Original Prompt Provided by Jessie Peterson
Quothalinguist – Exploring language since ’89
Day One
Goal: Set an intention for your language.
The Three Pillars of Goals
To create a lasting and authentic protolanguage that will grow beyond itself and branch into a well-functioning and diverse family of languages and dialects across this realm.
To establish a connection and deeper understanding of the cultures of these languages’ native speakers and their respective realm.
To showcase my passion through this daunting pursuit of a greater grasp on linguistics and on fantasy language construction, and to share that progress with this realm.
Day Two
Goal: Set an intention for sharing your language.
Organizational Intent
The process of documentation will begin with my handwritten notebook pages, that I will be filling out as this year goes on, into a collection of files within Microsoft Office.
A PowerPoint presentation will be key in organizing this conlang’s identity into a comprehensive mind.
From the PowerPoint presentation onwards, the daily prompts will be shared here for any and all who wish to accompany on this journey of entering the realm.
Day Three
Goal: Determine your speakers and conworld.
The Big Picture
The speakers and/or users of this language are human adjacent beings that inhabit a distant and scientifically plausible habitable terrestrial planet in a solar system we will be calling Nikral. We will be calling the planet Elttik, more likely referred to as Eltik for short.
The language’s evolution will heavily be derived from one single continent for the time being, we will be calling that continent Azulith.
- Galaxy: Nikral
- Planet: Elttik (Eltik)
- Continent: Azulith
- Locals: Humans
Day Four
Goal: Describe (or design) your speakers.
The People
The speakers are biologically adjacent examples of humankind on a foreign world, they share the same anatomical features as bipedal creatures.
Unique to them, they possess consciousness, and the psychological complex avenues of thought that take presence in that understanding.
They are highly social, and will tend to function under a sociocultural domain for the greatest chance of survival.
Day Five
Goal: Describe (or design) your conworld terrain.
The Land of the People
The terrain for the speakers’ immediate environment is prominently featured above the sea.
From atop a mostly rugged stone and clay coastal cliff, the topography stretches into open hilly meadows with scattered copses of temperate trees, where there is a weaving blend of varying classes of these trees dotting the motherland.
Beneath the sod, in captivity in the region’s caverns, sustaining springs of water amass, making way for decorated subterranean ecosystems.
Above ground, the seasonal waterways, oxbow lakes, and diverse vegetation help produce a saturated soil that is integral to sustainable human civilization.
The further removed from the sea, the thicker the foliage becomes. Further inland, hilly meadows meet exceptional hills, and exceptional hills meet stone and clay bluffs.
Along the shoreline and sat below the continuous steep cliff face, wave action has eroded the rock to form stacks of various beachstone reefs.
All over, this land is fashioned with shades of crimson and scarlet reds as its primary natural plant color.
Day Six
Goal: Describe your conworld’s climate and weather patterns.
The Way of the Land
According to Köppen’s climate classification scheme, this region can best be categorized as a Cwa climate zone; which can best be narrowly described as an oceanic humid subtropical monsoon. The territory will experience a wet summer, and dry winter season.
The wet summer season is typically long, hot and humid. Currents of tropical air account for the daily showers, casts of fog and its thunderstorms. Rainfall has its peak in this season, leading to well developed monsoons from the circadian thunderstorms.
The dry winter season is typically the shorter of the two seasons, being a cooler to milder time of year. Freezing temperature and snowfall are considered a rare occurrence along the maritime climate, but will more heavily impact terrain moving further inland towards the highlands.
Day Seven
Goal: Describe (or design) native flora.
A Botanical Study
These speakers have a reasonably well-versed understanding of their local terrain, as curious intellectuals among them have been able to distinguish between a collection of hundreds of individual species of plant life in the region. From the coastal beachstone formations, to the flood plains, to the grasslands, and to the heavily forested thickets, the estimation seems to be somewhere close to three hundred known local and endemic flora at this time in their history.
The lack of a writing system for nearly all of their evolutionary past means these highly intelligent and primitive people have developed an impressive coordination of their memories; this is necessary for the passing of crucial knowledge of the usage and benefits of these flora to the next generation.
It is agreed upon that the local flora is best arranged into three smaller groups. These groups are adjacent equivalents to the genera of Plantae, Fungi, and Protozoa.
Survey of Plantae
Plantae account for just over two thirds of the counted species of flora. Of the approximately two hundred and thirty individual species, they are categorized into over one hundred and ninety individual genera.
A couple of the most populous genera of trees and shrubs found here are adjacent examples to the Acacia (wattles) and the Ficus (figs).
Some of the most populous genera of flowering plants and herbs found here are adjacent examples to the Solanum (nightshades), the Lamium (deadnettles and archangels), the Passiflora (passionflowers), the Lantana (lantana), and the Oenothera (evening primroses, sundrops, and beeblossoms).
Survey of Fungi
Fungi account for more than a quarter of the counted species of flora. Of the approximately one hundred individual species, they are categorized into over seventy individual genera.
Some of the most populous genera of mushrooms found here are adjacent examples to the Amanita (amanita), the Auricularia (wood ear fungi), the Trametes (trametes), the Marasmius (pinwheels and parachute mushrooms), and the Phallus (stinkhorns).
Survey of Protozoa
Protozoa account for a handful of a percentage of the counted species of flora. Of the approximately twenty individual species, only four of them are not categorized into their own individual genera.
Some of the most populous genera of slime moulds found here are adjacent examples to the Arcyria (arcyria), the Ceratiomyxa (coral slimes), the Hemitrichia (hemitrichia), and the Lycogala (lycogala).
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