#nabooro

[nabooro]

hi! two questions. one, can i use nabooro in my fic (with credit ofc). two, how would someone say, ‘i love you too’?

hey, and thanks for the question! first: yeah totally - and i'd love to see the fic as well! i'm so thrilled people like it enough for that!

second: 'i love you' is 'Né dé folcan' - and the response ('i love you too') would be 'Né dé folcan mal'!

[yellow-faerie]

The tale of the Fisher's Daughter, a fairytale from Naboo.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Original Characters Additional Tags: Planet Naboo (Star Wars), Naboo Culture & Customs (Star Wars), Naboo Religion (Star Wars), Children's Stories Series: Part 2 of Myths and Legends Throughout the Galaxy Summary: Ri cu nanké soc Veshinc, co sés fuâd re roje néimâd Târek: in the time of the Six, there was a girl named Târek.

So I wrote a thing! This is a Naboo tale based off @nabooro‘s working conlang: I meant to post it almost half a year ago, and then I couldn’t find a framing device that I liked and then I completely forgot about it lol

But here it is now! A fairytale on Naboo, introducing young children to the idea of death and loss, and the traditions surrounding it: originating from around the time of the last civil war, nearly five hundred years before the clone wars, this particular tale is thought to come from a seashore community in Danank before spreading into more widespread popularity after peace was declared.

[nabooro]

Oh I'm sorry to hear it's not being continued anymore! But I am glad that you're still up for answering questions haha - let me start with something fairly simple in regards to grammar/vocab:

So I've been thinking about numbers - I know that you have the cardinal numbers in your dictionary, but I was wondering if you have any other for ordinal numbers, or even more specific as multiplicative or distributive numbers? And on a more grammar note, are there any specific rules you have when having multiple of something in a sentence?

I was also wondering if you'd ever considered using a different base system to base 10? That's the maths nerd in me being determined to make life difficult for myself when conlanging as well, but I do this Base 12 would suit the Naboo quite well (what with The Six being their major deities and all)

If that made any sense at all haha I would love to hear your thoughts!

Hello, thanks for your question!

Regarding numbers: I do have ordinal numbers and adverb forms for them, but not multiplicative or distributive numbers - to say "once" you would say "one time," and so on, and similarly for multiplicatives. "Doubly" is "two-fold", triply is "three-fold", etc. I'll get to the vocabulary for all that in a bit!

Ordinals form from adjectival forms of the cardinals, so you have, in the order 'two - second - secondly':

kân - kanâ - kanâfe

hâ - hâi - hâfe

téb - tébi - tébife

rén - réni - rénife

sén - séni - sénife

éshe - éshé - éshéfe

hoo - hubi - hubife

mon - monâ - monâfe

thare- tharé - tharéfe

nâ - nâi - nâfe

"First" can also be translated to monâik meaning "the beginning one," (no relation to #8) kind of. Usage depends on context; monâik implies a value of being the first, whereas the ordinal number is just about numeral value or maybe physical position.

To say [x times] you would append the numbers to mo, which means iteration. hâ mo, literally means "two time[s]".

For doubly, triply, etc, you append the numbers to gu. téb gu would mean "triply," but not "thrice".

Regarding the numeral system; I really love base 12 myself, but I did conceive the language as a base 10 language, partly for convenience with all the star wars material, and I have also done all my calculations (ask me what calculations) in base 10, and don't want to convert. Which is maybe not the best reason for it, but it's what I have!

Hope this helped!

[nabooro]

Dé sorud! It's been a while since I've been about the star wars fandom, but coming back, I had to return to you conlang while writing for Padmé's nâdune! I had a question (and I might very well have some more as I go but I'll send those as separate asks haha) but did you have any headcanons/ideas about the monarch's name?

By which I mean, it appears to me as if Padmé chose the name Amidala under which to run - are the names chosen based on historical figures/myths (like Veruna)? Or are they created before someone starts running for the throne? Or is it more common for someone to run with their actual surname attached?

(And if they do have translations, have you created any for some of the canon kings/queens that we know of?)

Thank you!

Dé sorud! Thank you for your questions, delighted that you're enjoying my little conlang!

Regarding the monarch's title - it depends entirely on the monarch, on the emphasis they want to place on themselves as a monarch, what it is that they represent as a ruler. They can be based on historical figures, though no one would take the name of one of the Six directly, more like, 'Shiraya's Chosen' or something on those lines. People also repeat monarch names - taking on the same one as a past monarch to indicate their similarity or honour them.

The exception is any of the Verunas, an ancient noble family that claim descent from Dod Veruna and are distantly related to the ancient hereditary monarchs of Naboo. They can keep their name. Because they're the Verunas.

It wouldn't be common practice to run with a monarch name - that implies a sense of victory, and if you lose, that monarch name is now associated with loss - so more likely people run with their original surname, or maybe are just referred to as [Candidate] Padmé and so on.

I have not actually created any for the canon kings and queens that we know, mostly because we don't really know a lot about them, and it's not been my focus... except that I HC that Sanandrassa is a monarch name, not her actual name, meaning 'a prayer' (note it is not the actual word for 'prayer', more a figurative way to say it).

[yellow-faerie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I have been absolutely enchanted by @nabooro's worldbuilding and conlang since I first came across it over a year ago; having recently got back into Star Wars (and, as always, coming back to my favourite planet and group of characters) I found myself wanting to write something focusing on Sabé, as I see her using this worldbuilding and conland that was created so lovingly.

This is slightly inspired by the Queen's books, which I read and enjoyed, but as I disagree with a lot of the direction the books went (either due to my own attachment to certain Legends aspects or due to the fact I just didn't like them) this fic is definitely not compliant to their canon.

I have also taken a lot of inspiration from a host of different fanfics I've read over the years, so if you see something familiar, there is a good chance I was inspired by it but didn't realise!

Anyway, this has been a lot of fun to write so I'm looking forward to sharing it :)

[nabooro]

Not sure if you're still actively working on this, but I am so enamoured with all of it! I wanted to ask - do you have any ideas about sign languages on Naboo?

Oh, thank you so much! I haven't been super actively working on this recently, but I'm always interested in thinking of new aspects of it!

I can't say I've developed any solid ideas on the sign languages of Naboo, but I have some thoughts on what they may be based in.

To start off on a slight tangent, I have some complicated thoughts re: disability in the GFFA, which gets a pretty weird treatment through the series in part because we have so many people with limbs chopped off lol. Obviously a galaxy with species with vast differences in mobility would need to have mobility and communication aids. So first I guess, is there technology that could act as a substitute for non-verbal forms of communication by 'interpreting'? Star Wars has all kinds of weird technology.

On the flip side: should there be? Both in terms of worldbuilding and in-universe.

That little tangent out of the way - I would say there is probably a primary school of sign language that has been developed intentionally over time and is fairly well-established, though I do wonder about its use and the politics of that - but I don't know enough about sign language myself to speak to its details.

Instead, what I can do you for: a couple of parallel developments in sign language (or equivalent) on Naboo!

One of the major resources in the south-west of Naboo, esp. in the swamps of the Danank region, involves a lot of mining that it is pretty dangerous to do things like "inhale" around. I imagine that mining communities there + people who just live in the vicinity of the swamps have developed their own sign languages.

The same I think may be true for the highly industrial sectors in Halân. Halân I think is one of the areas in Naboo which has a fairly distinct language (dialect, maybe) because of its relative remoteness, so this may reflect in its sign system as well.

And also in the more remote spaces of Arind, particularly in the forests that were known for their shrines and Shiraya followers who were on oaths of silence (either temporary or permanent), I think they would have developed fairly elaborate communication systems involving their fans and staffs (which form a significant part of the material aspect of their faith), which probably survives in somewhat relic-ised form in religious performance and so on.

Hope this was kind of what you were looking for, and thank you for the interesting question!

[nabooro]

"truly, deeply," or, depth and Naboo's core

In English, and a number of other languages, we understand depth as a good thing. Depth is understood as complexity and profundity: to dive deep is to look for great detail, to feel deeply is to have strength of feeling, deep colours are highly saturated, depth of thought is something having much significance.

Naboo the planet differs from most rocky planets in that it apparently has a hollow core populated with sea monsters. Our understanding of the sea, the ocean, the core and depth are fundamentally different to that of the Naboo, because for them the primary association with the deep is that of being eaten by giant sea monsters (bodré).

So, onto the concept of depth. The primary association in Nabooro with depth is the idea of danger. Depth is complex, but it is not profound: it's more like the metaphor of a black well. What lies in the deep is darkness and hunger and probably also certain depth. "To dive" at all is to do something dangerous; "to dive deep" is to risk death. To do anything "deeply" is to do it with an element of danger, which is also understood as despite the possible consequence, or accepting of the danger involved.

Of course, that isn't to say Nabooro doesn't have a word to convey the sense of profundity or sense of from-the-heart that is conveyed in the English "deeply." They do, and it would be translated into English as "deep" or "profound" because of linguistic redundancy, though what it actually means is "rooted."

So the question is: when Padmé says she truly, deeply loves Anakin, which one is it that she means? I don't think somebody who has grown up speaking and learning in Nabooro would translate carelessly into Basic, because there would be a discomfort with the concept of depth even when she speaks in Basic — it's easy to learn a new vocabulary, and far more difficult to unlearn the metaphors that are implied below the language.

I think, considering their conversations about how they can't allow themselves to fall in love ("it would ruin our lives,") it's the literal understanding of deeply in Nabooro. But I also think that this is meant to be understood as having come from her heart.

Following what I assume is the intended meaning, she would say, in Nabooro: "Né dé folcan. Oshinéfe. Saméfe." [I love you. Truly. Profoundly.]

Done with a more literal sense of "deeply" in Nabooro, and in context, she might be saying: "Né dé folcan. Oshinéfe. Tânshife." [I love you. Truly. Dangerously.]

But my personal preference gets rid of the 'truly' entirely, at least in the semiotic sense of being correct or honest, instead replacing it with the sense of profundity — she loves him from her roots, i.e. from the heart of her, from her truth — and maintaining the sense of danger and acceptance of risk in the 'deeply', giving us: "Né dé folcan. Saméfe. Tânshife."

That is: I love you, from my roots, and from my hollow core. I love you, from the part of me that holds me in place, and the part of me that prepares me to fall. That is, put in Basic: I truly, deeply, love you.

[nabooro]

Names on Naboo

Something fun: names on Naboo! I love populating my worlds with OCs and I like having names that either sound similar to regular names but suited to fit the language (i.e. Isabella, Isabeau, Isobel) and names that have the same meaning but sound totally different.

So, some [non-canon] names on Naboo, definitely not an exhaustive list though, and their meanings:

Note: For names I have not kept to my own spelling rules, because they're names and they look prettier this way and also that's exactly how Naberrie works. Most are the exact same, but if a name ends with an "e", it is actually an extension of the previous vowel, i.e. Câlude would be spelled "câlood" and pronounced /ca:lu:d/ not /ca:lʊde/.

Adnéat - unisex name, meaning "born of the néâchin tree", more common in the rural parts of the Nirerd region, Hill Country (Ewan)

Câlod - male name, meaning "Graciousness of God" (John)

Câlude - female name, equivalent of Câlod (Jane)

Cooreeb, Cooreev - female name, for the cooreeb flower

Coshid, Coshan - male name, meaning "resolute protector" (William)

Dérun - unisex name, meaning "child of the moon"

Enshind, Enshid - female name, meaning "to excel", etymologically unrelated to Enshadu, but often associated with her all the same (Emily, Emilia)

Filla - female name, meaning "beloved" (Mary)

Gochan, Goshan - unisex name, meaning "famous warrior" (Louis[a])

Gorin / Gorine - unisex name, though female as Gorine, meaning "free man" (Charles / Caroline)

Goré, Gorrie, Gorne, Goren - shortened versions of Gorin/e, with Goré mainly female and Goren mainly male (Charlie / Carrie)

Gyâtar, Gyâtak - male name, meaning "victory of the people." Especially common with followers of Zenda. (Nicholas)

Hodâch, Hodâsh, Hodré - female name, meaning "river"

Ishees, Yshees, Yshese - female name, "ruler of the world"

Jisom, Jisomb, Jisombe - male name, deriving from a patronymic of Vânes, as was common practice in the Shisén and Danank regions, aka the Headlands and Low Country (Harrison)

Jiyoon - female name, meaning "moon's daughter"

Kiléa, Leia - female name, meaning "undying, immortal"

Kosâb, Cosâb - male name, meaning "bright son" - but brightness associated with the moon, not the sun

Massât - male name, old-fashioned, meaning "weapon of God" (Oscar)

Medsen, Medsin, Mezin, Medsine - male name, but growing common for girls as medsin / medsine, meaning "dedicated to Zenda" (Mark)

Midsom, Mizom - male name but growing common for girls as Midsom, meaning "hay field" (Hayden)

Nakâtu, Nakté, Nokart - female name, meaning "birth of God", but very old-fashioned as Nakâtu. (aka Natalie)

Namise - female name, meaning "home ruler" (Harriet, Henrietta)

Namun - male name, popularised by a famous artist from a few centuries before present time, means "worker of the earth" (George)

Nasâsh, Nacysh - male name, meaning "ruler of the world" (Donald / Domhnall)

Niki, Nikki - female name, meaning "queen"

Oréd - female name, meaning "orédfil flower"; more old-fashioned versions include Rédfil, Rédfilla. (Daisy).

Orren, Odnen - male names, though sometimes given to women as a nickname for other similar names - shortened versions of Ornesun / Odnesun, meaning "protector of men" (Alexander / Alex / Alec)

Râdmen, Radmé - female name, equivalent of Rudmân (is Edwina a f. version of Edward ?)

Rodmin - male name, meaning "worker of earth" (Edward)

Rosâte - female name, meaning "wealth [given by] God" (Jessica)

Ryaré, Riyaré - female name, meaning "sweet flower"

Shineke - female name, meaning "to strive, to aim for" (Emily, Amy)

Sonn - male name, very common, meaning "born of the earth" (Adam)

Sorun - male name, very popular, meaning "bringer of light" - one of the many moon-based names on Naboo, especially popular for children born on one or more full moons (Lucas)

Soluke, Luke - unisex as Soluke but mainly male as Luke - "just, righteous" (Justin)

Soo - unisex name, meaning "river"

Thâcon - male name, meaning "god will give" (~Joseph)

Tsadun - female version of Sonn (not Eve lol)

Vânem, Vânes - male name, shortened from the out-of-use Vânemes, meaning "home ruler" (Henry, Harry)

Yeji - female name, meaning "pure" (Catherine)