The Šamhešmi Language

Edition 1.5

Šamhešmi is a constructed (invented) language spoken on a world far from our own. Here we provide materials for its study and description. (This language formerly went by the name of Mîrkšam and is a much-revised form of the same.)

A Reference Grammar of the Šamhešmi Language

A complete grammatical description of the language, with copious examples, reference charts, and notes.

Lexicon

All the known vocabulary in the form of a spreadsheet.

Corpus of texts

A corpus of all the texts currently written in or translated into Šamhešmi. Includes interlinear glosses for each one. Still in production.

Obsolete texts

Information about Mîrkšam before the great revision. There’s an old reference grammar (probably useless) and a number of translated texts (outdated in many ways, but there’s still some salvageable material).

A Reference Grammar of the Mîrkšam Language: Feizet Âg Śothutmašmiek Mîrkšami

Interlinear translation of The Gods of Pegāna

An interlinear translation of the beginning of Lord Dunsany’s The Gods of Pegāna into Mîrkšam.

More sample texts

Other short sample texts in Mîrkšam, with interlinear glosses.

More information at the Conlang Atlas of Language Structures (CALS)