#making languages

[thekeyten]

Languages of Albatross

Hello! I’ve finally launched four sideblogs for the primary langauges (aside from English/Common/Knighish) featured in my WIP Albatross! If you’d like to take a look these are the urls! (desktop version only for now for the actual dictionary, but words will be selected from each to feature as dedicated posts on the mobile version)

@kitscoty

@cayucandictionary

@priandictionary

@harrandictionary

[mindpaintingless]

Back on that making a language grind

I've scrapped the old idea (for now) and imma do one based on the west Germanic languages

Im working on the pronouns rn

Imma implement a cool way of doin the genitive that I came up with

[thegoldenseries]

How I Made a Fantasy Language (Easy)

As we all know, I'm sort of a worldbuilding nut, so of course, I was going to make my own languages! The Dwarven language in Golden Mountain (Otazvan) is very simple to make and write in, so I thought I'd share how I did it.

First, you'll need the list of phonetic sounds for whatever language you're translating from. Otazvan's root language is English, but I have plans to make more complex languages that aren't English-based.

Next, you need to decide what you want your language to sound like. If you're not sure, come up with some names that might come from that language, see what's similar about them. For example, Otazvan is a pretty harsh-sounding language, whereas an elven language might sound smoother on the tongue. It depends on what you want.

Assign each phonetic sound to a new sound. I made a table with English sounds on one side and Otazvan sounds on the other. Since I wanted Otazvan to sound harsh, I added a lot of z, v and t sounds to break the words up. For example, the "ing" sound becomes "nak" and the "ar" sound becomes "ax".

Once you're done, you can translate from English to your new language by breaking down the phonetic pronunciation of your root language word and translating sound-by-sound to a new language. Like this:

Hello

=huh-eh-ll-o

=uk-eh-zuh-oi

=ukezoi

And you're done! Don't be afraid to spell things differently than they're pronounced, but I wouldn't recommend doing this too often, since the reader won't get to hear it spoken and will pronounce it as it is spelled. You can even add your own grammar rules, etc. to really make the language your own!

[winkingrain]

One day off and I’m already trying two learn to new languages and invent a third

[iftheminionswenttocollege-blog]

cateish

Kates *makes fart noise with tongue* hahahaha