So Greelock is my second conlang, and it's basically Gɫuuk's twin. At a glance they look almost identical — same four alphabets, same homage to Mesrop Mashtots, same glyphs even. But say them out loud and they don't sound anything alike.
All the bugs that Gɫuuk exposed where fixed by Greelock and locked in. "Greek" plus "lock". Greelock is locked-down, fixed, closed. It's the phonological opposite of Gɫuuk and I built it that way deliberately.
After Gɫuuk I wanted to test Glossikon's pronunciation feature properly. Do pronunciations really key off the phonology, or is it just reading glyphs off the page? So Greelock reuses Gɫuuk's exact alphabet — Greek, Armenian, Georgian — but remaps every letter onto a different phoneme. Where Gɫuuk is agglutinative, SOV, head-final, nominative-accusative, Greelock is fusional, VSO, head-initial, ergative-absolutive. Gɫuuk is open and airy — vowels close out most syllables, liquids and glides galore, penultimate stress. Greelock is closed and clipped — every syllable needs a consonant to start it, no liquids or glides, obligatory codas go on top, I fixed the stress on the first syllable, and added two fricatives (θ and ɸ) that Gɫuuk doesn't have.
Same letters, opposite language. And the test succeeded — the pronunciations sounded right, Θ sounds like a completely different thing in each language despite being the same glyph on the page.
Morpheme promotion took a couple of tries again too, though nowhere near as bad as the Gɫuuk saga. A few rounds of coining roots that didn't quite promote right, a few re-translations of the same test sentence trying to shake it loose. Finally I felt like it was promoting morphemes to fill lexical gaps instead of making shit up.
Today I am sharing Greelock in the gallery too, so you can compare Gɫuuk and Greelock side by side.