Reviewer: zumi Signed
Date: April 24 2014
Title: Chapter 10: Bonus Chapter: Nephilim Dictionary
Yes! Love it that you're inventing a language to accompany your fantastic world! I've always found such great pleasure in seeing and exploring the wonderful little treasures that languages are, and you seem to be doing a great job with yours so far. :)
As far as any advice I can give, I've never been to terribly adept at syntax, tenses, and stuff like that, but I do enjoy phonetics quite a bit and might be able to help you some there. Even though while your language is probably going to be exclusively in written form, if you're interested in the topic I'd suggest further exploring the topic regardless. :)
Now for the advice: each and every language has a flow and feeling to it (or lack thereof if made improperly). This flow is an expression of culture, social mentality, and emotional tendencies. I'd suggest then you make a standard alphabet of sounds for your language and come up with rules on certain combinations of sounds that are pennies. For example, a gutteral consonant must always follow a long vowel. Once you come up with rules that meet the flow you're looking for, or one that reflects how you are trying to portray your culture, you can just follow the rules and make a consistent (beautiful) sounding language.
Again, great story! And good luck with the language!
Author's Response: I'm glad you enjoyed the story, and the little treasure that comes with it ;D
On the subject of phonetics, the giants in the story have no written language. Thus the language has to be a believable spoken one.
The idea of pronounciation rules is something I could probably look into. I have a good idea of the giants culture and everything else so all I need to do is make it happen.
thank you for the advice