From: "Thomas Leigh" <thomas@...>
Subject: Random Stuff in Celesiran Languages
> Joe Fatula wrote:
>
> > I've been working on one specific family of languages in my conworld
> lately,
>
> Is this world an "alternate Earth", or a completely different planet? If
the
> latter, what are the people like? Human/Humanoid?
It's a different planet, but like Earth. The purpose of the planet (or at
least one of them) is to provide a setting for a story I'm working on. I
don't want the readers to get stuck on understanding what the main creatures
are, so it's about humans. There are plenty of other, non-human things out
there as well, many of which have languages. (And a few of which have
conlangs!)
> Personally, Torantine is the one which most tickles my aesthetic fancy,
both
> in appearance and sound (going by the pronunciations you gave). I love the
> fact that you've used "ä" for /ai/ - that's very much like what my first
two
> languages, Choba and Osë, do: "ä" = /aj/, "ë" = /ej/, "ö" = /oj/. You're
the
> first other conlanger I've ever encountered who did that too! Great minds
> think alike, obviously. :)
Or perhaps they don't... The sounds spelled with an umlaut (two dots) in
Torantine were pronounced as simple long vowels in Old Torantine. By the
time of Classical Torantine (represented in my e-mail), some of them had
become diphthongs.
> Not sure what you mean by "plausible" - unless you're trying to create a
> language which would belong in an actual language family *here*, I suppose
> pretty much anything is plausible! I certainly wouldn't mind seeing more
of
> Torantine, though. Got any grammar you could show?
Sure do. I'll write some up in a message and post it. Anything in
particular you'd be interested in?