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noviceconlangers2011-12-04 11:11 am
aldersprig) wrote in noviceconlangers2011-12-04 11:11 am
Naming Rules
'kay.
I'm just about ready to start constructing a language, but I want to figure out what's going on with my names first.
I have a hopefully-complete list of names from my Reiassan stories here: http://reiassan.wikispaces.com/Words#x-Words and Names-People
Using (DR) to mean the time in which Reiassan was discovered & colonization began, the Lyuda timeline is about 200 DR, the Rin timeline about 500, 550 DR, and the Steam!Callanthe timeline ~1000DR. So there can be name shift in that time.
The proto!Callenian I'm making is, for ease of timelines, ~1000 years B-DR and ~500 years B-DR.
Rule One in naming:
Royals and those with royal ancestry begin their name with a vowel.
The vowels come from words meaning the untouchable things: sky, stars, moon, sun, small-moon. (Am I missing any?) So a prefix of a- or e-, etc. connects them to the untouchable.
Problem: It's often a syllable of vowel-consonant following another syllable starting with a consonant. How do the consonants figure in there?
Rule Two: I seem to have female names ending in a or I, men in a consonant.
Exception: Rin, Zaide.
...I may be blathering...
So far I seem relatively consistent in my naming, albeit accidentally for much of it. But now I get to figure this in to proto!Callenian language, and that might be trickier.
Example:
I was thinking of having a "soft" beginning consonant denote a "non-useful" gendered word, but that means, I think, that Lyuda's parents decided she was a non-useful child.
This is hard. O_O
I'm just about ready to start constructing a language, but I want to figure out what's going on with my names first.
I have a hopefully-complete list of names from my Reiassan stories here: http://reiassan.wikispaces.com/Words#x-Words and Names-People
Using (DR) to mean the time in which Reiassan was discovered & colonization began, the Lyuda timeline is about 200 DR, the Rin timeline about 500, 550 DR, and the Steam!Callanthe timeline ~1000DR. So there can be name shift in that time.
The proto!Callenian I'm making is, for ease of timelines, ~1000 years B-DR and ~500 years B-DR.
Rule One in naming:
Royals and those with royal ancestry begin their name with a vowel.
The vowels come from words meaning the untouchable things: sky, stars, moon, sun, small-moon. (Am I missing any?) So a prefix of a- or e-, etc. connects them to the untouchable.
Problem: It's often a syllable of vowel-consonant following another syllable starting with a consonant. How do the consonants figure in there?
Rule Two: I seem to have female names ending in a or I, men in a consonant.
Exception: Rin, Zaide.
...I may be blathering...
So far I seem relatively consistent in my naming, albeit accidentally for much of it. But now I get to figure this in to proto!Callenian language, and that might be trickier.
Example:
I was thinking of having a "soft" beginning consonant denote a "non-useful" gendered word, but that means, I think, that Lyuda's parents decided she was a non-useful child.
This is hard. O_O
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