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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:22 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:03 pm
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vampyre_smiles Well, here's my situation: Fact 1: Making conlangs for books. Fact2: Already have some character names that I really like in these langs. Fact 3: I'd like to derive most words in my base langs from words in Earth languages. (books not set on Earth though) Problem: The names I have don't seem to derive from any words I've found so far, and don't feel like using really obscure languages. Should I A) derive all the words from Earth langs and reconstruct new name, B) keep the names as is, and reconstruct around them, or C) Keep the names and just make something completely a priori?
What are the names? ^_^ (Sorry, I'm curious. x3)
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:40 pm
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Homurakitsune What are the names? ^_^ (Sorry, I'm curious. x3)
I'll give a few in no particular order:
Arith, Maringa, Solaith (three syllables), Daneth, Alix, Karuun, Nurrha (trilled r), Bethlemair, Takato, Anbyou (I could change this one), Leilom (three syllables).
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:51 am
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vampyre_smiles Homurakitsune What are the names? ^_^ (Sorry, I'm curious. x3) I'll give a few in no particular order: Arith, Maringa, Solaith (three syllables), Daneth, Alix, Karuun, Nurrha (trilled r), Bethlemair, Takato, Anbyou (I could change this one), Leilom (three syllables).
Well, it looks like you pronounce diphthongs by just pronouncing the vowels separately, so that's a start when it comes to phonetics, and I assume either "rr" or "rrh" makes the trilled "r" sound, right?
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:42 am
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Homurakitsune vampyre_smiles Homurakitsune What are the names? ^_^ (Sorry, I'm curious. x3) I'll give a few in no particular order: Arith, Maringa, Solaith (three syllables), Daneth, Alix, Karuun, Nurrha (trilled r), Bethlemair, Takato, Anbyou (I could change this one), Leilom (three syllables). Well, it looks like you pronounce diphthongs by just pronouncing the vowels separately, so that's a start when it comes to phonetics, and I assume either "rr" or "rrh" makes the trilled "r" sound, right?
The two names with diphthongs are from the same language, along with "Maringa".
"rr" is rolled r. So pronounced /nur:ha/ or about that.
Arith and Bethlemair are from the same language, which is related to the one that Daneth and Karuun come from. All the others are from seperate languages.
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:06 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:36 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:34 pm
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vampyre_smiles Well, here's a basic break down of what I was originally planning to do with this: - Take random words from langs I like, then regularize pronounciation. ="base" lang - create two langs from the base, one for the Etre (gods) and one for Vrendhalk (demons). - derive more languages from those, including borrowings, etc between langs. - derive meanings for the names I already have. But I might have to tweak the names to fit this, or tweak this to fit the names. lol
"Etre" = "to be" in French, was that planned? x3
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:39 pm
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Homurakitsune vampyre_smiles Well, here's a basic break down of what I was originally planning to do with this: - Take random words from langs I like, then regularize pronounciation. ="base" lang - create two langs from the base, one for the Etre (gods) and one for Vrendhalk (demons). - derive more languages from those, including borrowings, etc between langs. - derive meanings for the names I already have. But I might have to tweak the names to fit this, or tweak this to fit the names. lol "Etre" = "to be" in French, was that planned? x3
Not consciously, but I'd like to keep it really. It sort of "fits" for gods. You're the second to independantly point that out.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:52 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:34 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:09 am
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vampyre_smiles Homurakitsune I thought it was... wait, I'm the sencond to independently point it out? Did you have to tell everyone that besides me or something? confused No, you and one other person pointed it out, then other people saw the connection.
Oh! Ok. I do think you should keep it, though, I mush admit, it is fitting for "God". Is the pronounciation the same?
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Eccentric Iconoclast Captain
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:35 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:16 am
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Homurakitsune Oh! Ok. I do think you should keep it, though, I mush admit, it is fitting for "God". Is the pronounciation the same?
Yeah, I like having the /R/ in there. biggrin
Eccentric Iconoclast Not all words in a posteriori languages are based on existing languages...especially not names. Depending on how you make the language, I don't see why those couldn't fit in just fine.
That's the thing. I don't know how I'm going to make the languages. sweatdrop I just know that those names fit the "feel" I want for each of those languages. I guess some names could just be sounds their owners or the person that named them like. Others would have meanings within their langs. The former works best with the Etre and Vrendhalk, the latter more for mortal races.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 2:37 pm
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vampyre_smiles Homurakitsune Oh! Ok. I do think you should keep it, though, I mush admit, it is fitting for "God". Is the pronounciation the same? Yeah, I like having the /R/ in there. biggrin
Cool. (Although I don't really like the French "r". I prefer the German one.)
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