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Re: Translation Project! (was Re: Let the hammer fall!)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, January 25, 2001, 14:21
En réponse à Eruanno none <eruanno@...>:

> > I would like some background on everyone's language, like who would have > used it? Where? and When? > > Just interested ^_^ >
You do well :) . Moten is the language of one person, my kind of alter-ego :) |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. /t_sela jemufan atlinan sid_ji/. He is an orphan, found in some Belgian field 18 years ago, speaking a language related to no other known language in the world. Hence it is unknown whoever speaks (or spoke) this language, and whether it is the language of a civilisation or not... Astou is the language of the Dhastem, that's to say the Atlantes on a parallel Earth in a parallel universe. It is the literary language (equivalent of Classical Latin, but with more everyday use) of this very advanced civilisation which collapsed millenia ago, due to a deadly war with another very advanced civilisation. Reman is a Romance language, spoken seemingly by an isolated group of people somewhere on Earth (I would say somewhere in Middle East, but I have no idea really). Notya is the language of a secret society of people who have in common the control of the No, a kind of spiritual energy, kind of a magic, allowing also supernatural powers, but different from magic as Western people imagine it. It is very secret, so my knowledge of it is quite sketchy :) . Azak has no known people speaking it. Chasmäöcho is my own personal language, so the only person speaking it is (or at least should be :) ) me. Tj'a-ts'a~n is the language of extraterrestrial beings living on a planet far away from here (maybe even in another galaxy). They are humanoid, but with blue skin and four fingers per hand (and only three toes per foot). They speak a very difficult language for us humans, featuring some nearly unpronounceable sounds or clusters (especially the nasalised stops, which can be approximated as prenasalised stops followed by a nasal release, but are not really that either), both consonnant and vowel harmony and a difficult syntax. My goal is to describe their evolution for millenia, so they will pass through all levels of modernity and all kinds of social systems. Itakian is a language probably spoken by some tribes living in a South Hemisphere island in Ill Bethisad, but I cannot tell much more about, knowing nothing more :) . O is not known to be spoken by any people (but well, I don't remember devising it though I found notes with my handwriting about it :) ). Narbonósc is a Romance language spoken in an alternate timeline Earth (not Ill Bethisad though) where it is not the North but the South of France which gained control on the other part of France, after the fall of the Roman Empire. Thus it is French if French had been a langue d'oc instead of a langue d'oil. Wow! ten langs?! I didn't remember devising so much ;) . Christophe.