5/30/2023 0 Comments Dwarf fortress language![]() The complete original sort has picked up in popularity in the recent decades, and especially recent years, with the likes of linguists Mark Okrand and David J. Even the fictional people who speak your conlang would find a few-hundred-glyph syllabary too much and simplify it. Often, it's a result of Write What You Know (or should that be Make What You Are Familiar With?), but it can also be a result of easiness or practicality: for alphabets you only need to make a glyph for every sound you have which should be quite small (less than 40), while a syllabary for example would require you to make a glyph for every syllable you have, which for any language that even remotely allows consonant clusters means you're looking at a few hundred glyphs. While Earth's writing can be allocated to five categories ( Alphabets with distinctive letters representing both vowels and consonants such as Greek, Latin, Korean, or Cyrillic Syllabaries which are similar to alphabets except each letter represents a syllable such as Japanese and Cherokee Abugidas which are similar to syllabaries except letters are formed from a base shape and modified according to what vowel comes after it such as Hindi Abjads which limit themselves only to consonants such as Arabic or Hebrew and Logographies featuring thousands of characters representing particular concepts rather than sounds such as Chinese or Old Egyptian), you'll be hard-pressed to find non-alphabets being used in any world of fiction. Note that while some writers go to great lengths in trying to make the languages they come up with seem as natural and realistic in terms of grammar and syntax as possible, this rarely affects the script. For the Nineteen Eighty-Four version, see Newspeak. A language derived from our own with limited change in the actual words, usually as an advanced form of Future Slang. ![]() May be loosely based on a foreign language, sometimes a dead language, but even then a hard translation. More likely to include a unique alphabet and special pronunciations. Very rare words, grammar, and pronunciation are made up entirely by the author. Not the same as foreign-sounding gibberish. May include special letters and phonemes that are not found in the native language, and require a special pronunciation guide to be spoken properly. The language is closely based on a language foreign to the audience, but only differing slightly (in either words or structure) from its derivative. ![]() It is a type of Indo-European Alien Language. In linguistics, this is called a relex or a relexification. ![]() Results in Conveniently Precise Translations. Realistically, this may be a secret language used solely to exclude others from the conversation. ![]() The author just substituted made-up words for the words of their native language, and to translate it back you just substitute them word-for-word back (even though this would produce a "Blind Idiot" Translation in any real language). The more dedicated Fandoms will often design languages - or at least large vocabulary lists - of otherwise unorganized languages. Since virtually any fictional language could theoretically be part of a larger language, this trope only applies to those fictional works that actually give us enough to say some things of our own. In Real Life, an auxiliary language or "auxlang" is a conlang intended for use by real-world groups. Gibberish does not count as a language, regardless of whether or not the other characters say they can understand it, and using a mere handful of alien words, even if you give them a translation, does not count either. This is where Translator Microbes are abandoned and a dictionary given to the reader. No, they did not just say that the Aliens/ Elves/ Bee People/Whatever speak a different language, they actually made up an exact vocabulary and grammar, one that can be translated into English (or equivalent). Conlang is short for "constructed language," such as a language the writer, their friend, or some other associate has made up for the purpose of using in a book or show. ![]()
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