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How do I write a character learning a foreign language?
A story I am writing has the main character teleported to a fictional world where no one knows their language. How do I write having them learn the language of said world naturally? It is a ...
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How to implement a fictional language in my novel?
As a writer, I used to write short stories and poems. As a reader, fantasy is my favorite genre.
I created some what of a language for my (first ) novel. It's phoneme, pronunciation, rules and a ...
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Does it make sense to (partially) create a conlang that you don't intend to actually use in the story?
The story that I'm currently working on is in a very far future. Clearly, people will speak a different language then.
Now, I wondered if it can make sense to (partially) create a conlang for the ...
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How can you make up a convincing dialect?
I often need to introduce one, if not several, made up dialects.
We're talking about fictional worldbuilding: so any real world dialect is ruled out. They can be used as a source of inspiration, but ...
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Constructed Language - how to spell words that will be mispronounced in English
I wasn't sure how to phrase the title, so it may be a bit confusing. Feel free to edit it if you can phrase it better.
This question may be better suited for Worldbuilding SE. However, it is about ...
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Should I create my own ConLang for my story? [closed]
For my story I'm writing, some of the characters speak a different language from the protagonists.
Should I actually create a ConLang (constructed language) for them and use it in dialog OR should ...
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What's a good custom language translator?
I'm working on a fantasy story that has a Language of Power (TVTROPES) in it and I was trying to look around online to find an automatic translator for the language I came up with but can't find any.
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What's the benefit of using invented languages in-story?
I'm working on a fictional story set in a fantastical (although coherent) universe. I'm used to seeing invented languages in works like this: Tolkien's languages for The Lord of the Rings, or Paolini'...
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