Creole Conlang Adventures 1
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As some of you who've read my fanfictions know, I write a lot of Hoenn headcanons. A lot. I also have a worldbuilding for Sootopolis City and its culture—its religion, its cuisine, its history, and its language... kind of. In my head, Sootopolis's language is "a mix of Greek and Japanese", but up until now, I never really thought about what exactly that means.
And then this video came up in my YouTube recommendations, which reignited my special interest in languages (well, that and buying language books at Barnes & Noble) and the motivation to figure out the Torchic Sootopolitan language. And then I found this series on making Creole conlang languages, and now here we are.
So uh... welcome.
But like... what do these words mean????
Sometimes groups of people with different languages interact, and sometimes these groups need to communicate with each other. In order to communicate, these groups will develop a pidgin language, which is a combination of two or more languages with very simplified grammar and vocabulary. Sometimes, though, a pidgin will survive long enough to develop more and more, and once the pidgin has native speakers, it becomes a creole language.
Greek is a language of the Indo European family. It's the native language of Greece, a country in Southeast Europe. It has about 13.5 million native speakers.
Japanese is a language of the Japonic family (most consider Japanese to be a language isolate, or a part of the very small Japonic family alongside the Ryukyuan languages). It's the native language of Japan, a country in East Asia. It has about 128 million native speakers.
Most languages develop naturally across time. A conlang (constructed language), meanwhile, is deliberately constructed. Conlangs are often seen in fiction, such as Klingon and Elvish.
As some of you who've read my fanfictions know, I write a lot of Hoenn headcanons. A lot. I also have a worldbuilding for Sootopolis City and its culture—its religion, its cuisine, its history, and its language... kind of. In my head, Sootopolis's language is "a mix of Greek and Japanese", but up until now, I never really thought about what exactly that means.
And then this video came up in my YouTube recommendations, which reignited my special interest in languages (well, that and buying language books at Barnes & Noble) and the motivation to figure out the Torchic Sootopolitan language. And then I found this series on making Creole conlang languages, and now here we are.
So uh... welcome.
But like... what do these words mean????
Sometimes groups of people with different languages interact, and sometimes these groups need to communicate with each other. In order to communicate, these groups will develop a pidgin language, which is a combination of two or more languages with very simplified grammar and vocabulary. Sometimes, though, a pidgin will survive long enough to develop more and more, and once the pidgin has native speakers, it becomes a creole language.
Greek is a language of the Indo European family. It's the native language of Greece, a country in Southeast Europe. It has about 13.5 million native speakers.
Japanese is a language of the Japonic family (most consider Japanese to be a language isolate, or a part of the very small Japonic family alongside the Ryukyuan languages). It's the native language of Japan, a country in East Asia. It has about 128 million native speakers.
Most languages develop naturally across time. A conlang (constructed language), meanwhile, is deliberately constructed. Conlangs are often seen in fiction, such as Klingon and Elvish.