Last week I talked about PCSK (Proto-City-State Kallerian) and some of the design elements I used when creating the language. The purpose of PCSK was to create a basic foundation for other languages to branch off from—but I still wanted to use it in the novel.
Enter Oracular Kallerian.
Read MorePCSK is the trunk of the family tree: it was spoken long ago, in prehistoric times, before war settled on Kalleria and the Kallerian culture splintered. Grammatically it’s nothing special: English-like with a few twists and declined nouns. It was designed to be adapted: when the project is done it’ll have five children languages, all with their own grammars and quirks.
Read MoreEveryone likes PIE.
I am, of course, talking about Proto-Indo-European, the grandfather of the largest family of languages in the world. PIE transformed into European, Slavic, Celtic, Anatolian, and Hellenic language families—essentially, it populated what we know as the European continent and leached into Asia around the edges. If you’re reading this, you’re familiar with its reach.
Last week I talked about constructing a minlang—a small language, in this case based on a concept—so this week I wanted to talk about the exact opposite. One of my biggest projects to date involves creating a root language.
There’s a joke in here somewhere about it being a recipe for PIE, but I’m not going to go there.
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