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Post by Wykked Wytch on Sept 22, 2011 17:58:44 GMT -5
Thanks. I can see the Welsh and Hebrew, but Chinese? I don't know. My wife thinks it sounds kinda African. It's probably a good thing that it's not easily placeable. I'm working on writing a grammar that will include a pronunciation guide. I'm also planning to make some videos, so you'll get to hear it. Re: Draconic: Jewels and hoarding! Yes! Your wife's probably right. In the universe I'm constructing, there are satyrs living in a boreal mountain region. (There are lots of other species too, but whatever.) At some point in their history, dragons arrived and took over the region so that they could grab resources for their own civilization. But because dragons are lazy and do nothing but reap the benefits of others' labor, they enslaved some of the satyrs and genetically altered some of them, to make better slaves to manage the bureaucratic empire they had created. Eventually, their nightmarish colony collapsed from the sheer inefficiency of it all, and other species collaborated to drive the dragons deep underground in a revolutionary effort. However, the mutants were still alive and started to build their own civilization from scratch. They are still distrusted as "tools of the empire", and unlike other satyrs (who speak Sylvan), their language, religion, and society still has strong Draconic influence.
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Post by John E on Sept 25, 2011 22:55:08 GMT -5
I've started a new conlang project. It's a brand new conlang I'll be creating, with a blog to track every step of the process. The FairyLang ProjectI'm still working on my other main conlang but I've got the grammar worked out to a point that I'm happy with, and all it needs is more vocab, so it doesn't require as much of my attention right now.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 27, 2011 5:37:16 GMT -5
Thanks. I can see the Welsh and Hebrew, but Chinese? I don't know. My wife thinks it sounds kinda African. It's probably a good thing that it's not easily placeable. I'm working on writing a grammar that will include a pronunciation guide. I'm also planning to make some videos, so you'll get to hear it. Re: Draconic: Jewels and hoarding! Yes! From a quick perusal of the short story, I would say it orthographically looks Welsh (or possibly gaelic, it's all those h's in funny places), although it is of course impossible to judge the pronunciation. Looking at the gloss it seems to follow broadly Indo-European patterns although without the fairly distinctive conjugating for person, am I right? I look forward to seeing more on your new blog by the way.
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Post by John E on Sept 28, 2011 1:08:10 GMT -5
You're right on all counts. The Hs in unusual places were inspired by gaelic, not directly based on though, so I don't know if they make the same sounds they do in gaelic. In mine...
ph = f bh = v th = th as in thimble dh = th as in this sh = sh kh = ch as in Bach (a fricative version of k)
I plan on doing a video of the story, in case anyone's curious about how it sounds.
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Post by John E on Oct 12, 2011 10:33:44 GMT -5
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Post by John E on Oct 26, 2011 23:11:43 GMT -5
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Post by John E on Nov 10, 2011 12:14:44 GMT -5
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Post by John E on Nov 23, 2011 0:24:41 GMT -5
FairyLang has its first word! And that word is cara, meaning "friend," a borrowing from Irish, and my wife's name.
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Post by Yla on Nov 23, 2011 5:09:00 GMT -5
I restructured parts of my Rophebyreian yesterday (and I have to rename it since the world lore behind the name changed). Instead of no articles, it now has articles from 7 cases (nominative for dynamic, semi-dynamic, and static verbs, locative, accusative, instrumental, and something like dative/final. No genitive, since that's done by compound nouns), 5 geni(m, f, animals&automata, static things, places&abstracts) and 4 numeri(null,singular,plural,total). Not all combinations exist, so nouns can change genus. And the articles double as 3. person pronouns.
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Post by John E on Nov 23, 2011 22:16:50 GMT -5
I'm thinking of coining the word "barcu" or "barkhu" for "dog" in FairyLang. I want this language to be a bit playful and silly, but is this TOO silly?
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Post by chad sexington on Nov 23, 2011 22:45:21 GMT -5
I'd say it's too close to 'bark'; try tinkering with the letters - baccu, balcu, macu...
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Post by Yla on Nov 24, 2011 7:07:30 GMT -5
"Bark" as an onomatopoeia for the sounds a dog makes is not universal. It's rendered in a lot of ways in different languages.
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Post by DarkfireTaimatsu on Nov 24, 2011 7:19:48 GMT -5
Hell, not even in English. "Woof" or "bow-wow", anyone?
For the sake of completeness, "wan" is the equivalent sound in Japanese.
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Post by shykid on Nov 24, 2011 15:44:36 GMT -5
Japanese onomatopoeia always looks weird because the language has a fairly small inventory of phonemes prearranged into simple syllables, plus it pretty much has no diphthongs (unless you count combinations with the semivowel /j/) or consonant clusters to speak of, and the only possible coda is /n/ (though Japanese has lots of allophony to give it the illusion of having a larger phoneme inventory).
But almost everyone in this thread probably already knew that.
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