Proto-Druidic [ELVAN]
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[Deactivated User] on 27 April 2020
Language type
Other
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Druidic
This is my first conlang that I haven't scrapped yet and made good progress with, I'm making as a language that might be spoken in my D&D games. While trying to make it vaguely like a natlang, I'm not overly worried about adhering to that, and am instead focusing on it just being something I think is fun and could theoretically exist in a fantasy world. I may eventually use it as a base for a better made druidic language.
It started off as me just wanting to make ANY language for the game, I've gone between it being an alternate "human" tongue (as opposed to normal Common), elven, or druidic. I'm tentatively landed on this because I think it will be the most fun to work with. This language is meant to be an earlier form of druidic, before they became quite so isolationist. I would like to eventually make low-druidic and high-druidic conlangs, assuming I can make good progress with this. In my world druids are more common and more of an ethnic group or religion where "classic" druids (characters with levels in druid) would be similar to a priest or holy man. Low druidic would spoken by the majority of people and would not be as guarded a secret; it may be taught to outsiders who have shown themselves to be reliable and trustworthy - though this is uncommon. High druidic would be the normal Druidic tongue from D&D, taught and spoken only by druid class characters and forbidden to be shared with anyone.
I've recently decided to start making a couple other languages in the world, if for no reason other than to have somewhere to put ideas I have that won't fit well with this language. I would like to have the languages interact with each other on some level, but I don't know how much I will actually do.
It started off as me just wanting to make ANY language for the game, I've gone between it being an alternate "human" tongue (as opposed to normal Common), elven, or druidic. I'm tentatively landed on this because I think it will be the most fun to work with. This language is meant to be an earlier form of druidic, before they became quite so isolationist. I would like to eventually make low-druidic and high-druidic conlangs, assuming I can make good progress with this. In my world druids are more common and more of an ethnic group or religion where "classic" druids (characters with levels in druid) would be similar to a priest or holy man. Low druidic would spoken by the majority of people and would not be as guarded a secret; it may be taught to outsiders who have shown themselves to be reliable and trustworthy - though this is uncommon. High druidic would be the normal Druidic tongue from D&D, taught and spoken only by druid class characters and forbidden to be shared with anyone.
I've recently decided to start making a couple other languages in the world, if for no reason other than to have somewhere to put ideas I have that won't fit well with this language. I would like to have the languages interact with each other on some level, but I don't know how much I will actually do.
Sample of Proto-DruidicCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | t | d | k | ʔ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | v | θ | s | [z]1 | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | [j]2 | [w]3 | |||||||||||||||
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Open | a | |||
| Polyphthongs | ɛi | uɛi | uai | ai | uɛ | ua |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Druidic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Proto-DruidicOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| '/ʔ/ | a/a/ | d/d/ | e/ɛ/ | é/ɛi/ | i/i/ | k/k/ | l/l/ | m/m/ |
| n/n/ | r/ɹ/ | s/s/ | sh/ʃ/ | t/t/ | th/θ/ | u/u/ | v/v/ | zh/ʒ/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | ||||||||
