Hylian, a Language for Zelda
By Matthieu on Saturday, March 21 2015, 10:17 - Linguistique - Permalink
It's time to get this out of my to-do list: a constructed language that came to my mind in September last year!
(Click on the picture to see the introduction PDF.)
The challenge is to develop a language in the frame of the samples already present in the games of The Legend of Zelda. The universe of the games contains a lot of names (characters, places, items, events, etc.) which serve as basis for the vocabulary of Hylian here. It would therefore be relatively easy to learn for a fan, already familiar with the world of Zelda.
Here is the ad-hoc alphabet:
(Click on the picture to get the TTF font.)
"C" is pronounced like "Sh".
In short, words are based on Roots, formed of 3 consonants. These Roots can be derived with vowels. For example:
Zelda => ZLD, which can give :
- Zolud: wisdom,
- Zoldi: wise,
- Zalod: sage,
- Zilud: temple,
- Ezoulud: to get wiser,
- etc.
Here is another set of examples:
And here is an example of text:
Fans can discuss it on the Zelda Universe forum. For the language specialist forum, it's here: Hylien sur l'Atelier.
Some of you might remember a similar project, my first constructed language:
Laramin
Comments
Quite an interesting project.