Fear My Leet ConLang Skills, Bitches
Nov. 30th, 2004 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kent_allard_jrI decided to get serious about my fantasy world's language construction. (It's been a good way to distract myself from the election disaster.) My first step was to determine how the planet was settled, with humans starting from a central point and migrating outwards from there. You can see the map of the migrations here (800 KB). (Some of you might remember a similar map from the World of Greyhawk Gazetteer, which fascinated me a a kid.) Then I worked out the language families, based on these migrations and my knowledge of the world:
The solid lines indicate a direct descent; the dotted lines represent influence. (The grey, dashed lines in the second diagram indicate influence as well, but because they cross dotted lines, I gave them a different pattern.) Blue boxes are for living languages, while white boxes are for extinct languages. (Extinct among humans, anyway. The High Gods, from whom humans are descended, still speak Proto-Human.)
So far I've only established vocabularies for four languages -- Proto-Human, Old Jeraldic, Lyonian and Gehrian -- and I might have to redo the last two. The vast majority of them, I'm sure, will never get any vocabulary at all.
The solid lines indicate a direct descent; the dotted lines represent influence. (The grey, dashed lines in the second diagram indicate influence as well, but because they cross dotted lines, I gave them a different pattern.) Blue boxes are for living languages, while white boxes are for extinct languages. (Extinct among humans, anyway. The High Gods, from whom humans are descended, still speak Proto-Human.)
So far I've only established vocabularies for four languages -- Proto-Human, Old Jeraldic, Lyonian and Gehrian -- and I might have to redo the last two. The vast majority of them, I'm sure, will never get any vocabulary at all.
