tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post5124852867294533648..comments2024-02-16T01:19:34.964-05:00Comments on The Walk of Words: Creating a fantasy language: basic sentencesRebekkah Nileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06684711663696588263noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-33445693431691427312014-02-22T20:47:14.268-05:002014-02-22T20:47:14.268-05:00For this language, it uses a basic English alphabe...For this language, it uses a basic English alphabet, so I chose random short letter combinations as word roots. Some I just nab parts off words I see around me; others I pull out of nowhere. I rarely run out of ideas since there's so many basic combinations, but being random can be harder if you like working with a system. It's fun, though, because if you end up with two similar words you can start making puns in your language, and sometimes I do things with it like say the words are considered associated in the culture (so if "hoskon" also meant "colorful," I might say having lots of furniture is considered a sign of being a cheerful person).<br /><br />It was actually easier in a language I made with a character alphabet that had 56 characters, each either a single letter or a pair of letters (similar to Japanese hiragana). The first 50 characters I each assigned to be a word on their own, and I chose a set of fundamental concepts that I thought would be most important to an evolving society --“ti”=life; “so”=I/self; “fa”=water; “ku”=eat; “da”=first; “sho”=after; etc. Then, whenever I needed a new word, I chose which of those 50 concepts it was most related to and combined the characters. So, “sotifa” would be “blood” and so on. The last 6 concepts I used for conjugating verbs, making plurals, making adjectives, etc.<br /><br />Another method, if you want to sound similar to a certain language without being that language, is to find a word in the target language that means the same and changing it to sound similar to the words you already have (if you have a language without o’s, for example, and you want to create something vaguely close to german, the word for week might be “vak” instead of “Woche”; and you don’t want it to be too close, so “bahn” for train might be “bina”).Rebekkah Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684711663696588263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-42572502449574776512014-02-22T19:51:29.924-05:002014-02-22T19:51:29.924-05:00How did you come up with the words for this langua...How did you come up with the words for this language?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00260057894665538773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-27244293423786807602013-07-29T09:13:53.160-04:002013-07-29T09:13:53.160-04:00Thanks! I'm glad you're finding them helpf...Thanks! I'm glad you're finding them helpful. :) Rebekkah Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684711663696588263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-61007924639407333712013-07-29T02:55:11.899-04:002013-07-29T02:55:11.899-04:00These are really good and well written. The idea o...These are really good and well written. The idea of making a language has always appealed to me, and even though I'm just loosely following these guides, they're very helpful. I'm mostly working on some vocab first, then I'll move on to grammar and sentence structure. Well done non the less.Emily Maylihttp://mayli-song.deviantart.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-11606371005147125972012-06-21T09:26:50.096-04:002012-06-21T09:26:50.096-04:00:D I'm glad you're finding them helpful! I...:D I'm glad you're finding them helpful! I was actually just wondering if anyone would actually find them useful, but now I know that someone is, I'll keep going! :D<br /><br />I think most people get intimidated by the fact that it sounds complicated, but once you get going, it's actually pretty easy to write a language. Just make sure you keep a running list of your vocabulary, because that's the part that takes the longest - making all the words! Fortunately, it's also kind of addicting, because once you get started, it's actually really fun. :)Rebekkah Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684711663696588263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4748832844228334272.post-68604122211609534512012-06-20T18:14:51.170-04:002012-06-20T18:14:51.170-04:00Awesome series. Very informative! I've done so...Awesome series. Very informative! I've done some flirting with fantasy languages in my work, but I'm always too intimidated to leap write in, so I'm digging these entries.AuthorAldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06905712756325750291noreply@blogger.com