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Istana-Hutan — Introduction to the Hylian language
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This is my big project of Hylian language!Full grammar and thesaurus of over 1000 words, text samples, and even ancestral version of Classical Hylian and Musical Hylian!
This pdf is the front page of the tutorial, with a link to the latest version of the full pdf tutorial.
The main discussion thread is on Zelda Universe: zeldauniverse.net/forums/index…
And on my blog: www.notesdevoyage.com/Hylian
Enjoy!
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Bonjour Marie, tout a fait correct pour la prononciation ! Le R est plutôt roule sur la langue, mais peut aussi être roule de la gorge a la Française
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Merci beaucoup pour ces mots en Français ! C'est touchant de recevoir tous ces retours précis dans ma langue maternelle
I'll continue in English so that others can also follow:
1- The language that inspired my version of Hylian are chiefly semitic languages like Hebrew or Arabic, but with easy phonetics, grammar, and reading.
2- Yes Hirulo stems from HRL, based on the name Hyrule (cf Excel sheet), which carries the idea of world, universe, whole. I've been told to change this since there are other kingdoms than Hyrule in Zelda's universe... but maybe it's still valid from the perspective of a time when people only knew their own kingdom and nothing else?
3 - Zelda's lullaby was use first because it's a fundamental song, if not the most. Midna's song appeared to coincide, so i took it too. As i discuss at the end of the book, these 2 assumptions generates many new roots (like MNL for storm).
4 - For the connection Farore = Mind, and Nayru = Feeling, i'm based on the magic "Farore's Wind" and "Nayru's love", but I agree, the 3 virtues (Power, Courage, Wisdom) suggest a different reading... maybe something to fix?
5 - Good question ! Zelda as a character is Zolad, so genetive: Zolada. Now for "Legend".. no such word yet, but "speech" is Tayul, and like 说 it could have both meaning, though i'd better be more specific. Then we might say "Zoladatayul", or "Tayul lata Zolad".
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Thank you for the in-depth feedback again! Giving me a lot of inspiration
4- I've followed your advice about re-matching the 3 goddesses. That makes perfect sense, even by just looking at the colors ! Courage can be extended to the emotional sphere, causing them (aesthetic) and reading them (empathy).. but still game-play idea in mind! I've been giving some thought about the relationships between Body-Heart-Mind, and reaching a system of 4 poles:
www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/…
To move from that system of 4 into the 3 parts of the Triforce, Link-Farore would have the "feeling" vertical axis (passion + goodness), while Zelda-Nayru would have the "mental" side (wisdom + truth), Ganondorf-Din would be the bodily pole (strength)
That vision puts Link as a hero in ordeal, in the middle of 2 opposite influences: the vital side (strength, passion), and the mental side (truth, goodness). Interesting uh?
5- Hehe i know there's a lot of words missing, especially because the way they are generated by names doesn't prioritize the most useful! I have many word lists in order to cover the key lexicon:
www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Text…
Here inputs are welcome to help me complete and rectify the dictionary !
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Aaahhh the Triforce is everywhere! Looking at this article www.eco-business.com/news/busi… (i'm engineer in energy and environment...) and here i see : "COP21, we must, we can, we will."
Wow, the triangle Duty-Ability-Desire: Wisdom-Power-Courage! And right at that moment i was thinking how to make clearer connections between the 3 "Modal prefixes" of Hylian (chap 5.8) and the 3 Goddesses.
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Looking forward to seeing your completed project! ^^
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Thanks a lot! At this point, there is already quite a lot to see (including the XLS spreadsheet dictionary) but i feel it's important to get more feedback and advice from you guys so that it becomes more of a team work
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That's a great idea Good luck with this project^^
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Thanks! Click on it to get 48 pages more!
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