Re: Semitic languages & Cultures

From: "Balazs Sudar" <conlang@...>

> Do you have any created cultures? I saw you wrote about calendars, but
have you invented creatures, history, places?
> And how have you invented names? Do you take all possible words and choose
the ones you like? I don't think so ;-) If there's someone who prefers
taking from other sources, what are they?

I mix fantasy and sci-fi, but my future world is more the latter, with
cyberpunk and "new dark age" ideas thrown in.

The Techians are a race of humanoids of possible alien origin that are
vaguely described as "elves", being more intelligent and magical than
humans, but lacking in physical strength. My only true conlang I'm working
on is Tech, since the other hominid race, a resurrection of early humans
(Neanderthals, basically), popularly (and pejoratively) known as Trolls,
speak a highly altered form of Latin, which I might change to something like
Lojban in the future. That's more of a controlled language rather than a
conlang. (Contlang?)

There may be a third humanoid race -- an amphibious mix of human, fish and
reptile, known tentatively as the Limns. If they get their own conlang,
it'll probably be something based loosely on Sino-Tibetan (or maybe
Sino-Caucasian): no huge consonant phonology like Tech, but instead a
"musical language", where the tones are based around a pentachordal scale
(do re mi fa sol), and the mode of the scale communicates an emotional
meaning or attitude that isn't expressed by words alone.

~Danny~