This is a blog run by @mushiroomoo and @starffledust to show off our long-running fantasy world building project, Minnegia!
Minnegia (pronounced mihn-NEH-juh) is the name of the Mortal Realm. It acts as a counterpart to the God Realm, which houses the apathetic and sometimes meddling creators of the universe
We seek to show the customs, culture, and languages of these worlds through the lives of characters that live in them. With some (read: many) shenanigans to ensue :)
MEET THE ADMINS
Haaaiiii guys this is Mushi (mushiroomoo is the account linked) and I'm one of the admins of this blog.
This is a worldbuilding project we've been making since middle school, so there is a lot that'll be discussed! I'll mostly be discussing fashion and the customs of Minnegia, along with posting short stories if I ever finish those. My posts will be tagged under #mushirambles so you'll know.
Heyo I'm Muffle (starffledust) and I'm the other admin! :)
I'm a writer and a conlanger by trade, so I'm interested in Minnegia's linguistics and character studies - especially the god-specific culture and how it literally created the world as it is. My posts will be under #mufflethoughts
Quick Porase (mortal language) lesson before I go: Gio ignbilio toi! - a formal welcome, literally "I host you as kin"
Tags below the break! These will be updated as needed
I felt this is an appropriate topic for my first post here - Porase, the mortal language of Minnegia!
Now, obviously there is more than one mortal language in the entire world of Minnegia, but unfortunately I only have so much time on my hands, so I have only created Porase, the dominant language of the continent where most of Mushi and I's stories take place
Porase comes in several flavors: (Old) Porase, Poraze (Middle Porase), Newer Poraze (New Porase), and Kórbór-Porase (the mortal-god pidgin)
If you saw our introduction post, congrats! You're already familiar with Porase! The two phrases I used there are variations of formal greetings in Old Porase: "Gio ignbilio toi" and "A te daizo mie laitdani"
As an introduction, I will be deconstructing these phrases from Old Porase as an excuse to talk a bit about how the language works. Details are below the break! If you dare
A te daizo mie laitdani!
approx. /.ˈa. .ˈtɜ. .ˈdaɪ.zoʊ. .ˈmjɜ. .laɪt.da.'ni./ or "ah teh DIE-zoe myeh light-dah-NEE"
This is a greeting between two people in Old Porase. It literally translates to "I give my blessings to you" and uses the informal you "te" instead of the formal "toi." This is mostly to keep a musicality to the phrase, but also because this is often a greeting given to peers, rather than to authority figures - something you'd say to a stranger or friend in the market place, yk?
Overtime, this greeting has been shortened in multiple ways. Here are the variants from most formal to least:
A te daizo mie laitdani - "I give my blessings to you"
A te, mie laitdani - "To you, my blessings"
Mie laitdani - "My blessings"
Laitdani - "Blessings" (can also be used as a farewell)
You can get an idea of the structure of the phrase from these translations so I won't bore you with that.
Gio ignbilio toi!
approx. /.ˈʒoʊ. .iŋ.'bil.joʊ. .ˈtɔɪ./ or "joe ing-BILL-yo toy"
This is a a formal welcome in Old Porase. It literally translates to "I host you" but the meaning is a bit more layered than that...
Ignbilir comes from the root word sibil, meaning family or kin. One who ignbile would be a lignbilri /.liŋ.'bil.ɾi./ or a host who opens their home to someone, usually for lodging (as opposed to hosting a singular event). The idea is that a lignbilri hosts their guest as they would a family member, making their home the guest's own.
This greeting can be familiarized by removing the 1st-person subject pronoun "gio" and using the familiar 2nd-person "te" instead of the formal "toi." Like this:
Ignbilio te! approx. /.ˈiŋ.'bil.joʊ. .ˈtɜ./ or "ing-BILL-yo teh"
These are not greetings given lightly, and it is only used as a way of welcoming someone into a personal place, usually the home, though sometimes one may mean a Tumblr blog for a fantasy world building project :)
And I'll leave it there for now. I know I didn't really get into much detail, but I hope some of this was interesting and served as a good introduction to the language
