Hello all
I'm Evildea, your God
And today I want to speak about
a very new ... or old ...
depending on your perspective
language, which I've just uncovered
So, this film is about the Proto-European language
but not about a theoretical language which existed
but about a re-constructed language
which was created for the game, Far Cry
Far cry is an adventure game
which was programmed and published by Ubisoft.
It made its début on the PlayStation 4 and X-box One
on the 23rd of February, 2016
It's the first title in the Far Cry series
which takes part during the stone age.
The story is about Takkar
who at the start is a weapon-less hunter
and then becomes chief of his tribe
Everything takes part 10,000 years ago
In the fictitious land of Oros.
And now that which most interests me!
The main writer Keven Shortt
said that the plan was originally for Far Cry Primal
to be performed in English
but active testing proved to the designers
that English just wasn't suitable
for the game environment
The team then contacted linguists
from the University of Kentucky
experts on the Proto-European language
The linguists and couple
Brenna Reinhart Byrd and Andrew Miles Byrd
immediately and excitedly started
working on the new language.
They created three languages for the game
Wenja, Udam, and Izila
all were based on the Proto-European language
or at least similar to what the linguists
guess it to be.
They wanted to create a new language
which was balanced between
the authentic Proto-European language
and at the same time
an artificial reconstruction.
In total, they created a grammar and 40,000 words
for three languages
Wenja and Udam are grammatically and lexically similar
but are different in pronunciation.
Izila, the language of the fire worshippers, is
grammatically more complex than the other two
to intentionally indicate the more developed state
of that tribe.
The three languages use roots from
the etymological dictionary of Indo-European languages
but when a suitable word couldn't be found
the solution was to
(1) take them from Latin
Greek, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, and Hittite languages
or (2) create them.
From now, I'll only talk about Wenja
All the vowels in Wenja are similar to Esperanto
except in these cases:
A + Y have the sound ai from "belaj"
A + W have the sound from the word "aŭ"
The consonants are more different
Here are the diferences
W is equal to the English W
Similar to the Esperanto word "aŭ" without the A sound
The letters C + H are equal to CH
The letters J is equal to G (George)
The letters S + H are equal to SH
The Y is equal to Y
The letters K + W are equal to QU (Quick)
The letters G + W are equal to GW (Gwen)
The accent usually falls overn every second syllable
but not always
Here are several examples
And here are the pronouns
I am MU
You are TA
but she, he and it don't have a pronoun
That one is SA
We is MAS
You all is TAN
They is SAY
Wenja is Subject-Verb-Object
But prepositions usually usually fall after
the pronouns and nouns
to which they belong
similar to Chinese
and function almost like affixes
and now a few sentences in Wenja
Go out at night and count the stars
that is how many years I'll wait for you
I'm not flirting with you
I'm just more kind to people
who are more beautiful than usual
and that is everything
If you want to know more
about this created language for Far Cry
there are a few links in the description below
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