Kristen Twardowski informs us with an exciting blog post about “Vulgar”, a language generator for Sci-Fi and Fantasy writers. Thanks so much Kristen.
I’ve talked about my fascination with language before, but sometimes writers need a little help creating words that make sense in their nascent worlds. I recently found something that streamlines that process.
Vulgar (pardon the terrible name) is a constructed language generator. The generator creates fully realized languages; if you were truly ambitious you could learn some of them. The program attempts to mimic real languages, so there are patterns to the words that develop. For instance, in 50% of generated languages, the word for “tongue” is the same as the word for “language”, and words often share roots as is the case for:
pson /pʂon/ n. paint; v. paint
psopru /ˈpʂopru/ n. painter
I’ve played around with the generator quite a bit and am highlighting a few sample languages below.
via Vulgar
via Vulgar
The above screenshots simply capture the summaries for the languages. The full pages, however…
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O I have seen this in 33 years of teaching. You would be astonished the words created by 11th graders and the strange letters they use to write. They were astonished when I could not read a lot in their essays. “Why not ?” You’re the teacher . Don’t you understand English ?”
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ROFL. Thanks for this, Carl!! Hilarious! You’re a gem! ❤
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Gifazajinit.
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Aehm… yes… that’s what I would have said too. 😉
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I created a language for the elves in my fantasy series, The Wolves of Vimar. It was an interesting, but time-consuming process.
This sounds much simpler. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. It will go into my ‘Useful Websites ‘ folder.
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Cool. I too saved it to a special folder to use it when needed. 🙂
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