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Very fun, it kinda reminds me of Belter creole from the expanse books/show. https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter_Creole https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belte
by polytely 7y ago
Very fun, it kinda reminds me of Belter creole from the expanse books/show.
https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter_Creole https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter_Creole
https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter_dialogue https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Belter_dialogue
Some of my favourite works of fiction include made up languages, maybe because only people obsessed with world building (which is the stuff I like most about fantasy/scifi) would ever consider constructing a language just to flesh out their world.
- jacobkg 7y agoOr, in the case of Tolkien, construct a world just to flesh out their language
- mhd 7y agoAs long as it's not just building a world to use their language with… Although both Cityspeak and the Creole seem more in line with Burgess' Nadsat than Tolkien's Quenya/Sindarin/Khuzdul. More cant than conlang.
- amingilani 7y agoAfter a few seasons of Expanse, I couldn't stop mixing Belter Creole. It's so fantastically interwoven into their culture. I absolutely love how it's much more relatable and easier to pick up than something like Dothraki or Valyrian, which may as well have been Parseltongue for me. My only wish is that fictional worlds use more Urdu/Hindi phrases, but I'm sure bilingual person whishes their favorite world used both their languages. Although Belter Creole does use some familiar Urdu words, they're often paired with completely unfamiliar words. For example, setara mali or little star (literally "star little") uses the Urdu word sitara for star, but pairs it with—what I think is—the Polish word for small.
- jacobush 7y agoSetar äre bara star...
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoPeek at Mad Max: Fury Road if you haven't. The anthropological work they put into the wasteland tribes was surprising and cool. :D