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I've been considering a language inspired by Turkish and other Oghuz languages, yet I'm unsure of how to properly form roots off of which to base some of the words I have in mind. Does it come down to concocting something that sounds nice, and going from there, or is there/can there be more rhyme or...

This is probably hopelessly belated, but even so...I want to try to help... It sounds like you kinda have a relatively free hand with your take on Danian...you could have it look like a creole of Celtic & Germanic (Germanic syntax and Celtic lexicon? equal amounts of Celtic and Germanic all sti...

This question ties into the languages of Tolkien—specifically that of Danian, or the language of the Green-elves of Ossiriand and the Greenwood in an earlier version of his legendarium. It's my desire to expand it a bit while endeavoring to maintain its Anglo-Saxon inspiration. Part of the trouble w...

criminalmammal wrote: ↑14 Jan 2023 05:59 There's Ultimate Ridley's Nióruais (Conworkshop, Reddit) as a pretty solidly good, if strange, example.

Interesting. Good to know. Though, what makes it strange, exactly?

I wasn't sure whether to make an entirely new topic for this question or to post in the Quick Questions thread. Nonetheless, I did wonder whether someone here has attempted to make a language based on a hypothetical scenario where the Celtic languages found their way to Scandinavia in a sort of reve...

So I had a run through Wiktionary's list of Proto-Indo-European roots, and of the 650 it has, I found two that end in *d (in the standard reconstruction) that have derived forms with an *m -initial suffix that then make their way down to Proto-Germanic: PIE *h₁wed- (dowry) > *h₁wed-mō > PG *wetmô (...

I've mentioned this topic once before, but for those who don't know I've been endeavoring to create a language for the Windan tribe of Avari from Tolkien's legendarium. My progress has been slow but not entirely wasted. Yet I've reached a snag in that I'm not sure how to resolve a specific consonant...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑03 Dec 2022 21:43 I would definitely be interested in Baltic Elvish.

As would I. I'm not sure which of the known tribes would fit the bill, but I've seen attempts to create a distinctly "northern" Avarin dialect. Not one that would be Baltic in nature, but still different from what we're familiar with.

Anyway, I know I didn't really answer your question, but maybe I'd say that you did, in a round-about way. If nothing else, you've given me inspiration off of which to base the language itself. C: the kw- has weakened to hw-, as in Germanic, and then in turn to w-, as in (most) modern English. This...

This is my first time endeavoring to develop a constructed language, and I was wonder what, if anything, I might be able to do to aid the process. As I'm looking specifically to develop a language for Windan tribe of Avari elves. My main problem is I'm not sure what language, if any, Tolkien might h...