Showing posts with label Elfin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elfin. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Creating a fantasy language

Several popular fantasy languages exist in different fiction worlds.

Tolkien's Quenya, Valarin, Dwarven, Elfin, Black Speech, Mannish, Adunaic and several scripts are widely known as structures that underlay the very foundation of his Middle Earth writings.

The structures lead to a naming system that remains somewhat consistent throughout the series.

For Aioskoru, I wanted to use less known and more ancient languages as a basis.

For humans, I had heard of Proto-Indo European is the theoretical language spoken at the latest before 3500 BC. Older than than many languages. It is the common ancestor of Latin, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Armanian, Balto-Slavic, Anatolian, and Albanian with generally accepted confidence. I would find what I could about known words and then add my own vocabulary, based on the same families of languages. I would simplify my own grammar if the real grammar seemed too complex. In a nutshell, I would take what I could, and create what I needed.

For elves, I saw that Proto-Austronesian would be interesting. I know Filipino rather well, and so I could fill in the holes with my existing knowledge of one of the important Austronesian languages. It is a related cousin of Malaysian, Polynesian, and Oceanic languages.

For Orc and Goblin, I decided to corrupt the human into goblin and elf into orc languages.

In the future, I have plans of making the dwarf languages out of ancient Middle East language.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Elfin and Orcish amount of words so far

In no particular order, this is the 175 terms completed so far in English that I have made in Elfin and Orcish languages

that
here
this
not, no, none
all
child
bark (of a tree)
animal
husband
wife
to lie (as in a bed)
woman
to know
wind
feather
to swell
stone
night
leg
leaf
star
seed
fruit
to sit
hair
moon
sand
flower
ear
rope
man (human being)
to laugh
sharp (as a knife)
smoke
grass
black
guts
to burn
bone
lake
water
blood
earth
at
there
in
few
to stand
over there, yonder
to stab
other
two
horn
to hold
tree
I
when
we w/o you
you, you all, yall
you (singular)
we w/ you (inc)
where
tail
long
one
meat
and
if
right
left
to eat
fingernail
to dig
to bite
to scratch
stick
forest
year
small
to see
louse
how
worm
bad, evil
to fight
sky
to fly
cloud
dust
back
five
neck
to spit
to die
near
new
heavy
rotten
far
thick
wide
thin
short
narrow
white
dry
to live
big
man (adult male)
 to fear, to risk, to try
red
old
eye
heart
green
to split
to drink
to breathe
nose
what
to walk
to swim
to think
name
mouth
to turn (intransitive)
tooth
to kill
to hit
wing
to squeeze
ash
liver
day
hand
to flow
skin
to hunt
foot
salt
bird
some
egg
head
rain
root
many
to smell
fire
tongue (organ)
four
to suck
he/she/it
they
who
fish
fat (noun)
to count
to blow
snake
breast
father
mother
to cut
to sew
three
sea
belly
to sleep
to hear
knee
to come
to vomit
dog