Word building philology(language making)
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Hi @crazywriter !
I would be willing to help if you’d like. I’ve never done it for a book but my cousin and I have a secret langue we’ve used for like 6 years lol
I also love learning about historical languages and my goal is to me day know like 50 different languages.
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Thanks! I guess the one I’m working on is meant to flow off the tongue and sound….how do i say this- silver-y. Smooth I guess. I admit I’m influenced by Tolkien a ton so it may be influenced in style by sindarin elvish, but I will webs what I have soon
I’d love to help! I’m actually creating four different languages for my WIP right now, so I’ve got experience. I love creating grammar too – I think I’m influenced by how obnoxiously random English is and so it’s fun being able to create a system that actually makes sense. 🙂
"The darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming."
So after toiling for approximately the better part of a week, I have come up with the grand total of nine words, which translate out to key words in our English grammar.
Escalas- Blinding, brilliant light. Indescribable glory, irresistible beauty, awe inspiring greatness
Narcimus- Death, that which takes life, when I think of this word, I get the picture of a cold grey courtyard which tombstones in it, I guess the feeling of gnawing emptiness
Estubil- peace, a feeling of rest, contentment
Alryell- battlefield courage, the strength and will that overcomes fear, and demands nobility in crisis, to beleive in something so strongly that you would die for it
Ayrendel- majesty, kingship, honor, describing a ruler or position of prestige, title of leader of a nation
Nasriel-mountains
Estenros-hero, warrior, mighty soldier
Messimar- ancient times, days of yore, beginning
Eskar-love, the essence of sacrifice
I’ll be honest I am not a LOTR fan so I’ll think you’re genius no matter what you use XD
Just let me know how I can help!
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Have you thought up any grammar rules yet, Crazywriter? Or are you just kinda coming up with awesome sounding words like those ones to start with?
"The darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming."
So I have, and I am no philologist, but I guess what I’m doing with the language is trying to find major grammatical pieces, and to get the bulk of nouns, and adjectives made, and then actually get into the more complicated stuff, but I do have one thing. The sentence structure.
the sentence structure, which is conducive to shorter sentences is, Noun, Adjective, Verb. It gets sticky when we come to sentences with compound nouns or verbs, but I’m trying to stray from those at the moment
any advice is appreciated
That sounds awesome! I definitely want to hear more about your grammar structures and things like that before I start adding advice and things, but I think that sounds cool! I will need to contemplate this for a bit before I start telling you to improve something. Oftentimes, things like this are better left as they are lol.
"The darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming."
Cool
"The darkness is seldom complete, and even when it is, the pinprick of light is not long in coming."
So I understand everything except I have the same question as @denali-christianson are you just making up cool sounding words? Or do you have like a system you’re using?
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