#draconic language

[violet-yimlat]

Hello um.

Dragon language where gender is based on the nature of the dragon’s hoard.

ALLOW ME TO ELABORATE (there is also a very pretty dragon lady below the cut I promise.)

Ok so. I’m not the sort of person who makes up languages for fun. That is not the sort of hobby that appeals to me.

BUT. I was designing this here beautiful lady (see kept my promise)(she hoards teacups. The sword technically belongs to her girlfriend)

When I had the silly brain thought and it is refusing to leave so now I present it here to you:

Dragon genders.

There’s five main genders—as well as a few others we’ll get into later—each based off the classification of the dragon’s hoard:

Wealth (gold, jewels, currency)

Wisdom (mostly books, but also other forms of recorded media)

Labour (tools, weapons, craft supplies)

Life (plants, creatures, food)

And Beauty (art, trinkets, garments)

Each of these has its own set of pronouns attached.

Aside from these categories, there are the three hoardless genders; that which is used to refer to young children, that used to refer respectfully to adults without a hoard or members of other sentient species, and the highly offensive basically-a-slur one.

But the highest insult of all is to say that an individual’s hoard isn’t valid. You just don’t go there.

Uh yeah that’s kind of it, I will be accepting questions, thank you for coming to my ted talk :3

[a-dragons-journal]

Wow, what the fuck, this is a really weird experience. I've been stuck on that missing word from my last post since that went up. There's just A Blank Spot, like when you forget a word in a language you actually are fluent in - "it's on the tip of my tongue" kind of feeling. Except there's Nothing There. It's just like

brain: I wonder if we encountered a [redacted word/concept of a weather/landscape combination feature created by and comprised of the way a large body of water affects wind currents above it and vice versa] while Seeking territory? me: yeah, mayb- me: me: run that not-word by me again? brain: a... you know! a [redacted]! me: me: that's thoroughly unhelpful, thanks

I Don't Get Language Noemata, What Is Happening. What Is This. Why Will You Not Give Me The Word.

[blaurascon]

what would speaking common with a draconic accent sound like, do you think

hrravak's native language is draconic and she didn't learn any common until she was an early teen at minimum so i like to imagine she's got some sort of accent, or some grammatical switch overs. i know draconic has the "stress first and last syllables of a word for emphasis" and i imagine her doing that sometimes, for example (dragons do it often with names so instead of hrr ah VAHK she'd be HRR ah VAHK)

but i'm not familiar enough (and also my brain is mush) with draconic beyond vocabulary via the dictionaries on the wikis and the article from dragon magazine to imagine what an accent from it would be like. so i'm curious what y'all think

i do also imagine her reverting to draconic when she gets upset / riled up enough which is one of my favorite things to see people do hehe

[arverthishar-hrravak]

"ixen" is fire in draconic, but i have no idea what "skaeren" or "svelg" mean. i don't even know if they're draconic. hells they might not even be full words given the paper was half eaten. do y'all have any ideas? i'm very curious

[confugiumbeatum]

Frickin' derivational morphology paradigms

I give up.  I wanted to write a fusional language, but instead I'm making Draconic agglutinative/isolating, so that some of its descendant languages can be fusional.  It's just too damn hard to write convincing fusional paradigms.  Sigh.

[confugiumbeatum]

Conlanging!

Something you may not know about me: I am a huge language nerd.  I am also a huge fantasy nerd!  These two passions combine to make me a conlanger, which is a fancy way of saying I make up languages for people in stories to speak.

ATM I'm working on a language for the dragons in one of my worlds.  You guys... I am just having the BEST damn time coming up with ways dragon speech would differ from human speech.  It is AMAZING.  Expect more geekery on this topic soon!