Have you designed a language?

[ThWatcher]

I found a couple of the Traveller books that I remember having the 'Word Generation' sections for curtain races. 'MegaTraveller Alien Vol. 1 & 2' had pre-made tables for the races in those books.

I think there was also blank tables and instructions on how to create your own tables in another book, 'MegaTraveller Referee's Companion' I believe. I remember it talking about using hard consonants for guttural sounding languages and soft sounds for light sounding or easy-on-the-ears words.

 

[Lanefan]

A long time ago I and a friend spent some time trying to dream up a language - got up to a few hundred words vocabulary and a basic grammar (which immediately produced lots more words due to phrase construction often consisting of simply running words together kind of like German) then gave up on it when we realized what we'd gotten into.

About all that remains of it now is, in part, here on this screen: my name (that of my iconic character); and those of several other characters I've played over time.

Lanefan Detustre translates to Man-of-Moon (from) Great-South-Bay.

Lan-"I really ought to dig that stuff up and give it another run out"-efan

 

[jmucchiello]

I joined a game that had been running 12+ years and in all that time they had never encountered a dwarf. So of course I played a dwarf. So the DM had some bits and pieces of a dwarven language that I fleshed out and used to pepper my speech with. It was very fun because we made dwarves feel very alien. (why else had no one met one in 12+ years, 3 years in game time?)