Conlang Brainstorming: Tiiliitian and BFL-2
Added 2022-03-10 11:51:57 +0000 UTCFinally trying to figure out specific scripts for these two languages because I don't want the text in the background of this book to be gibberish. I'm terribly out of practice, the last time I did anything serious with conlang was in highschool. Nb4 someone asks, yes I did go back and add IPA, it's just that I don't have it memorized and it's so difficult to read that it's useless to me for fast transcription.
Tiiliitian is the most commonly spoken language in avian space, and it's the lingua franca of the Dominion of Tiiliit, a skimmer-majority colonialist monarchy. The reigning monarch is the Tiiliit (pictured). Avians have a syrinx and can produce two pitches simultaneously, and vowels in Tiiliitian can have up to 16 different tone structures. The base character of the vowel is modified for each of these tones, while consonants are relegated to diacritical marks.
BFL-2 or BFL-H (Bug Ferret Language - Hegemonic) is the most commonly spoken tactile sign language in bug ferret space. Most bug ferret languages are referred to in English as acronyms like this because they contain no sounds to transliterate into Roman characters. The numbering system for them goes roughly in order of when humans first encountered them, and ironically, the most commonly spoken ferret language was not the first language of the bug ferrets involved in first contact. The crew of workers who popped in near Jupiter to set up a wormhole gate spoke BFL-1, a dialect from their homeplanet's frigid subtropics with a much smaller speaker base. It's like if first contact with humans happened with a posse of humans who spoke Finnish.
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Do you have posts explaining the Wormhole gates and other such technologies in your setting?
2022-03-13 15:05:53 +0000 UTC”It's like if first contact with humans happened with a posse of humans who spoke Finnish.” 😂
Timonger
2022-03-11 07:38:24 +0000 UTCI don't understand this at all but it sure is neat
Valentina José
2022-03-11 01:12:57 +0000 UTCDo you use any particular resources when it comes to designing scripts?
honorarycassowary
2022-03-10 22:48:19 +0000 UTCI was surprised when I couldn't see their crest, but I guess it's just hidden by the headdress.
Lorax177
2022-03-10 21:14:59 +0000 UTCGoodness, I have a hard enough time working on a conlang for humans to use. Can't even imagine doing the same with aliens @-@ looks amazing so far!
Wolfcat
2022-03-10 20:49:33 +0000 UTCAbsolutely not, lol. The Dominion of Tiiliit is a bright-tricarchy all the way to the top.
Jay Eaton
2022-03-10 19:52:43 +0000 UTCI love the headdress and quilted cape(?) That the tiiliit is wearing. Are they a dun?
Lorax177
2022-03-10 18:19:03 +0000 UTC❤️
Simone Spinozzi
2022-03-10 17:41:21 +0000 UTCHi, yes I made the huge mistake of writing that comment while waiting for my train and did very limited fact checking!! I knew Finnish is related to other Ugric languages but am not that familiar with other Ugric languages besides Finnish and Sami. Thank you neighbor! Still thinking about aliens making contacts with Scandinavians 🤔
Deneb
2022-03-10 17:31:11 +0000 UTCIncorrect - Estonian, Karelian, and the Sami languages are all Finno-Ugric languages also located close to Sweden, Hungarian belongs in the same language group, and there are also several languages (not just dialects!) in western Russia and somewhere around NW Asia that also belong in the same language group. Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian being the most spoken ones out of the lot, I believe, but there are efforts to keep many of the others alive as well. Hi, neighbor - I'm from Finland :D
Kaamos
2022-03-10 15:32:08 +0000 UTCConlang my beloved. Those bug ferret “letters” are genius. >posse of humans who spoke Finnish am now considering a sci fi where this happens because it would be really hard! I’m from Sweden and neighboring with Finland — (EDIT removed incorrect information about Finnish not having a lot of related languages, thx Kaamos)
Deneb
2022-03-10 13:37:28 +0000 UTC
