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Mar. 19th, 2015 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, as some of you may remember, from the age of about 13 to about the end of college, one of my intermittent hobbies was (not very good) conlanging. Which then got abandoned, as I was no longer interested in the culture I'd been building along with it, and also the language was kind of grammatically ridiculous and the writing system was ugly and it had fantasy apostrophe syndrome.
But! For about a year now, I've had a recurring mental story in a fantasy setting*, and one of my favorite ways to play with my mental stories is worldbuilding involving language. (The other is to make people kiss.) So I thought, why not actually do some language building? Better language building, with grammar that's interesting but not dumb and no fantasy apostrophes. And that's what I've been doing for the past few days. Right now, I've worked out the sounds the language can use, a little bit about grammar, and very scanty vocabulary.
And a writing system! You guys, I love alphabets and writing systems - I was super-excited about designing a new one and making it interesting and not hideous. I'm actually pretty proud of it, which is really the main reason I'm making this post.
The first line is a transliteration of my name and the second is a formal Seneshi greeting.
Alas, it does not work terribly well at all for writing in English, so I can't use it to take notes in boring meetings.
*It's an theocratic empire ruled by the incarnation of a conquering bull-god. The main character is one of the bull-god's chief lieutenants, who's semi-immortal, the head spy-master, and also a religious fanatic. I imagine that there are probably people combating the spread of the evil empire but they're not very effective and mostly end up dead in horrible ways.
Do you know, I can't remember the last time I had a recurring mental story about people who were, y'know, good? People who make up stories about heroes - what's that like?
But! For about a year now, I've had a recurring mental story in a fantasy setting*, and one of my favorite ways to play with my mental stories is worldbuilding involving language. (The other is to make people kiss.) So I thought, why not actually do some language building? Better language building, with grammar that's interesting but not dumb and no fantasy apostrophes. And that's what I've been doing for the past few days. Right now, I've worked out the sounds the language can use, a little bit about grammar, and very scanty vocabulary.
And a writing system! You guys, I love alphabets and writing systems - I was super-excited about designing a new one and making it interesting and not hideous. I'm actually pretty proud of it, which is really the main reason I'm making this post.
The first line is a transliteration of my name and the second is a formal Seneshi greeting.
Alas, it does not work terribly well at all for writing in English, so I can't use it to take notes in boring meetings.
*It's an theocratic empire ruled by the incarnation of a conquering bull-god. The main character is one of the bull-god's chief lieutenants, who's semi-immortal, the head spy-master, and also a religious fanatic. I imagine that there are probably people combating the spread of the evil empire but they're not very effective and mostly end up dead in horrible ways.
Do you know, I can't remember the last time I had a recurring mental story about people who were, y'know, good? People who make up stories about heroes - what's that like?
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Date: 2015-03-19 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-03-19 08:20 pm (UTC)(Ahahaha, I just realized I misspelled something up there. No one will ever know but me!)