Old Kyzym is, in a sentence, the based and Tsezpilled language of ancient dragon-circassians.
It is the ancestor of modern Kyzym and its four relatives. It was spoken in Kyzym, a small, mountainous kingdom designed for a D&D campaign which has an economy and culture largely built around the collection and sale of the shed hides of dragons that live in the area. It is primarily inspired by Caucasian and 'Altaic' languages (i.e, Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages). Old Kyzym is being constructed entirely synchronically and a priori, once it's fully fleshed out, work on the modern language and its handful of relatives will begin.
Old Kyzym includes:
- An odd phonology with a palatal vowel/consonant thing
- Some slight vowel harmony of some sort (TBD)
- Heavily agglutinative morphology
- A really unnecessary number of locative cases
- Georgian-inspired split ergativity based on verb class
- Masculine, feminine and neuter genders
- Needlessly complicated verbal paradigm
- Mostly free but primarily VOS word order
- Awesome calligraphy
- Dragons