How about giving it an Old English feel - I find that
ancient and mysterious.
James
--- Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote: > 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.
>
> ~DaW~
>
>
>
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