Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Writing Systems of Grendaw

The languages of Mansoar are written in many ways. The Elvin languages use an alphabet with many straight lines and few curves. There are no lower case letter. Examples are included in Figure A. The Dwarvic languages are not as standardized. The Dwarves use the Same system as the Elves while the Frostlings use a pictographs. Each one stands for a different word or idea. See figure B. And those Gnomes use a weird alphabet that connects each letter. And it is written left to right. And it has capital and lower case. See figure C. Not surprisingly only some of the Goblinoid Languages have a writing system. These are the Hordes, the Kobolds, and the Sea Goblins. All the other languages are unattested (meaning no form of writing is found). Though the Orcs seem to communicate over long distances with smoke signals and hides covered in Dots. But I have not deciphered either one so I say they do not have a writing system. The Hordes use a vowel less writing system. You have to figure out where vowels go. this makes it annoying to decipher. An example of how annoying are the High Goblinish words melkin (fire) and milken (water). They look the same when written out in Hordish: mlkn and mlkn. For that reason Low Goblinish uses a slightly modified system where an accent is placed over the letter after the vowel. There is no lower case. See Figure D. Kobold has no cases and uses different arrangements of circles/ovals to represent syllables. See Figure E. Now the Sea Goblins once again confuse everybody, by having an extremely weird alphabet. It just Attested to their other worldliness. And it has cases. An example is F=g and R=u. Very wired, is it not. Despite all of the Lizardmen speaking different languages, they all use the same writing system. It is an alphabet, with cases. It also is weird like Gnomish Script, being written left to right. There are occasionally pictographs used to make common words easier to write. See Figure F. All the Fanatic Languages use the same writing system too. It is a pictographic writing system, like the Frostlings. But the Fanatic pictographs are much simpler and more abstract. See figure G. Finaly there are all those Isolates. Luckily none of them have a writing system, as far as we know. Well the Darkanth are too mysterious for us to know about their writing and the Dragons can't write, due to thier size. The Vibrobugs have no language. But the Tirap communicate only in pictures and can lazer blast them into object, complete in color. So I guess they have a writing system. And while the Mountain Men don't have a writing System they do have a sophisticated form of communication using string, beads, knots and color, that is too hard to explain. Figure AFigure BFigure C
Figure DFigure E
Figure F
Figure G

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Languages of Grendaw

In the Vlandstar Epic, it seems that everyone speaks the same language, English. This is not the case. It seems where many people speak many different languages, the language that will be presented as English will be the person who's point of view it is. The language groups of Manosar are Elvin, Goblish, Dwarvic, Lizeese, Nomad, and Isolate. Now for a short analysis of each group: (the Language names are in the English translation)
Elvin Languages-
Vlandstarian- Spoken by Vlandstar, Zipz and the Pox Plains. Sounds like a cross of Spanish and Romanian.
Eastron- Spoken in the Elvin Kingdoms. Sort of Like French+Italian.
Northron- Spoken in Murton. It is weird because it sounds like a mixture of Galician and Finnish.

Dwarvic-
Dwarven- Spoken in the Dark mountains by the Dwarves. Kind of like German.
Frostling- Spoken in Murton and in the Realms of the Frostlings. It is like Icelandic or Faroese
Gnomish (this will be written in Roman Script Gnomish)- Beznezin ez spocken en Vandstare Propear. Et ez zumut yike Eenyish.

Goblish-
The differnet tribes speak different languages. The most important ones are:
High Goblish- Spoken in the highlands of Murton by the Green, Red and Grey Hordes. Is like Czech.
Low Goblish- Spoken in the Plains of Murton by the Blue, Black, Brown, Yellow, and Pony hordes. Is like Slovak.
Kobold- Spoken in the tunnels of the mountains of Murton and Alswan. It is like Polish.
Orca- Spoken by the Sea Goblins. It is like Russian.
Orcaine- Spoken By the Murton Orcs. It is similar to Serbian.
Orcam- Spoken by the Jinkath Orcs. It sounds like Bosnian.
Orcath- Spoken by the Gorbath Orcs. It sounds like Croatian.
Trolite- Spoken in the Trollands of Murton. It is compared to Bulgarian.
Orgrish- Spoken in Northern Alswan. It is like Belarusian
Andinite- SPoken in Southern Alswan. It can be compared to Ukrainian.

Lizeese- Each Species has its own language. The three most important will be mentioned.
Deserteese- Spoken in the Deserts of Alswan. It is like Turkish.
Moutaineese- SPoken in the Mountains of Alswan. It is like Mongolian.
Jungeese- SPoken in the Jungles of Alswan. It is like Turkmen.

Nomad- The languges of the desert. Human tongues. Again most common languages.
Altic- Spoken in the Western Desert. Like Sanskrit.
Mecha- Spoken in the River Valleys and the Coasts. Like Urdu.
Dunpan- Spoken in the Mid-Desert. Like Farsi.
Petka- Spoken in the Eastern Desert. Like Kurdish.

Isolate-
Dragon- A language of Grunts, whistles, roars, squeels, squeeks, growls, and other sounds.
Darkanth- Spoken in lands unknown. Carried to Grendaw by the Darkanth. Like Mohawk.
Tirap- Spoken by the Tirap Traders. Not actually spoken as it is picture appearing above your head.
Methar- Spoken by the Great Mountain People of the Mountains. Like Quechua.
Vibrobug- Spoken by the Vibrobugs. Or it is assumed since the Vibrobugs don't talk.
Much Much More. Next up, writing systems.