Ktuvok

ConlangArtist · Post by **ConlangArtist** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:20 pm

The Ktuvok have language don't they? You might have posted somehting about it but i didn't find it. If they do have a language what is it and will you be posting it anytime soon?

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 1:25 pm

zompist's currently working on the Count of Years, a mythological account of the prehistory and early history of Almea. Possible projects slated for the future include: a grammar of Axunashin or Xurnash, more information on Arcel, and the biology of Almea.

So, he might do ilii or ktuvoki languages one day, but not yet.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:22 pm

ConlangArtist wrote:The Ktuvok have language don't they? You might have posted somehting about it but i didn't find it. If they do have a language what is it and will you be posting it anytime soon?

I've gone through All of Virtual Verduria, and I can honestly say that I've never even seen a reference to Ktuvok language, although I'd think it'd be a simpler project that Eteod?ole would. Although after Elkar?l, it might be even weirder than...something.

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 2:23 pm

Z did say on the old Virtual Verduria board, long ago, that the ktuvok languages, like those of the ilii, were meant to be used both in air and underwater, that they sound "percussive" (unlike the ilii language, which sounds like singing), and that humans find it discordant and unpleasant.

He's already said that the ilii languages are VERY different from any human communication--more like painting pictures or emotions with sound, than expressing thought with words as we know them--and I suspect that the ktuvoki languages may be equally weird from our perspective.

p@,
Glenn

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:43 pm

"percussive", eh? Possibly a click lang

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:39 pm

Jaaaaaa wrote:"percussive", eh? Possibly a click lang

I suspect clicks might be part of a ktuvok language, especially underwater (as with, say, whales and dophins). Knowing the ktuvoks, fang-gnashing might be part of it too.

p@,
Glenn

Post by **zompist** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:55 pm

Possible ktuvok phonemes: the snap of a slave's femur... the fricative hiss of necromantic spectres... the squirty sound of an imploding fish

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 6:16 pm

cool!

con quesa · Post by **con quesa** » Sat May 31, 2003 10:53 pm

I recall that in the LCK, you mentioned that you had an amphibious race with different pronouns for group minds and whether the beings were in or out of the water. Were you reffering to the Ktuvoki?

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Sat May 31, 2003 11:06 pm

He wasn't; he was referring to the Verians, which he explains most elequently here: http://www.zompist.com/verian.htm.

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