You know what I find really jarring about when there's a conlang or a different species in fantasy or scifi TV or film?
They clearly don't give the actors and instruction on pronunciation. They just cut them loose and you get actors who all have their individual takes on how to pronounce a word so they all say the word differently. Drives me absolutely nuts. Hire a linguist or a speech pathologist for a day as a consultant and get your pronunciations on the same page, please.
I don't make conlangs, I focus on important things in my world building. Like climate cells, warm/cold water currents, and predicted rainfall patterns.
And yet there's always a Mediterranean, Europe, and Middle East
Making new languages is easy. Just keysmash with no defined meaning and let the Internet make up definitions.
: "Covfefe"Props to Tunic for making both a phonetic symbol based language and a musical note based language
we also got "new language but the phonetic inventory and grammatical features are just a remix of celtic languages like daddy tolkein intended"*
*i am aware that quenya is mostly finnish, don't at me nerds
Run English through 6 different google translates into other languages, then cypher the result.
More people need to learn how to make a naming language so they don’t have to worry about making a full-blown conlang.
you learn just enough linguistics to make a language skeleton with consistent names that don't sound like 1) english but not or 2) what an english person thinks language X sounds like where X is Arabic for people in an arid climate, etc. this is much less complex than making an entire language with a full enough dictionary to express complex thoughts and grammatical rules just to have names for places
So what you throw together a subset of the IPA and some basic phonotactics and then just create names that fit that as needed?
