I've worked on Cepperjoleddicg nearly every day since the December of 1998. The results are surprising. Due to my own perfectionism, I am always removing words and concepts about which I'm not entirely comfortable and so the lexicon, which at its height contained some 5000 terms, now stands at about 3000 (there are currently 150 words waiting to be added to the dictionary just as soon as Angelfire stops giving me trouble long enough to type them in). Words are added everyday, though, and it's impossible to keep a firm grasp on the size of the language. One thing that hasn't been diminished by my need to have everything perfect is the language's grammatical structures. Cepperjoleddicg is an anciet Scandinavian language with West Germanic, East Germanic, and Goidellic influences. The language is historically possible -- I imagine something akin to Cepperjoleddicg would have developed in the North of Scotland, and the Shetland and Orkney Islands, and even in Iceland had the Germanic people coexisted with the Gaels, rather than just, er, killing them.

     Modern Cepperjoleddicg is not one language, but instead three closely related tongues with a shared ancestry. I began the making the distinction between Cepperjoleddicgs years ago so that I could play with several grammatical concepts at once without beginning a new language project. Now, though, the "dialects" are so different that mutual intelligibily is not always possible. A discussion of the different languages may be found here.

     Cepperjoleddicg is written with an alphabet based on the Roman one, but there are many differences. The Cepperjoleddicg alphabet was designed to reflect what the Roman alphabet would evolved into with heavy influence from the Germanic runic alphabets. A discussion of the differences in the alphabets may be found here. For æsthetic reasons, I have created a transcription for turning some of the more common and cumbersome letter clusters into one simple Roman letter (by the same token, I've ignored the differences in combining forms and double letters). i_i is written į, iⁱ is j, o_i is ø, u_i is y, u_iu is yy, u^u is w, u^uu is uw, and d^~ is ð. This was done to cut down on the amount of clusters that would be confusing to the student, such as u^uhu^uu, "war." This word is recorded here as "wuw." Because of this transfiguration, I have nearly written the letter /h/ out of existence, which is primarily used to mark a breaking point between potential clusters.
     I have also transferred the Cepperjoleddicg base-12 number system in familiar base-10. A discussion of base-12 may be found at my College of Weights, Measures, and Exactitudes.