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Community => Creative Outlets => Topic started by: Witchyjoshy on July 29, 2012, 07:06:41 am
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Because why not?
Unfortunately, I don't quite know of a good one to learn. The most immediate one is Dovah, the dragon language of Skyrim, but unfortunately, it's not a very complete language. I mean, it has sentence structure (albeit a very English based one) but... eh, I dunno.
So, conlang experts out there... know any good draconic conlang for me to learn?
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I've got one myself, but it's just a sketch and some vocabulary. I mostly just use it as a source of loan words for my other langs.
As I understand it, the one from Skyrim is basically just a clone of English, grammatically. That would make it easy to learn though.
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Would that one be worth learning, though?
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Well, it's not a spoken variant, but ClaWrite's fun to write in...
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Would that one be worth learning, though?
That's up to you. It's from a well known game, so you're more likely to meet other people who speak it/know about it than some other language, though there are others more sophisticated (I don't know of any specifically off the top of my head but I know they're out there).
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The language in Skyrim wasn't created by a linguist, it was created by the music composer who just wanted some foreign and ominous-sounding chanting to put in the soundtrack. It's pretty much a word-swap from English and it doesn't differentiate between past, present, and future tense at all. Even when you translate the songs into English, they'll still rhyme.
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The language in Skyrim wasn't created by a linguist, it was created by the music composer who just wanted some foreign and ominous-sounding chanting to put in the soundtrack. It's pretty much a word-swap from English and it doesn't differentiate between past, present, and future tense at all. Even when you translate the songs into English, they'll still rhyme.
...Does that particularly matter?
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The language in Skyrim wasn't created by a linguist, it was created by the music composer who just wanted some foreign and ominous-sounding chanting to put in the soundtrack. It's pretty much a word-swap from English and it doesn't differentiate between past, present, and future tense at all. Even when you translate the songs into English, they'll still rhyme.
...Does that particularly matter?
Does it matter to you? I mean, you're the one learning it, not me.
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I found a font for things like Wordpad and Word of the Skyrim dragon language letters. The text of the language is designed the way it because it's written by dragons, who had to use their claws to scratch it into stone or something. because of this each letter is made up of no more than three scratches and one dot, corresponding with the three forward claws and the dewclaw. Here's a video showing how to install it with a link to the download in the description:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF3d5pfWSqo
Off the top of my head I only remember the meaning of the words krosis(sorrow) and vol(horror), both being names of dragon priest masks(the full meaning of Volsung is unknown)