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[darkflagrance]

To all people who create new races:

I'd like to see a separate language for the frost giants someday, but to create a new language from scratch is...difficult.

But I have a new technique for language generation!

First, take a language that already exists that you like the word patterns of.

Then, copy it into word, control find random letters and letter combinations that commonly appear and replace them wholesale. For example, replace all "lb"s with "fr"s.

You will thus produce a language that is cosmetically different. By also changing the symbols that a race will use in determining names, you can further distance the appearance of your new language from old languages.

For example, my current modded civ uses a language file based on the dwarves, but while dwarf names are set to pick from mining or mechanism terms, my civ picks from names having to do with knightliness, adventuring, and domination.

In other words, greater immersion!

Someone does need to do a language mod where Elvish is replaced by Tolkienian Quenya though.

[Bricks]

I think there was a decent language generator on the file depot.  Never got a chance to try it out, but it used some cool techniques.

[Protactinium]

I saw some mods in which people created languages for their races;

I was thinking that we could simply have a compilation thread of all the languages people put work into making, so that other modders could simply use these different languages when they make their own mods.

[Untelligent]

Aye, Mephansteras had that one command-line language generator.

I started working on a Python-based generator with a more user-friendly interface once, but it never got anywhere. I plan to start it up again in the next month or two so, though, as I desperately want to use one for my next-gen DF mod (and have an innate aversion to command lines).

[Mephansteras]

Yeah, it's perl and not very friendly to Non-coders. But it does a good job and all of my races have custom languages.

The DFFD link is here: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=463

You're also welcome to simply snag the language files out of Civilization forge if you want to save yourself some hassle. (Which even has Frost Giants in it)

[Telcontar]

I too am creating a language generator. Haven't looked at any of the others though. Mine should be easy enough to use.

[darkflagrance]

Ah, a code-based version should be much better than my mechanistic technique...just lack the programming expertise.

[Telcontar]

Yes, I tried to do it by hand as well. Then I remembered that I knew how to program, and could automate it far better. Then I realized that I could do some fun things with that automation. Then I realized that...


Eventually, when I stop realizing things, I'll finish the program.