The Fan Language of Splatoon

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

An earlier post of mine from about 5 or so days ago. I think it was missed.

EclipseMT said:
Word update.

* |Iyoshi!| (interj.): "Alright!"/"Okay!" Typically with an informal connotation.
* |odo| (n.): sea urchin
* |unoto| (adj.): dangerous
* |kaniye| (adj.): fast
* |waiya| (adj.) slow
* |fiise| (v.): to stand
* |ka-ota| (adj.) long
* EDIT: |tana| (adj.) short
* |kiiyu| (adv.) suddenly

EDIT: For some reason I think |Shibuya| should be Booyah Base, but that's just me.

Iyoshi, let's add some more words.

EDIT: The possessive particle can also mean "of."

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

theFIZZYnator said:
EDIT 2: It says it was written by "Eclipse" but there aren't any words pertaining to phases of the moon, or a word for the moon itself.

"Eclipse" is the author's alias.

(And coincidentally, my IGN).

Real name was over black ink because ONI didn't want me to know it.

EDIT: A word for "eclipse" can incorporate "moon" and a transitive verb for either "to block" or "to swallow."

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

PiyozR said:
I spent the night making more corrections, adding the cardinal directions and a grammar point about the possessive particle. Attached to this is the guide. I'm also going to attach this to my post on the second page. One of these days, I'm going to get the Tumblr set up along with the YouTube. Hopefully soon. Preferably while Splatoon is still on people's minds.

Elvish is still interesting after 10 years following the films.

piboy430 · Sep 8, 2015

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

Earlier I suggested |kiiyu| for "sudden(ly)."

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

These come from a post I made that probably wasn't looked at.

|zi|: 最 (sai) equivalent (superlative word prefix).
|ayani| "in addition,"
|oyapa| Japanese 「やっぱり」(either). Means "as I thought," when starting a sentence.
|abunai| (loanword: 「危ない」) "Watch out!" (Japanese for "dangerous;" colloquially means "watch out")
|daipiichi| (loanword: 大ピンチ, dai-pinchi) A colloquial expression which roughly translates to (in both languages), "Something really bad is going on!" (|piichi| is in less severe cases)

EDIT: We might need a word for "to become." I suggest |nasi|.

And if we do transitive vs. intransitive distinction (like Japanese), we need a transitive form.

「なる」 is intransitive; 「する」 is transitive.

And like "suru," the transitive form can make a noun into a verb (e.g. Japanese 破壊する, "to destroy," incorporates the noun for "destruction").

piboy430 · Sep 8, 2015

EclipseMT said:
Earlier I suggested |kiiyu| for "sudden(ly)."

I don't think I ever saw that post. However, IMO, we have quite a few words that start with the 'k' sound. 'žeki' seems like an alternative that broadens the language's sound range in words (at least, using the sounds that we already have). That's why I chose to have the 'ŧa' as often as I did, as there were only two other words that had the sound, and none were at the beginning of the word. I did a similar thing with 'uye'.

Edit: Oh, by the way, not to sound picky and rude, but,

EclipseMT said:
We might need a word for "to become."

We already have one in the PDF: |židá|. One of the new verbs incorporated it, too: |židá homáo| -> to despair

Edit 2: How about we make 'žeki' the word for 'abrupt' instead? The meanings are similar, but not identical.

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

piboy430 said:
Edit 2: How about we make 'žeki' the word for 'abrupt' instead? The meanings are similar, but not identical.

That would be great.

EDIT: We already have words for "tomorrow" and so on. They simply do "next day," "previous day," "before-previous day," and the like, but not contracted.

ANOTHER EDIT: |nori| is my proposed word for "only."

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

Updated "Calamari-ben" report, which is more or less complete at this point in time.

EDIT: Inconsistency error: at one point "to be" appears as |si| where locally it is |su|.

OTHER EDIT: What do you think? Is it still mutually intelligible with the Inkopolis/Highcolor dialect?

theFIZZYnator · Sep 8, 2015

piboy430 said:
|záraišaége|

You should have used braces if you could type the special characters. i.e. {zaraišaege} = |zaraishaege|

EclipseMT · Sep 8, 2015

theFIZZYnator said:
You should have used braces if you could type the special characters. i.e. {zaraišaege} = |zaraishaege|

I can't type Czech characters.

But I know how to install keyboards, and Czech isn't one of my most frequently used languages.

EDIT: I just realized you weren't talking to me........

PiyozR · Sep 9, 2015

You people and your vocabulary. It never ends.

piboy430 · Sep 9, 2015

PiyozR said:
You people and your vocabulary. It never ends.

I'm not sure whether you're saying that as a good thing or a bad thing...

theFIZZYnator said:
You should have used braces if you could type the special characters. i.e. {žáraišaége} = |zaraishaege|

Duly noted. I'll use the brackets in the future.

theFIZZYnator · Sep 9, 2015

I summed up the current state of the language again. Inkopolis Dialect has the simpler Penultimate Rule, analogous to US English's simplified spelling. The currently planned Octoling language should be verbally mutually intelligible should it be made.

EclipseMT · Sep 9, 2015

If I take the reins of the Octoling language project, I will not make it tonal.

Verb conjugation and noun declension is okay.

EDIT: In terms of mutual intelligibility, is it symmetrical or asymmetrical?

theFIZZYnator · Sep 9, 2015

piboy430 said:
|téze| : Here (from 'téna' (this) with the 'ze' of 'maéze' (everywhere))
|dóze| : There (from 'doáne' (that) with the 'ze' of 'maéze' (everywhere))

We should also add a word for yon (Spa. allá; Jpn. あそこ) as opposed to there (Spa. allí; Jpn. そこ). I suggest {čidóze}.

EclipseMT · Sep 9, 2015

If we are going to do the ここ/そこ/あそこ route, we might need to add a word for あの (that one away from us (definite)).

SIDE NOTE: Japanese demonstrative words (this/that/here/there) work differently than English.

In Japanese, there are three distinctions relative to the speaker/listener: near the speaker, near the listener, and away from both.

Like the aforementioned "koko/soko/asoko" (demonstrative adverbs), Japanese also has demonstrative nouns (kono/sono/ano) and pronouns (kore/sore/are).

PiyozR · Sep 9, 2015

piboy430 said:
I'm not sure whether you're saying that as a good thing or a bad thing....

It's a joke. I'm not going to turn away freebies. Thank you all for all the vocab and stuff you've contributed!

First thing: the word {teno} is the word for "human". Unless you specifically want a word for ancient Homo Sapiens like us.

Second thing: I employed the word {uya} as a prefix for "a little" or "a bit" or "a piece" along with a brief description. Looking back, I found that the word for "cat" is {uyaredu}. I went and added {redu} as a word for "tiger", retroactively making {uyaredu} into "small tiger".

Third thing: I added your vocabulary, including "blood" and "cloth/towel". Using the logic of Inkling, I planned on adding those together as {ŧasuyokižá} for "sanitary napkin" or "pantyliner". In addition, {šaégeŧasuyo} would be "blood obstacle" or "tampon". Then I had another thought: Inklings aren't mammals; they're still basically sea creatures. I can't imagine their females would have menstrual cycles. Then again, Inkling and Octarian girls seem to have breasts in human form.

This all makes as much sense as Silurians in Doctor Who.

EclipseMT said:
Elvish is still interesting after 10 years following the films.

Yeah, with language nerds and hard-core Tolkien followers. Not with ninety-nine percent of LOTR/Hobbit fans. However, I'm not that worried. Nintendo has been releasing regular content for Splatoon with no end in sight. I foresee the huge social media presence of this game not dwindling any time soon.

Adding the new PDF to this post and the main post.

Andy-the-Dandy · Sep 9, 2015

Corrections: In the PDF guide, |hahu| (to laugh) is written as |hazhe| in Inkling. Also, |zhiemiza oide| ("did you understand?") is transliterated and translated as |sofu oide| ("did you win?") I think you may have meant to change that example.

Suggestion: in Esperanto, nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives are all pretty much interchangeable. Nobody ever uses, say, "hat" as anything other than a noun because it makes no sense, but it's grammatically correct to do so. Could Inkling work like that, too?

Some of the descriptors are already adjectives, adverbs and nouns, so it doesn't seem like such a huge stretch. It would mean, for example, we could use the same words for "good shot" and "to shoot well," |beota papa|. That could then also mean "to shoot goodness," a useless meaning for anything other than an especially cheesy Saturday morning cartoon. Or would it be too confusing?

theFIZZYnator · Sep 10, 2015

Andy-the-Dandy said:
Suggestion: in Esperanto, nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives are all pretty much interchangeable. Nobody ever uses, say, "hat" as anything other than a noun because it makes no sense, but it's grammatically correct to do so. Could Inkling work like that, too?

In Esperanto, all nouns end in -o and all adjectives end in -a, while verbs are conjugated in other endings. What I think should happen is a suffix to put on nouns to make them verbs, or vice versa. Same for nouns<->adjectives, or verbs<->adjectives.

Andy-the-Dandy said:
Some of the descriptors are already adjectives, adverbs and nouns, so it doesn't seem like such a huge stretch. It would mean, for example, we could use the same words for "good shot" and "to shoot well," |beota papa|. That could then also mean "to shoot goodness," a useless meaning for anything other than an especially cheesy Saturday morning cartoon. Or would it be too confusing?

{beota papa} "good shot" while {papa beota} weans "shoot well" is how I understand it.

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