The ancient languages of Far Cry | La pralingvoj de Far Cry

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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