 revised Tirelat to incorporate many of the developments in Czirehlat (including the entire verb morphology), and in the late summer of 2001, I updated the Tirelat vocabulary (with the exception of Gjarrda-derived words) to be more like Czirehlat. In March 2002, Tirelat went through another major phonology revision, which among other things eliminated the distinction between "è" and "y". Czirehlat was "frozen" at the end of 2001, so that it can act as a stable base from which to continue developing the Tirelat language, although much of the documentation for Czirehlat still reflects an earlier stage of the language. The latest development of the Tirelat language began in 2004, when I realized that Tirelat is actually a language spoken by Sangari (furry non-human people related to the Zireen). In the process of redesigning Tirelat as a Sangari language, I've been going back to earlier forms of words, and undoing some of the more recent changes in Tirelat grammar (in particular, the addition of genders for nouns).
Grammar
Texts
(some in older versions of Tirelat)
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