strangecs

Ok, so I would like to have a bit of a "magical" language added to my WIP. However, I don't want to pull a Tolkien and create a whole new langauge. I have been thinking about looking into actual languages such as Gaelic (very hard) or Latin, yet everything I find just seems so...overused...

The only thing I have found so far that really peaks my curiousity is the Enochian (or Angelic) language, but no luck finding much more than an alphabet of sorts.

Help would be MUCH appreciated!!

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Banzai

Tolkein's languages aren't completely fabricated. They too are based on other, older, languages- including Gaelic or Latin.


As for Enochian, I can't find an online translator or dictionary either, but I did find this:

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Enoch.../dp/1578632544

If you are thinking of using it for a major work, then you will probably need a propper dictionary like that.

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Banzai

Also, Enochian is described on Wikipedia as being a prot-Hebrewic language. You could use that as a starting point, perhaps.

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strangecs

Oh thank you so much! I am gonna use that book like its goin' out of style!

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ClancyBoy

...but mostly Finnish. Quenya is, anyway.

You could do what J. K. Rowling does and use gayed-up Latin. I guess however much effort you care to put into it.

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Archduke Robert of France

You know one of my friends wanted to give names for spells for some wierd Harry Potter thing. She tried, feebly, to translate all the spells into Latin.

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