jurble #1 Posted April 13, 2010 Ablaut is the coolest thing ever, will Dothraki have ablaut? It ought to. Because the rule of cool is awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ratatoskr #2 Posted April 13, 2010 Ablaut is the coolest thing ever, will Dothraki have ablaut? It ought to. Because the rule of cool is awesome.Well, depends...ist it an Indo-European language? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SerNotAppearingOnThisBoard #3 Posted April 13, 2010 Ablaut is the coolest thing ever, will Dothraki have ablaut? It ought to. Because the rule of cool is awesome.</linguist hat>From the samples, it's hard to say. It does appear to be inflected, viz. ido (wood) -> ide (wooden? of wood?) O->E might be either a nominative-to-genitive inflection or an adjectivizer. Since the vowel change is in a final position, it's not enough information to say whether it's ablaut or inflection.But, regardless, yes ablaut is awesome, if rather frustrating when trying to come up with consistent conlang rules.Well, depends...ist it an Indo-European language?I would guess not, but I don't know what Mr. Peterson's influences are in coming up with it. The sound pattern from the samples sounds kind of Mongolian, but I haven't noticed any rounded front vowels yet (ü, ö, etc).As far as ASOIAF languages go, the best candidates for Indo-European derivations are Valyrian (mor-ghulis = must die) and the Common Speech (one of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European terms for "west" or "western" is *Westeros :D)But I know GRRM doesn't do things that way. I'm just a language geek. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jurble #4 Posted April 13, 2010 I doubt Dothraki will seem very IE, they're probably going for Altaic with it, and such it'll probably be pretty agglutinative. But that doesn't mean it can't have ablaut. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
count brotu #5 Posted May 20, 2010 Well, depends...ist it an Indo-European language?It sounds like Arabic with an English accent to me. The consonants are similar and also the intonation (hope thats the correct word, my first language is German). I've learned some Arabic a while ago, so I'm not entirely clueless. Though I have never heard a Mongolian speak and the culture seems better fitting, so...And how can anyone think Ablaut is cool? It's just annoying when you learn a language which got Ablaute^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jurble #6 Posted May 26, 2010 Your own mother tongue has ablaut, and you denigrate it?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
