Hello!


I am working on a language, and if you want to you can watch my progress, and make suggestions or other comments, in this Google doc:
https://t.co/vHGCuRLYAP

Critique, I pray you!

It is called the P`a language.
The word P`a is the first letter of the alphabet of the language, but is also used to represent the whole language. As a word it means "strength," I believe. Every word is also a number, and p`a is the number fifteen.


Here is a picture of their alphabet:



The letters of the P`a script are made of seven unique components (with no more than three used in each letter). Many of the vowel letters are identical to some of the consonant letters, but since every word of more than one letter is alternating consonant and vowel, and always begins with a consonant, they can assume that every other letter in any word is a vowel, and the rest are consonants.

The script is written in columns from top to bottom, and the columns are written from left to right. Each column also has a left and right side (sometimes put along a vertical line), and the consonants are put on the left side, and the vowels are put on the right side of the column. This makes it even more easy to distinguish vowels from consonants.

However, in this picture of their alphabet, there are only consonants in the top three columns, and only vowels in the lower column; they make this exception when they show their alphabet.


Here is a video of pronouncing the consonants (the top three columns in the picture).




Here is a video of pronouncing the vowels (the bottom column in the picture).




If it is any easier, here are recordings without the video:



Please critique!

What are your favorite ideas? Were the picture and recordings helpful? Did anything confuse you? What are you most interested in finding out more about?

Does this remind you of any real languages, or made up languages? Or real or made up cultures, even if their languages are not similar?

Thank you all!

Ooh, cool stuff! Your script looks neat. I like. I'm curious...how do you use a language in your novel, once you've invented it?

Thank you Lady Calista!

Oh drat. Now that you mention the script, I see a mistake in the picture. I shall have to fix that. Some of the letters are in the wrong order.
Actually I would make it even if I did not use it, though of course I would use it. It helps me write and exercise creativity, and it makes me more curious about how languages work.

Have you read Les Miserables? It is translated from French, but a lot of quotes, sayings, phrases, songs, puns, and slang words or idioms, are given in French with their translations in brackets or footnotes. And of course there are all the names and place names. Really this is best done with a working language to explain it, and ensure consistency.

Also, you can use it as a scientific language, like Latin is for us. Tolkien actually had two Elvish tongues, Quenyan and Sindaran, and I believe he used Quenyan as a scientific language.

By the way, I have gotten into two syllable words now! Soon I will be working on defining the more obscure words, until I get a feel of the language. Then I will be defining the common words that give the language its specific look.

Wow, that's cool! I don't have the patience to put that much work into a language, but that's cool that you do. I really like it. Don't have much helpful to say, though. Sorry.