Re: Linguistic Flavor

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From: Danny Wier <dawier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Linguistic Flavor


> From: Ciege Engine
>
> | How do you give a language a specific flavor? Im trying to give mine an
> outoodrs, kind of melodic tone, and ive noticed these things:
> | J's [Zh] give a kind of French or Arabic tone.
> | lopts of hard consonants usually is a rougher languages [lots of Ks in
> Tolkiens Khuzdul]
> | Lots of vowels give it an 'Elven' flavor, and elves are usually
outdoorsy
> types except this isnt quite the right direction I want. Im
> | wanting more of trying to get the feeling when you walk through a quient
> ancient forest, more than babbling brooks and singing
> | birds.
>
> Portuguese and Romanian are good examples of what you seem to be after.
Both
> languages have a lot of diphthongs, and both have /Z/ and /S/ as phonemes
quite
> a lot.
That's what I did for Carashan, with lots of falling diphthongs too. I think
Carashan sounds mediterranean, rather than forest-like. FWIW, my two
favourite clusters in Carashan are /Zw/ and /vw/, ans in "joalo" and
"vuelo".

Dan

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