Kamya

Kamya is an a priori language set in modern-day south-eastern Europe. I began Kamya in 2018 and have been working on it on and off ever since. It has become the most developed language I’ve worked on to date, both in terms of grammar and vocabulary.

The first time information on Kamya was shared publicly was in November 2020 when its “focus suffix” was featured in Episode 4 of Artifexian’s WLRST series (see original document here).

Next, in March 2021, I gave a presentation entitled The exponence of grammatical number in Kamya at the Digital Language Creation Conference. The slides for this talk can be seen here, the clipped video here and that day’s full livestream here.

In 2022, I wrote an article called Topics in adjectival meaning in Kamya which was published in the fifth issue of r/conlangs’ journal Segments on the semantic ranges of nine adjectives. The entire issue can be accessed here on the Reddit post announcing its publication.

In 2025, I used Kamya in Jessie’s ring of Let’s Have A Relay (torch, mistakes and all, here).

Reference grammar extracts

My reference grammar for Kamya currently stands at around 300–350 pages and a list of its current chapters is given below with links to PDFs of some draft extracts.¹

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Phonology and orthography
  • Section 2.4: Stress
• Chapter 3: Nouns and pronouns
  • Section 3.2: Grammatical case
• Chapter 4: Core verbal morphology
• Chapter 5: Determiners
• Chapter 6: Adjectives
• Chapter 7: Numerals and classifiers
• Chapter 8: Possession
• Chapter 9: Adverbs
• Chapter 10: Impersonal constructions
• Chapter 11: Further verbal topics
• Chapter 12: Phrase structure
• Chapter 13: Clause structure
• Chapter 14: Questions
• Chapter 15: Discourse matters
• Chapter 16: Irregular verbs
• Chapter 17: Derivational morphology
• Appendix A: Word lists
• Appendix B: Thematic lexicon
• Appendix C: Onomastics
• Appendix D: Example texts