CONLANG IS DIFFICULT

[yukie]

So I'm actually trying to work on the dang fae language Vicky and Jer and co. speak and it's fucking hard XD;;

It's quite obvious I'm taking influence principally from Greek and Latin for this as well as the Romance languages in this but there's liable to be some Sanskrit or even Gaelic sprinkled in later. :B

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RULES THUS FAR

*Fae language has emotional modifiers at the start of a sentence. This is because empathy is, for them, pretty much a constant, and because when someone is distant and you can't feel his or her emotion you need a way to get it across. Hence the modifiers. Plus - well, why should someone who's not empathetic not be able to communicate?

*The vowel sounds are like French or Japanese. An 'h' after a vowel is pronounced (breathed h); 'a' and 'ah' do not sound the same. N is its own noise.

*There are apostrophes, yes. I'm still working out where these all go. It seems they tend to fall between an N and L and R, and a following vowel.

*C is a hard K or CH sound; G is always hard.

*Sentence structure goes [subject] [emotion + emotion modifiers] [verb] [object]. I think. I'm probably mislabeling. Either way, a sample sentence, Vicky's calling out, would go "Ya iram chora dicé-millo annen, tia, on'ya per nadari intira callo." Translated literally, it's "I sing ten-thousand years of rage, you the person for whom [there is] nothing in [my] heart,"

Ya = pronoun; I/me/self
Iram = anger.
Chora = Sing or speak; fae don't differentiate.
Dicé-millo = Ten thousand. Numbers work like Japanese.
Annen = Years. Singular is also annen.
Tia = you; Fae isn't gendered like a Romance language, by the way, though there exist words for
he', 'she', and 'zie'.
On'ya = Person. This is made up of two words. Ono, one; and ya, self.
Per = for.
Nadari = nothing.
Intira = Within.
Callo = heart, obviously.

BASIC VOCAB I MANAGED TO PLINK TOGETHER
i/me/self = Ya
You = Tia
He/him, she/her, zie/zir = Seia
They (always gender neutral) = Seias
We = Yas
You (plural) = Tias

One = ono
Two = dua
Three = tri
Four = quarta
Five = quin
Six = secta
Seven = septa
Eight = ochta
Nine = nové
Ten = dicé
Eleven = dicé-ono; numbers work like Japanese. So twenty is dua-dicé, and so on.
Hundred = centa
Thousand = millo

White = Albé
Black = Nerro
Red = Rhua
Blue = Azal
Green = Verda
Yellow = Crocé
Orange = Tienna
Violet = Iola
Silver = Arjen
Gold = Auren

Day = Dia
Night = Nosa
Sun = Solos
Moon = Eluna
Stars = Estela
Brother = Frara
Sister = Sora
Yes = ayé
No = No (hee)
Maybe =
'Mu' or 'doch' = Neh (yeah, really; this one is for the 'have you stopped kicking my garage door yet' type questions.)

Life = Viah
Death = Morr
Sleep = Dormia
Waking = Revia

Love = Aimo
Hope = Spera
Heart = Callo
Soul = Alm
Mind = Menté
God = Deoh
Goddess = Deah
Great = Maja
Big = Grenda
Little = Pitri
Joy = Joia
Sorrow = Trista
Anger = Iram
Good = Benne
Bad = Malo
Name = Nomé

Earth = Gea
Air = Aeré
Fire = Igné
Water = Naia
Tree = Arba


...Yeah it still needs a lot of work and a lot is missing, but I'm putting all this down here for now just to put it somewhere coherent and readable.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

omg I love you and I LOVE THIS. I can't wait to see more. I just adore it when people weave cultures and things like that int their fic verses. Bravo

[yukie]

EEEE :D

I'm so glad XD I'm still working on this. Some of it may change as I go but I'm all HAPPY XD

[novel_machinist]

I can't wait to see it, this sort of thing is really fun in that pick up the last book when the series is over sorta way, you know? That book that fills in all the blanks for you.

[yukie]

I have other cultural stuff too XD; like traditional clothing and things - I need to DRAW IT aaa