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I would suggest looking on the internet. I know they have sites on names for fantasy characters or aliens. But Use it for a reference or idea to make your own. besides if it is YOUR alien language how can you go wrong. Think of the Klingon language...."chuk nuk schmuck"...lol. perhaps somehing with a little "ting" in it: "Meliking nattong dringlo clusting" just start typing anything...if a word sounds cool, keep it. You can even make up your own letters like in Lord of the Rings. |
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If your going to make a langauge it had better be good one, tolkin spent thirty years developing his, and he was a prof of the english if your going to be writing it a lot. People trying to reading it will soon get lost, you maybe better off implying with short burst of it and quickly converting it to english in some way if you have read lord of the rings he only uses it sparingly.
Good luck with it tho. |
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but if you just want to add some some strange sounding names try:
Seventh sanctum-names.
or Fantasy name generator.
hope his helps. |
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Rai,
It all depends on the depth that you want to go into it and the context in which it is set. Brian cites Tolkein as one extreme where the writer has used the language extensively throughout his work, which in turn is based in a serious setting. I would contrast this to the dwarfish in Pratchett's work, where the setting is far less austere and where (as far as I know) words are only ever assigned English counterparts when they have relevant meaning to the plot of the story, with the rest comprising similar sounds in order to retain cohesion.
Hope this helps.
JD |