Post by Yali on Feb 15, 2016 18:28:44 GMT
I'm pretty sure that the Rivenese dialogue used in Riven was a Papua New Guinean language used by Cyan. I remember reading this somewhere, possibly RAWA's Lyst interviews.
Question:
When I started designing Tay, I pretty much improvised a language that sounded Rivenese as I didn't know which dialect of Papua New Guinea Cyan used. Also, I felt it would be better to create an entirely new language than utilize an already existing, albeit obscure one.
Should we invent a language using the Papua New Guinea dialect as source, use it entirely (assuming we can find it), or create something entirely new that sounds Rivenese? I would like to avoid renaming a lot of the proper names in my lore section and the map out of convenience (Also I chose those words for how they sounded, leaving meaning and etymology to someone more linguistically talented than myself).
Thoughts?
Question:
When I started designing Tay, I pretty much improvised a language that sounded Rivenese as I didn't know which dialect of Papua New Guinea Cyan used. Also, I felt it would be better to create an entirely new language than utilize an already existing, albeit obscure one.
Should we invent a language using the Papua New Guinea dialect as source, use it entirely (assuming we can find it), or create something entirely new that sounds Rivenese? I would like to avoid renaming a lot of the proper names in my lore section and the map out of convenience (Also I chose those words for how they sounded, leaving meaning and etymology to someone more linguistically talented than myself).
Thoughts?
