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Author:  Elanhil [ July 9th, 2010, 4:53 am ]
Post subject:  The Language of the desert tribes
This is a small bit of the language of the desert tribes:

No passado existio um menino muito pequeno que nassiou na terra oeste’ Ele morou com a mamae dele e ele so tinha uma arma a espada do pai dele’

Translated this means,
A long time ago there was a very small boy who was born in the western lands. He lived with his mother and only had one weapon, his father’s sword.

I don't know how fonts work, but this is a font I made for my computer, so it may not work for the rest of the world.

Here is the whole alphabet, the characters' sounds are based on Latin.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ July 15th, 2010, 11:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Um, fonts only show up on your own computer. You'd have to upload it as a picture or use @font-face (but that's pretty complicated and I don't think it does custom fonts. Go here or here for more info though I don't know how you'd do this in BBCode)

Anyways, since I can read your script since it's not the script but instead the normal latin alphabet, it looks pretty much just like Portuguese to me, with a few changes. :) Are the desert tribes Brasilian? :D

What book is this for? Where are these desert tribes located? Do you have a map or something that you could show me? My interest is piqued. Plus, I live with you, I should definitely see this stuff before everyone else :D Just kidding.

eruheran
Author:  Elanhil [ July 16th, 2010, 11:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Yeah, sorry. This was pretty much a code. The language we made together gave me some very good insight on how to make a language. BTW can you give me that document that we were using?
Author:  Xyno Xyaxis [ October 12th, 2010, 5:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Impressive language. I'm no linguist or anything, but the average Joe can actually pronounce this.

I also notice some Latin in your language. This is not a bad thing. (i.e. terra, etc.)
Author:  Elanhil [ October 12th, 2010, 8:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Well, actually, this is a really bad language. It was one of my first fantasy projects and since I have made better languages. This was only modified Portuguese.
Author:  Xyno Xyaxis [ October 13th, 2010, 4:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Fantasy languages don't have to be completely original. Tolkien based Elvish originally on Latin. (But then he fixed grammatical problems and stuff so much that it became its own language.)
Author:  Neil of Erk [ October 13th, 2010, 5:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Apollo wrote:
Fantasy languages don't have to be completely original. Tolkien based Elvish originally on Latin. (But then he fixed grammatical problems and stuff so much that it became its own language.)


The thing is, it's not really original at all. It's clearly Portuguese with some small changes. It's like a dialect. Not really a work of art.

Actually, Elvish mostly looks like Latin. If you learned to read the Tengwar Scrip so that you could read Quenya or Sindarin (the forms of Elvish) properly, then you wouldn't see so much resemblance. While Elvish resembles Western languages quite a bit, it's very obviously an original work. When I read this, I thought for sure that I was looking at a dialect of Spanish or Portuguese.
Author:  Elanhil [ October 13th, 2010, 8:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The Language of the desert tribes
Exactly Neil. I'd just as soon use Portuguese itself in my book than this. (Hey, that's not a bad idea!) Anyway, I think this thread could be archived.
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