laikym
Laikym is a fictional language family created for worldbuilding and speculative linguistics. It is used to illustrate how languages can diversify across an archipelago through trade, contact, and migration. In the in‑world lore, descendant languages are spoken on an island chain also named Laikym, and the term laikym is sometimes used to refer to the proto-language from which those tongues allegedly evolved.
Etymology: The name laikym is a constructed coinage formed by combining invented morphemes laik- and -ym, commonly
Linguistic features: The laikym family is described as primarily analytic to mildly agglutinative, with a base
History and distribution: Proto-Laikym is said to predate recorded history within the fictional setting. The archipelago’s
Cultural reception: In narrative works and worldbuilding scholarship, laikym serves as a tool to explore language