#canish

[codex-dominion]

I spoke with the person who taught me ELA a few years back & I’m learning with her again this year. She suggested I look into Inuit throat singing, Finnish, & Hindi. I am also looking into Arabic for the rough velar & gutteral sounds.

[codex-dominion]

I’m planning on basing the canim writing system off of futhark. Want to see my reasoning?

(ID: realistic wood grain. Written over it in wood-coloured digital pen are the letters A, E, F, H, T, & Z on the left. They are less visible due to the way the lines blend in to the grain. On the right are the letters/runes ᚠ, ᚢ, ᚦ, ᚨ, ᚱ, & ᚲ. They are more visible due to the fact that every stroke goes against the grain. End ID)

You can see angled or vertical lines much easier against wood grain when you carve letters/runes into wood. I think the Canim would probably use wood & claws more than delicate scrolls of paper. 

(ID: A bunch of wooden tiles with the futhark runes burned/soldered/carved in them. End ID) 

They also have no round shapes which would make carving easier.

(ID: a scroll made up of sticks of bamboo, each stick of bamboo is a line of writing. End ID)

The Canim might even write their tomes like this & carve it directly with their claws. Of course, they might have an entirely different way to interpret writing because of the way their language might work. If it is more tone based & duration based, then maybe their alphabet would be less phonetic.

Another thing I think Canish will be inspired by is Russian. “Definite and indefinite articles (corresponding to 'the', 'a', 'an' in English) do not exist in the Russian language. The sense conveyed by such articles can be determined in Russian by context.” I think that Canim would very much appreciate the lack of articles. Either that or they could represent respect since the Canim are very much about respect & honour.

Anyways, right now I am focusing more on the characters they use (which means their entire writing system, how writing evolved for them, their phonetics, possible & acknowledged phonemes, & their speech system) so their... something is less important. Everything is related. Nevermind.

[codex-dominion]

I’m kind of making a language for the Canim. I know that Butcher already has some stuff down, but I think I want to expand on that. (I also think that maybe canim would not differentiate between consonants as much maybe. You can call Spot “Zbod” or “Stock” & he wouldn’t know the difference, but if you call Spot “Spit”? No that won’t slide.)

I have been doing a ton of research on phonetics, anatomy, linguistics, anthropology, hierarchy, & canine communication but anything helps!

[toughangelbooks]

Woke up to Chanel sleeping like this... against my butt #dogsofinstagram #canish #puppysleeping

[toughangelbooks]

Chanel's response to "it's time to get up" #nope #dogsofinstagram #canish #sleepydoggo

[toughangelbooks]

Merlin and Chanel starting the day with a nap #dogsofinstagram #goldenretriever #canish

[toughangelbooks]

Chanel is trying to figure out why I am still in bed at 9am #dogsofinstagram #canish

[toughangelbooks]

View this post on Instagram

Chanel is took one of Merlin's balls 😂😂😂😂 #dogsofinstagram #canish