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My mum and I have translated several songs and poems into Klingon for fun, she's even performed some at her folk club, people love it!

Thanks for the replies guys, I think I will stick to fantasy, which is a cheat way of saying 'I can't do the science'

I've decided to make this fantasty, rather than scifi now. Going to be islands flaoting high above an endless sea of lava.

You do that then.


Back to this thread though....

Torco, funny you mention fish on Europa, as it was me who was developing a language for Europian sharks.

Thanks for all the suggestions and science. There's my notes so far: Floating platforms above a gas giant (technically ice giant). The atmosphere above the ice giant is rich in hydrogen, methane, water, carbon dioxide, and trace oxygen, and helium. They extract the hydrogen and methane for fuel, and...

Indeed, but I'd like multiple structures that people travel between, but I'd like this to be quite low technologically, as paradoxical as that sounds... Like if it can be made so people can travel between the structures without the need for space suits then that'd be awesome...

I'm making a conworld, where the setting is floating/flying colonies above an ice giant (think similar to Neptune). Just trying to make out the specifics of how this would work... Like breathing for example. Neptune's atmosphere is mostly hydrogen followed by helium, methane, ethane, with ice clouds...

I thoguht I would have a go at this... Uuptak /ɯʔɯptak/ Uuptak is a semi-triconsonantal language, I say 'semi' because one of the affixes to the root form can be more than just a vowel. For example the word 'Uuptak' means language, it comes from the root 'P T K' meaning 'to speak', the vowel affix i...

Ptkfsxr, written as their voiced equivalents for distinguishing between two octaves: bdgvzyl.

How does this sound? Four components: ex/in-hale, note, opening/closing of mouth, length. aoui - vowels indicate hale and mouth. Close is closing, open is opening. Front is exhale, back is inhale. Vowel is double/tripled for length. Consonants indicate note of sound: abcdefg - ptkfsx(r/l?), +h is sh...

Ok after researching whalesong and the differences between whale and dolphin noises I have an idea of how my aliens talk: they use a modified swimbladder (normally used for up/down movement in water, kind of like a floatation device). Anyway the swimbladder has air in it, which they can pass through...

They don't breach the surface, the ocean is covered in a thick sheet of ice, over the whole planet. I think I will research whalesong a bit, as you suggested. So you think it will be a musical language of sorts? That would be most likely? Dolphins also make clicks as well as chirps, but I really lik...

Do sharks make any sounds? Google gives mixed results, most saying they are mute, while links saying they bark. I ask because I have an alien race of shark-like creatures that live in the under-ice ocean of Europa. They have extra limbs, on their chest/bellies, used for manipulation. Otherwise they ...

Here's an idea I developed but never used, take a 2x2 grid or a box with a horizontal and vertical line through it, same thing. Each line, the 6 of them, is binary, that is it's written or not. The pattern of the six on or off together forms one symbol representing one letter. And it looks pretty fu...

Why <š> why not <z> or something simpler?

It also might be worth using affixes for those inflection you're currently using consonants for inside the root, currently you really only have a uniconsonantal language

Here's the numbers: 1 - bal 2 - dush 3 - ghiz 4 - mem 5 - lonh 6 - reg 7 - palh 8 - nurh 9 - balobal / nurhobal 10 - balodush / nurhobal Yes, they use base 8, but I'm listing 9 and 10 for the sake of Janko mostly. Unless I write [8] after a number, I'm using base 10. 64 - zod 100 - balamemomem / zod...

Herr Dunkel wrote:I like the script quite a lot, just chiming in.

Thanks dude!

Been working on the script a bit and come up with a style of it that looks more written while still having the same encoding as the script I've shown previously, now called the 'monument' script. I basically smoothed ends of lines and corners, and deleted unused dots.

Here's some examples.

Full tower of Babel story: Mis utlazh dosru bal pag disra nam rozak. world(erg) whole(adj,erg) language(abS) one and(nouns) speech(abs) same had(3S PP) 1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. Dasra poshur-rhus sash, tiir som shugpa fomun “Shinri”-varh, pug logh bolhuk-ugh. people...

This doesn't really look like a creole; word order and morphology changes completely and the lexicon doesn't seem to come from anywhere. Sure it's aliens but it doesn't look like a human creole at all. Word order I already explained why I did what I did, but if you think a different word order woul...

I'm making a creole for the aliens (each with their own languages) in a con-universe I'm making with my brother. This is my first go at making a creole, but here's what I've done so far: Phonologies: Esaoxjae: /k t s d g z h ts m n ɹ l dz f v x ɾ j ɞ e i ɤ ɯ/ <k t s d g z h ts m n r l dz f v x y j a...

No Google Play Store?

Melend wrote:The orthography is nifty

Thanks!

But what makes you think a mouse phonology would be so intensely tonal? I don't think of mice as particularly musical creatures. Melend: "Perhaps they would have an hummed language, entirely tonal." Qwynegold: "I think I've heard that mice can make like infrasonic sounds or something, so high-pitch...