Sometimes I'll find a working name that inspires me, hold onto it for a few chapters, and then change it. I always liked the name Selyse (as in Selyse Florent, Stannis' wife in ASOIAF) but didn't want to knock it off, so I worked on the name and came up with something of my own. I also frequently name characters and places after things that are significant to me personally, so it's not necessarily rooted in outside meaning.Īnd I'll also take names I like from the real world and other fantasy novels and riff on them. The three castes are kings, prophets, and priests and their order is a combination of the Hebrew words for those three things. I don't want to give too much away, but basically my world had a caste system and the upper three (of seven) castes are an elite Order all their own. Sometimes I pick names that just sound cool, but often times I do some serious digging. Tsalk- to close tsalk-its - gate closing place Terg-Tsalkits - Steel Gate Setyë-Tsalkits - Upper Gate mehh- to fence mehh-its - city fenced place (like in Slavonic etymology) Dzang-Mehhits - Bronze City Rchow-Mehhits - Lion City shen- to live shen-its - settlement place for living Tergwo-Shenits - Smiths' SettlementĪbsolutely. In my current WIP I made suffix -its for places and architectural elements. Mongol and Chukchi languages have both and, and languages with such phonetics looks more "advanced" and complex.Īlso, I try to make some etymology for proper names, so it will look like a real proper name with history behind it. But also they sound more "primitive" then languages with closed syllables and more advanced phonetics.Īlso, I personally found it too lazy, when conlang have either sound or, but never both, like in Japanese and Cantonese languages. Such languages have "lighter" sounding, then languages with closed syllables and clusters like -pk-, -shk. In some languages, like Japanese and Polinesian languages, most of words consist of open syllables with sequence: consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, like: Kamehameha, Fujiwara. Abkhaz-Adyghe languages are famous for using clusters such clusters as -hsh- and -sh'h-, and other languages of Caucasus are known for using sounds "dz", "ts", "zh" and "gh" within a single word. It creates certain "atmosphere" and associations for a language.įor example, Persian language has harsh-sounding consonant clusters like -zg-, -rg-, -rd-, and Greek and Armenian words often have clusters -st-, -sp. I usually create a conlangs with certain melodics and certain sound clusters, so these conlangs phonetically resemble real languages like Persian, Mongol, Abkhaz, or Japanese.
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