Welcome! Wattunkí ruyün! Attawîláiff üpʰu! On this webpage, you will find assorted tools, resources, and (someday maybe even) APIs whose collective goal is to aid in learning and using the Ithkuilic languages.
Ithkuilic venues
- uhailalepš Discord server — where most of today’s discussions about Ithkuil III and IV are held. If you want to learn the language(s) or have a chat about them, consider joining!
- r/Ithkuil subreddit — where the design documents are posted, as well as kiepier’s quasi-weekly translation challenges.
Ithkuil IV
Ithkuil IV (a.k.a., The New Ithkuilic Language or TNIL) is John Quijada’s newest, work-in-progress creation. More info…
Documentation and learning materials
- Welcome to the Ithkuil subreddit — § Ithkuil 4 resources contains the newest versions of each of the three regularly-updated design documents (in PDF form): Morpho-phonology, Lexical Roots, and VxCs Affixes (what are those?). Make sure to get all of them.
- TNIL documentation archive (on-site) is where you’ll find links to older releases (to satisfy your curiosity).
- Morphology cheatsheet (Menotim) — a 2-page bird’s-eye overview of Morpho-phonology for quick and handy reference.
- Collaborative TNIL Roots and Affixes Spreadsheet (Syst3ms, kiepier, Behemoth) — a computerized edition of the lexicon, intended as the backing database for….
- IthkuilGloss (Behemoth4, Syst3ms) — a Discord utility bot that parses and provides interlinear glosses for any TNIL input that you give it.
Trinkets
- Pick a color, get the TNIL root! (porpoiseless)
Texts
- TNIL Community Lexical Supplement (Ilmen, uakci, uagle…) — an informal dictionary in the works consisting of around 100 TNIL lexemes alongside their English renditions.
- TNIL translations & stuff (uakci; various authors) — an edited, back-translated, irregularly-updated anthology of original works, translations, and other works in TNIL.
Miscellaneous
- ASCII-friendly TNIL romanization (uagle)
- TNIL Romanization for IMEs (Christian Oudard)
Outdated or incomplete resources
- NILDB (by HactarCE and porpoiseless) is a computer-readable listing of TNIL Categories in YAML format.
- Libre documentation (porpoiseless, HactarCE)
- Roots v0.4, bookmarked, Affixes v0.7.1, bookmarked (Merox)
Offshoots
- Skewers (uakci; outdated as of now) — a morphological mod aiming to reduce the amount of arbitrariness in the language.
- Freetnil (porpoiseless, uakci, et al.) — a community-driven effort which attempts to distill TNIL’s progressive ideas further and set them against a philosophically sound semantic and ontological theory.
Ithkuil III
Ithkuil III is the Ithkuil that you can find on ithkuil.net. More info…
Documentation and learning materials
- A Grammar Of Ithkuil (ithkuil.net) — the be-all and end-all of Ithkuil III documentation. Make sure to visit the updates page, which lists post-release tweaks to the language that haven’t been recorded in the main text.
- Elamxhí (porpoiseless) a computer-readable list of roots, retrieved from Ithkuil III’s lexicon page. The link will take you to a nice user-friendly interface.
- PDFs for:
- All roots (Ilmen)
- All suffixes (Ilmen)
- The whole website (?)
- Cheatsheets:
- phalp’s Introductory Ithkuil lessons: 1, 2, 3 & 4.
- Memrise courses:
Tooling
- Ithkey (melopee) — a keyboard layout for the Ithkuil writing system. Also contains Ykulvaarlck’s Ithkuil font and a detailed description of how it works.
- Formative maker (?) — pick and choose category values, press a button, and see the resulting formative.
- Glosser (ebvalaim)
Texts
- Official Texts, Deviations, Translations (vulgak; various authors) — the definitive repository of Ithkuil III written output.
- Small vocab list (Ilmen) — a moderately-sized list of peculiar coinings.
Miscellaneous
- Notes on Ithkuil (?) — a blog.
Ithkuil I and II
Also known as Iţkuîl and Ilaksh. Read more…
- On-site mirror of ithkuil.net
- Web Archive snapshot of ithkuil.net — incomplete (‘archaeological’!) documentation for 2004 & 2007 Ithkuil.
- Ithkuil I Russian translation