The development and completion of Alaskian language

Martin Pustumas discusses the development and completion of his conlang Alaskian. He explains that he has been interested in languages since childhood and started creating languages in middle school. He aimed for a realistic world, introducing a new language in an actual historical environment that is derived from historical languages and influenced by other real languages. He talks about the Semitic nature of Alaskian and its ties to the island of Cyprus. Martin also mentions the challenges of creating a language based on Semitic roots without being a native speaker. He highlights some interesting features of Alaskian, such as its conjugation for loan verbs from European languages and the influence of Greek on its tense system.