Post Lexember Musings
Now that I've gotten the remains of Lexember 2024 out of the way, I should really sit down and come up with some achievable conlang goals for this year.
WIKI
I want to keep working on my wiki, keep chipping away at those Faerûnian Elven dictionary entries, and maybe branch out into the Supernalese language family. At the end of this I want each language to have;
articles on the people who speak the language,
articles about the language,
the writing systems they use,
the historical forms of the language and how it evolved,
and dictionary entries for swadesh words.
There's some other stuff I want to get to if I can be bothered, such as common (a trade pigeon used in Faerûn. I personally think it's really cute, a lot of animal words are the sound they make in a reduplicated pair, so cat is essentially miaow-miaow, dog woof-woof, songbird tweet-tweet, corvid bird caw-caw etc), the main languages the common derives from, and some maps and other images to tie everything together. But! These aren't super important, if I put them off to return to a different project, that's fine, it's just the completionist in me thinking up great ideas at a rate no human could possibly fit in within their lifetime.
SCRIPTS
Additionally I want to put more time into refining my writing systems. After a year or more using the current ones, I'm noticing some little features that could be better, forms that could be captured better by hand etc, that cannot be resolved in another other way than me drawing them out by hand, digitising them, vectorising them, and then converting them into functional typefaces.
Unfortunately I do not not know if there's an easy way to "tell" a typeface to type boustrophedonically, so to capture the scripts properly I will need to either grit my teeth and just live with the roman directionality, or figure out a cheap and easy work around.
THIS BLOG
It occurs to me I should probably do more to share what I'm working on here in greater detail, mostly my issue is that I'm not really sure what the best format even is for tumblr these days. At the very least I should share the information I currently have on my wiki filed under "metalog" which is to say, a quick series of tables details basic information about each language from my perspective and not in-universe.
Information such as;
the date of birth of each language,
my primary and secondary purpose,
the name of the language by its own terms as well as my own,
the setting,
language family, dialects, morphology, phonology, syntax, number system,
how magical the language is (a mechanic of my own invention that doesn't necessarily conform to wotc canon but it's not like I actually care what they're doing in this regard),
genders,
number (different than the number system),
tense,
mood,
aspect,
transitivity,
passivity,
cases,
the reputation of the language by non-speakers within Faerûn (wotc has some pre-existing worldbuilding on this by I personally find them nonsensical and not exactly demonstrative of someone who understands the difference between Language, and Word Language within a language iykwim, so I am trying to make sense of what already exists and throwing out everything that doesn't make sense to me or is something they've hinted they're trying to move away from like the concept of languages being evil in and of themselves. Mostly I am concerned with is how "literary" a language is vs how wildly spoken they are vs how oppressed or suppressed they are as this is something that is going to manifest in loanwords and proper nouns.)
links to articles that go more in depth in various subjects,
and also a quickly example of the language so I can remind myself what it looks like and how it's structured.
Obviously not all of these are going to be easy to share on tumblr but I should at least come up with a little table for you all so you can tell the alphabets from the abjads from the abugidas from the logographs from the
At the very least I should make random posts going over what I'm changing as that is ultimately the purpose of this blog.