As said before, this submission to the Jamlang Season 1 Menya was not my work alone. Allowed to be in groups, I was put together with Heyhianxiety, who also looked for someone to group with. It was completely new to me, conlanging with someone else than myself and my very own thoughts, but if I could do it again, I wouldn't be against the idea. Although, conlanging in group isn't easy, even more when your partner is in the oposite timezone (she was online from 22h/23h to 11h/12h...).
We still managed to make it work. By working individually on the language, and then telling what we did and what should we do next to the other before going to sleep, we permitted ourselves to work at a relatively okay pace compared to the others. We also had rare but welcoming Google Docs sessions, where we would just go to a mess of a Google Doc document, and write turn by turn our ideas and how to integrate them to Menya.
Speaking about Menya itself now, Menya is a conlang inspired by the Australian Pama-Nyungan languages, with a hellish number of nasals, no fricatives, and a massive number of suffixes (a porte-manteau word for cases and other derivation constructions). The people speaking this language would then be placed in a savannah plateau more similar to the ones founds in eastern africa, like near the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia.
We still tried to go a little bit away from the usual Pama-Nyungan languages, with VOS word order instead of the commonly used VSO one, and the evolution of Japanese-style honorific pronouns.