I originally came up with Stygian for a Mage LARP I was helping run. The original idea was that we needed a language that was the opposite of Enochian for demons and their ilk to speak. For a long time, there was only the name of the language, but eventually I decided to flesh it out some more. It's still a far cry from being a fully developed language, but following are the shards of it that I've constructed so far.

Stygian has several key features that differentiate it from the various forms of English.

• Words are modified only by the addition of one or more prefixes. It is an agglutinating language, no prefix has more than one possible meaning.
• The plurality of a word is indicated by whether or not the word is voiced. A voiced word is singular (i.e. dog) while the same word pronounce without any voicing is plural (i.e. tok).
• There are three genders: inferior, equal, and superior.
• Nouns have cases identical to the structure used in Russian.
• Verbs have only a single root form, which is the present tense of the verb. Only three additional tenses exist (infinitive, past, and future); each is formed by adding the appropriate prefix to the verb root.
• Stygian represents a language developed by a culture with a strong animistic view of the world. As such, the pronouns and query words for people, places, and things are the same words (i.e. he, she, and it are the same word, as are who, where, and what).

	ah	fog			uh	thud
	n	nuclear			g (k)	god (cat)
	d (t)	damnation (tang)			ny	canyon
	r	radiation			o	boat
	oo	lucifer			zh (sh)	pleasure (shadow)
	a	antler			tl	Tlaloc
	z (s)	zebra (horse)			kh (h)	loch (hat)
	th (th)	that (meth)			j (ch)	jump (change)
	b (p)	boy (pole)			m	meth
	e	meth			v (f)	violence (morph)
	y	you			w	will
	l	lark
	-	hyphen			`	plural marker

English	Phonetic Stygian	Stygian
all	vzye
and	oa
beast	bavokh
bringer	zoazgahr
chaos	ahndahkh-rookh
complete	gemel
completeness	mel
darkness	ahndahrookh
day	zhen
death	elnyekh
depth	avgrahmd
dialect	jer
down	zahthag
east	umdud
emperor	gahmed
in	mok
language	badreg
lord (duke, baron, count)	elokh
moon	ben
night	nahkhz
north	zadoom
plague	dalokh
plain (flat region of land)	zathahd
ruler (king, prince, highlord)	meth (or) med
sentient entity (technically everything, but typically used like 'Ladies and Gentlmen', 'Sir', or 'Madam')	goldahd
shadow	zhahr
shared	gebahhk
south	mubebad
speech (formal talk)	`gahvol
spirit (without physical form, demon, djinni)	dahymon
to be	rahthoob
to bring	rahgahr
to die	rahnyekhahkhthoob
to find	rahzhoolgol
to inhabit	rahgahzahg
to move	rahbazad
to settle	rahkhahzahg
up	bahkhwen
west	googor
whole	gemel
word	vol
world	vzye

Stygian math is base 5, rather than base ten. NUmbers larger than 4 are represented as a spectrum (i.e. five is Red|Black). Fractions are indicated by blending each color with the next color (i.e 3.5 is Cyan).

Number	Color	Phonetic Stygian
0	(Black)	ath
1	(Red)	ahzh
2	(Yellow)	ozh
3	(Green)	oozh
4	(Blue)	uhth

	Query	This	That	Some	Any	No	Every
Adjective	Which	This	That	Some	Any	No	Every
	ath	zath	ahr	el	droln	nyekh	vend
Person	Who	This	That	Someone	Anyone	Noone	Everyone
	az	nyookh	nog	gorsaz	drolnaz	nyekhaz	vendaz
Thing	What	This	That	Something	Anything	Nowhere	Everywhere
	az	nyookh	nog	gorsaz	drolnaz	nyekhaz	vendaz
Place	Where	Here	There	Somewhere	Anywhere	Nothing	Everything
	az	nyookh	nog	gorsaz	drolnaz	nyekhaz	vendaz
Time	When	Now	Then	Sometime	Anytime	Never	Always
	akhahkh	ahkh		gorahkh	drolnahkh	nyekhahkh	vendahkh
Way	How	Thus
Reason	Why

English	Phonetic Stygian	Stygian
I	go
You (Superior)	gahdo
You (Equal)	bahdo
You (Inferior)	do
He/She/It (Superior)	gahzo
He/She/It (Equal)	bahzo
He/She/It (Inferior)	zo

Case	Prefix	(before vowels)	Purpose
Nom	no-prefix
Gen	thuh-	thuhkh-	Indicates ownership of preceeding noun by modified noun.
Dat	e-	ekh-	Indicates who/what something was done too
Acc	o-	okh-	Indicates who/what did something
Instr	oo-	ookh-	Indicates how something was done.
Prepl	uh-	uhkh-	Indicates the subject of a prepostion.

Tense	Prefix	(before vowels)
'to' form	rah-	(rahkh-)
Present	no-prefix
Past	lah-	(lahkh-)
Future	nyah-	(nyahkh-)

Meaning	Prefix	(before vowels)
Negation	nye-	(nyekh-)
Adjective	ge-	(gekh-)
-ward (directionally i.e. northward, heavenward downward)	yego-	(yegokh-)

The Babel Text is a means of demonstrating how an artificial language would actually be used in sustained discourse. For more information on the Babel Text visit langmaker.com.

Genesis 11
1. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5. But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
6. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8. So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. That is why it was called Babel --because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

1. ahkh lahthoob gekhazh badreg o gebahkh jer thuhgemel thuhvzye
2. akhahkh `goldahd labazad eyegokhumdud, `zo lahzhoogol o lahkhazag ezathahd mok uhzhenahr