Despite conlanging being a long-lasting hobby of mine that I can't talk to anyone about offline lest I receive a lovely long-sleeved jacket, a post about conlanging hasn't appeared on this blog since 2011. In October that year I presented what little I had to show of the conlang I was working on.
Getic (aka Not-Albanian) is an attempt to derive a sister language to Albanian from Proto-Albanian under the pretence that the Dacians were their ancestors and one tribe went South (our world's Albanians) and another remained in the Carpathians (the Getae). The Getae were actually located near the Danube and possibly a Thracian tribe, but ethnicity and identity in the Paleo-Balkans is a hell of a mess - I'm just using the name. What I've been working on the almost two years alone are the sound changes from Proto-Indo-European. In that time I ripped most of it up and reorganised the whole thing at least once in order to get the right output. At first it was difficult given the paucity of information on Proto-Albanian. Before I eventually bought
A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language for £80 I had to painstakingly gleam some fundamentals from the Wikipedia page on Albanian - the fronting of long PIE back vowels and monophthongisation of PIE diphthongs and the incidences of palatalisation before front vowels built up a crude chronology. The juicy stuff in that book was of course unavailable at Google Books, so I put down some real money on this hobby. That allowed me to finally progress onto creating the beginnings of a grammar this summer.
