Suh Ankripton: The New Kryptonian Language from Superman
The latest from Jessie and me is Suh Ankripton: the new Kryptonian language from Superman (2025). It shows up in a key (but minor) way in the new film, though you'll hear it again in future (and a lot more of it). It's head-initial: SVO and inflectional, with verbs that are meatier than we expected... Eventually I'll put the dialogue from the movie up on my AO3, but I want to wait until people have had a chance to see it, as the dialogue plays a key role in the film. Look for that in the coming weeks!
i wasn't sure if linguistics was the right major for me but when one of my professors said our final project for the semester would be to invent our own language i went completely insane
i have a system of pronouns that covers three levels of formality and both normative and accusative forms. i have spent two hours inventing tense suffixes. i have so many. they're so beautiful. it's verb-subject-object. #mytensesuffixes
One of my favorite things to world build is how different languages would look in minecraft. To be specific, when I'm worldbuilding based on minecraft I love to imagine how players would use sign language! I think a huge part of language creation/evolution comes from environment and culture, especially when it comes to sign languages!! Like imagine if people indicated to where a gamer tag would be when asking for someone's name?? Or what the signs for different mobs would look like?? Idk just something I like to think about
Imagine that the Wyrms, Bees, Weavers, and whatever the White Lady is, all have their own languages and that Hornet, who has been raised by a member of each of them, learned said languages as part of her upbringing in her heritage. She's taught by tutors how to speak politely in each of their languages but taught herself how to curse fluently in each of them.
I guess posts have been made about where you can find references on Sindarin, Quenya, Nandorin, Old Elvish, and Noldorin among others on Tumblr but I wanted to make my own list (so I can come back to it when I need it). If you know a website you'd like me to consider for my list, please just mention it to me.
Ambar Eldaron – Sindarin and Quenya dictionaries and courses
Ardalambion – Website about the sounds of Tolkien's languages and their grammar
Automatic Quenya translator – English to Quenya and back
Eldamo – A lexicon of Tolkien's invented languages including fonts
Glæmscrafu – This website explores the sounds of Tolkien's invented languages and includes several texts and poems
Gwaith-i-Phethdain, The Fellowship of the Word-Smiths – Very detailed page by Ryszard Derdzinski. Many poems and calligraphies. Particularly noteworthy are the translations of the Elvish texts and songs from the film trilogy.
Hiswelokë's Sindarin Dictionary – A Sindarin and Noldorin dictionary that was started in 1999 and then went on hiatus in 2008
I Lam Arth – Aaron Shaw's site with a series of in-depth articles on Sindarin
Lalaith's Middle Earth Science Pages – Website about Middle-earth's people, languages of the humans, and other things. This also includes Rohirric if you're into learning that.
Mellonath Daeron – Some useful Elvish phrases
Parf Edhellen – A Sindarin, Quenya, Primitive Elvish, and Noldorin dictionary. It's my favourite website because it also compares old and new translations.
Parma Tyelpelassiva – Texts, songs, poems and grammar for Sindarin, Quenya, Andûnaic, Noldorin, etc.
Quenya pronunciation guide
RealElvish – Phrasebooks on Sindarin, Quenya, Andûnaic, etc. including naming traditions and lists for Elves, Rohirrim, Hobbits, Dwarves (if you need it for a fanfiction)
Sindarin.de – The first Sindarin website I frequented and where I learnt all the grammar. It's in German.
Sindarin phrasebook by slarmstrong – There are 3 parts of this phrasebook
Sindanórie – Site by Roman Rausch with articles on Telerin and word overlaps between the Elvish and real languages, poems, sound files, etc.
Tecendil – If you want to see what your name or others look like in Elvish script
Tyalie Tyelellieva – Website by Lisa Star but since geocities was taken down, it only exists in an archived form. It was last updated in 2004 but it also has a Khūzdul or Dwarvish Wordlist.
