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.

~DaW~


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