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Fantasy language for Tales of Morveria
4 years ago
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Thoughts, and various mad ramblings. So, I have been putting together this big tome of Lore because I'm hoping that in ??? time from now I'll have other writers and artists willingly contributing to Tales of Morveria. The Hitrosii are an elven race with a rather unique history and physical appearance. They also have a language that was (initially) simplified Russian, because I've spent over 2 years learning it. I'm proud to say that I read Cyrillic almost as easily as I read English. ^^
Anyway, this is the language initially spoken by the anthro/furry races as well. However, in order to make Russian sound more "flowery", I've shortened words, added the vowels "ii", "a" and "ai" to the endings of words and overall made it sound... Fanciful. Turns out, it's similar to Tamil, a classical language still spoken in parts of India and Sri Lanka.
Upon looking into it, I've discovered how beautiful it sounds (to me, anyway) and now I'm wondering; since I haven't posted the lore book, and the spoken dialogue isn't a crap-ton, should I retcon Hitrosii into basically being Tamil instead of modified Russian?! This would mean editing the posted stories plus a minor delay in writing the Hitrosii dictionary (which I unfortunately already finished) in the lore book.
I'm curious what you think. This is a question I posed to everyone who joined my Discord server. This invite link should work for the next 24 hours: https://discord.gg/863Xnx7E
Anyway, this is the language initially spoken by the anthro/furry races as well. However, in order to make Russian sound more "flowery", I've shortened words, added the vowels "ii", "a" and "ai" to the endings of words and overall made it sound... Fanciful. Turns out, it's similar to Tamil, a classical language still spoken in parts of India and Sri Lanka.
Upon looking into it, I've discovered how beautiful it sounds (to me, anyway) and now I'm wondering; since I haven't posted the lore book, and the spoken dialogue isn't a crap-ton, should I retcon Hitrosii into basically being Tamil instead of modified Russian?! This would mean editing the posted stories plus a minor delay in writing the Hitrosii dictionary (which I unfortunately already finished) in the lore book.
I'm curious what you think. This is a question I posed to everyone who joined my Discord server. This invite link should work for the next 24 hours: https://discord.gg/863Xnx7E
Dovahquill
~dovahquill
I don't think I've kept up on much of your posts of late, but as I am finally catching up on my FA backlog, it's really cool to hear you know Russian and are working with con-langs. I am in the process of developing my own setting, and naming-schemes/conlangs are my long-term to-do list.
Dovahquill
~dovahquill
Sorry network error caused a double post.
Mantrid_Brizon
~mantridbrizon
OP
It's all good. The only thing that stops me is the workload. I'm still considering the transition. If you decide to read any Tales of Morveria, at least it's recent, so it doesn't have 50 million chapters. XD
Dovahquill
~dovahquill
I don't think I've kept up on much of your posts of late, but as I am finally catching up on my FA backlog, it's really cool to hear you know Russian and are working with con-langs. I am in the process of developing my own setting, and naming-schemes/conlangs are my long-term to-do list.
