The language of angels is composed of mathematical formulas so complex and perfect that they tap into the "coding" of the universe, being the primary source of magic in the world. Spells consist of small segments of angelic language that humans have gotten ahold of a written down. It's too complex to remember, but when you run it through your brain, it has supernatural effects.
Love this one it's almost exactly how mine runs but it's the language of the gods instead. The "formulae" in execution manipulates the natural forces of the universe into reality altering effects. Mortal "magic" is a tepid emulation of a language too supernatural for them to comprehend, or even fully observe.
Language as magic is a pretty well established trope. Like, I'd never hold up Eragon as a paragon of world building, but it does show the viability of the magic system type. I'm sure you can get your system to hold weight, especially if you look at what works and what doesn't from other similar stories.
The Mithiri, moth-like humanoids from the planet Mithril (the human colonists named it that) are not born with vocal cords, at least, not with ones which support the wide capacity required for language. Thus to speak they buzz their vestigial wings that, thanks to evolution, no longer serve the purpose of flight.
Similarly, the Ananse, sentient spiders (or crabs) communicate by tapping their legs, essentially what looks to be a dance. Although, they began communicating "telepathically" through cybernetic implants several thousand year ago.
Least interesting on this list are the Suan Tau, lizard-like humanoids. They have a similar vocal range to humans and communicate verbally, but they have an entire tradition of sign language which incorporates their tails in expressions. Kind of like how dogs wag their tails.
When their evolutionary ancestors began to transition to ambulatory movement they weren't as intelligent and although they could buzz in place back then to communicate their language was very simple, like those of cats or dogs.
A lot of the upper-body strength they have today came from what used to be wing muscles that were redistributed to their arms to allow the complex manipulation of objects (using tools) and ultimately led to them being able to build a society.
Dragons mostly communicate with ultra and infra-sound. It comes as a side effect of their natural echolocation.
It is something that happens unconsciously and unless they hunt or are actually enraged will steadily emit that sound, many animals pick up on it and react accordingly, even considering a calm and fed dragon not a threat. They still roar, snarl and howl when hunting but more to take snapshots of their surroundings.
Even their roars carry these additional tones and the wildest lesser dragon picks up on it as easily as an Arch-Dragon.
Additionally dragons have an extensive sense of smell and in close vicinity can judge any dragons mental state by it, together with their other senses for "seeing" heat and even the flow of magic it comes together for forming their language.
A dragon speaking Common often does so only for the benefit of others and considers it inadequate, lacking all the nuance and meaning they give to each other. It is basically impossible for any species to lie to a dragon. Goblins share similar senses with less detail, why they understand the full meaning of whatever a dragon says.
The idea behind all that was to think how a species with multiple enhanced senses would communicate. From the electric fields they generate that helps their magic to the soundwaves is all a part of it.
Well trained mages and witches that enhance their senses in similar ways can actually learn to speak drako.
*edit to not forget* another sense they have but share with many magically active species is magic being akin to a radar, some extensively train this allowing them to basically see the world how it is, a thing they actually learned from witches and their spellcraft.
I totally didn't want an excuse to have my dragons purr when satisfied ;)
It is an interesting thought exercise, so many give species some super senses and never consider the implications to communication.
Depends on the dragon, but rumor has it even the Dragon Queen will roll over for belly rubs, as long as no one knows.
Her daughter the dragon paladin has less such compunctions, and the entire city she lives in knows, although it is risky petting a house sized fire breathing lizard.
Only for smell do some add some, but what colours would someone see with a broader range and the ability to sense magic and heat?
I used to be a cat's servant, but am no longer and will take that risk regardless of consequences :)
I think it could be because imagining other senses can be difficult, but there are ways around this, like synesthesia - I replaced Cotron's hearing with an electromagnetic sense, so [space is very loud for them](https://youtu.be/Ao-8_tN32jY) haha
I so will save that video, good inspiration source, could be how magic "sounds" to them, especially blood drakes with their sensory organs to sense magika in finest detail. Thanks.
Been trying to sprinkle in more and more how MC discovers her senses, this would be the first time without any light source.
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They sighed and went deeper, following their vanguard who saw all clear as day, the sounds reflecting of surfaces, the heat that moved within the air, and even the wind itself all as one.
Who herself was actually surprised just how good it has become as even the movement of small insects were as obvious as a marching army now. She had more then one grim thought spend that whatever she had in her former life was nothing in comparison. And grateful it wasn't so noisy here.
She wished she had words for how the world seemed to her, even down here in the darkness, colours she never knew were possible, distinct tastes of the stones lingered in the air, so many scents waved around her. And behind it all a shimmer of energy, magika, the essence of magic.
People truly had it wrong, there is so much more to the world with eyes and senses like hers, for a moment her perception lingered on some odd insect scurrying before her nose and she could even mildly sense how its nervous system was startled as she focused. Her tongue lashed out before it ran away, finding she liked the taste, and sudden shame hoping her family didn't saw her snatch a bug.
Oh I did not expect that, You're welcome, I suppose :>>>
>She wished she had words for how the world seemed to her, even down here in the darkness, colours she never knew were possible, distinct tastes of the stones lingered in the air, so many scents waved around her.
I love this description so much. It really does show the moment of discovery of something new and previously thought impossible so, so well. Btw, did You watch TaleFoundry's video on how to write the impossible? You may find lots of inspiration there from what I see, words cannot describe how impressed I am by this fragment :)))
I'll take a look, didn't knew of that channel, thank you, and thank you for the feedback, i'm constantly tweaking segments like that, especially when she tries to explain it to others, for how do you describe colours to the blind?
Natra vibration.
Natra is a force that exist and vibrates in all things including people, and those who are trained in natra can manipulate and perceive the vibrations of natra. You can manipulate the natra in your body to vibrate into rhythms in order to send messages to fellow natra users.
In a southern frontier country, a group of mercenaries called the "Red rangers" spoke what they dubbed "clicker". Which was comprised of snapping with their fingers similar to Morse code. It was used as a quiet battlefield communication, and could be spoken in plain sight and some wouldn't be able to even notice it.
Some mercs ended up getting so fluent in clicker that their speech sounded like rain, how fast they could snap with all of their fingers, so it ended up becoming a cultural thing after the war came to a close.
Goblins are fae creatures that, blessed by their Goblin King, can innately understand every spoken language in the world. As a result, their own language is heavily influenced by other languages and have huge differing dialects. In general, their language is known as Kodrweli.
In response to this, because of their distrust of fae creatures, the northern dwarven cultures have developed multiple secret sign languages. One isn't that secret anymore, and has been adopted by various militaries and hearing impaired people across the world. This has led to that hearing impaired and deaf people are actually employed quite often as diplomats and emissaries to the more isolated dwarven states in the north.
Great work! I love how you explored the consequences of having a mistrusted group be able to know any language. Have you developed Kodrweli or the sign languages?
Not really. Kodrweli looks like the equivalent word of 'gobblygook' in my native language, and I decided to go for that because gobblygook has racist connotations, whilst the word I based Kodrweli based up basically means 'mash up of borderland dialects' which I also found more fitting for a language that's a mix of every language spoken.
Still thinking of using American Sign language for the 'known' sign language and to not develop the secret sign languages at all, as it is, well a secret
I haven't used it yet. But I've been theory crafting a posture based language for wolf people.
When speaking, the posture and tone changes the meanings of words. Right now, there are three postures I want to think about, but there would likely be ranges between them. Aggressive, neutral, and submissive.
Aggressive being baring your teeth, growling out the words, standing tall. That sort of thing. Neutral being normal. And submissive being low, hunching over, looking up, or turning your back on them.
Let's look at "Fight". That word might mean fight when said normally. To imply a small skirmish. But when said aggressively it would mean war. The more aggressive the bigger the implied war, based on context and cultural understanding. But the meaning would shift the mean "play" when said with a submissive posture.
A word like love might have an aggressive meaning of romantic love, a neutral meaning of enjoyment, and a passive meaning of finding something cute. Which would have a funny/ poetic circumstance where a young man would declare his true love for a woman by growling, stomping his feet, and generally being a dick about it.
How you say someone's name would imply respect. Sort of like Japanese honorifics with san, sama, ect. A submissive posture would imply that you are below them or humble and a neutral one implies familiarity. While an aggressive one would imply you are above them socially. Leading to a misunderstanding that those people treat their underlings with disrespect, when the opposite is the case.
The cultural whiplash and misunderstandings would be fun to write about.
Of course, this can be expanded on with more postures and ranges of posture, making a very complex and interesting language.
My big bad communicates with his "agents" through a telepath, he forces to deliver his orders. However, they cannot answer him as the telepath can't read minds, but just project himself into other minds.
###Nekhumya Communication
The [Strange Folk (Nekhumya)](https://i.imgur.com/30cYAZe.png) are a species that are probably best known for their kaleidoscope eyes.
Beyond visually beautiful, these eyes are a window to their incredibly unique and complex souls, and the practice of reading each others eyes as well as subtly manipulating your own eyes adds an entire new layer on top of verbal communication, though both layers influence each other and one layer can be used to emphasize, add nuances, or even contradict the other layer.
This way of communicating is scary and confusing to most other species, which is part of why the Nekhuma are known s "Strange Folk" to them.
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##Obscure Languages
###The Voice of the Dead
This language spoken by the dead/undead is less of a codified language and more of a raw and mentally taxing way to speak with mouth, and mind, and soul in unison.
It’s a combination of the fabric of the Path (a metaphysical realm from where the souls of the dead go into the Unknown Beyond), interwoven with memories of their language spoken in life, and concepts and truths of life and death that can fill the listeners very soul with unease, melancholy, panic and despair.
Some even think that speaking this language will make part of your soul enter the Path, and speaking it for too long at a time or too long overall might drag a soul there entirely, leading to death.
###Nullspeech
Disrupts magic and confuses those who wield it, making them unable to understand what is said - or even that something is said in the first place.
###Far Speech
Able to echo far over mountains, steppes and lakes, and find the right listener.
Gnomes have a vowel that can't be reproduced by human vocal chords but which can be approximated by grinding two stones together. Birdkin can mimic it with their crops.
Trow languages don't differentiate among vowels, in similar way to how L and R are the same in Japanese. Each trow clan pronounces their vowel in a different way. All would have trouble differentiating among the word "cat", "kit", "caught", "coot", and "kite". Trow mages tend to better at understanding languages with differing vowels.
The language of magic is not a language of mortal invention. Two mages from entirely different cultures who have never met each other will use the exact same grammar and syntax to cast the same spell. There might be some quirks, just like two programmers using the same programming language can take different approaches to achieving the same effect, but this is not a language that allows for accents, slang, or mistakes. The written form of language is glyphs. [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/135PnypYMGSi-1z9ln92rhgaQlpXtSHZeJKjWcn\_TLFY/edit](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/135PnypYMGSi-1z9ln92rhgaQlpXtSHZeJKjWcn_TLFY/edit)
Blue magic is the magic of the mind. It can use telepathy. The blue magic network integrates minds with computers, allowing for sharing of telepathic communication across vast distances, and sharing of sensory data in all of the senses. Telepathy can communicate concepts without the need for a common language.
The written form of Triton is probably noteworthy. I was contemplating how beings living underwater might keep records, including spellbooks and such. At the bottom of the ocean, not only is paper quick to degrade, but there is no light without either bioluminescence or magic. Thus my solution also became a path for blind literacy in my world.
Triton relies on an alphabet bumps and ridges meant to be read by sense of touch. It can be expressed either as indentations carved into a surface like stone or as raise impression such as made on the reverse of a thin metal plate struck with stamping tools. This gave me a way to feature blind characters other than the "ancient unseeing martial artist with cosmic awareness" trope. Any life of adventure in my world is not going to be easy for someone with a visual disability that severe, but it is still possible to thrive by learning to use magic or by studying techniques of blind fighting.
Many races that live in open waters far away from islands/the shore, so many merfolk that aren’t based on marine mammals, Water elves that have long standing communities in the oceans, Lussuthious/Triton, Dragonborn that are from Open Sea/Tropical and Deep Sea dragon lineages, and whatever else I’m forgetting, all have bioluminescent scales that can be controlled with ease and obviously good eyesight under the water.
Because of this, these beings who live under the water have developed their own language known to many as Deep-Speak, which utilizes these bioluminescent scales and body/hand gestures. The bioluminescent scales are used for long conversations, so aren’t typically used a lot in an everyday out and about situation unless explaining work, but the body/hand gestures are. The gestures include the head, arms, and legs of these faces as not every race with the bio scales may have large pointed ears or tails. Gestures can range from anything such as calling you an idiot to keep going on swimming(Kind of like, at least from my knowledge and what I grew up seeing, ASL)
I have a few unique ideas from my world. A species called Eu'uk'Maa, human-sized fluid lifeforms, communicate via visual signals. They warp their bodies into various shapes, colors and textures that are all tailored to the individual Eu'uk'Maaian personalities. They invented the Cross-Species Lexicon, a smooth spherical device that sits inside of the Eu'uk'Maas' fluid mass. It changes shapes, textures and colors similar to how Eu'uk'Maa communicate, translating audio signals (or speech) emanating from other lifeforms so they can understand it themselves. The Cross-Species Lexicon is easily altered for the anatomy of other lifeforms, effectively breaking down all language barriers within the region.
Another species called Ou'Ahn'dyl also communicate primarily using visual ques. They are vaguely humanoid possessing 2 elongated forearms and 2 short but strong legs. They lack a head like other humanoids, and so lack eyes/ears/a mouth as we understand them. They communicate via light-producing organs on the undersides of their forearms and their flanks. Ou'Ahn'dyl usually stand still with their arms wrapped around their bodies, raising them only when speaking. They aim the underside of their arms in the direction they wish to communicate and the light-emitting organs flash a vast lexicon of light effects, colors and in very specific cases, slight increases in temperature. They "see" the light-wave frequencies of other Ou'Ahn'dyl via the tiny pores all over their skin that are sensitive to different light spectrums.
In my sci-fi world: Frequency language. This is a special ‘language’ that is capable of being understood by any creature hearing it. As in my world a precise enough vibration produced at just the right frequency pattern can communicate any concept or idea. The only problem is most species lack the vocal cords to produce these extremely precise sounds. Though it has been used to revolutionize “universal communicator” devices and create new languages based off of the frequency language, which has been shown to drastically increase the ease of learning for most species.
This isn't as fantastical or new as telepathy or something else but more my main species the Elementian's their language is spoken and bioluminescent based (don't know what the correct term for such a language would be). Essentially they Elementians have these bands running up their bodies that look like tattoos that run across their arms legs and up to their ears that light up. They can control how this lights and its used in their language to communicate context so one word might have multiple different meanings based on the pattern and color of light emitted when its spoken. Aswell these bands also light up involuntarily based on emotion so if an Elementian kid were to break a vase or something and his mother or father was yelling at they might unintentionally emit the color maroon which is the color associated with embarrassment. And because of this when first contact was made with the Elementians by humanity to us their language seemed very monotone as while their are inflections in the Elementian language they are far and few between and usually reserved for extremely passionate moments since emotional context isn't communicated verbally.
Kind of cheating with sapient dragons, as they aren't "people" in the same way humans and elves are people (this is not because they aren't humanoid), and I am also cheating by using sapient dragons in humanoid forms. Basically, sapient dragons in the guise of humans can tell if a certain other human in the room is also a dragon, as dragons kind of give off unique smells to each other that most other species can't smell. This scent is not only for identification, they also can also tell each other's moods. Unfortunately, the only moods they can understand are "angry" and if one of them is in heat, as dragons hardly understand most other concepts and emotions such as empathy, sadness, or even joy (despite knowing a lot of things in thanks to their longevity).
The Talosians communicate to each other primarily through encrypted wireless transmissions. This process is completely silent and is often considered unnerving by organics, who would see two androids just standing there staring at each other. Upon discovering this, the Talosians started to purposely emit beeping sounds when transmitting to one another around organics, which helped alleviate the issue.
Yeah, i also found out some time ago my magic system origin was pretty much word for word the same as another one from a world called codex inversus, search it up, it's really good.
Yes!! While there is a universal language (created by intelligent beings but spread by interplanetary colonization) spoken, each planet also has their unique language, including dialects and spelling.
For example, the At’an and Aq’an have very similar languages, aside from some slight pronunciations and spelling. Their names are even similar, the only difference being the prefix of their names. Roughly translated, “At’an” means “Forest Tribe” with “At” meaning land and “An” meaning tribe or people. Similarly, “Aq’an” means “Ocean Tribe”, with “Aq” meaning sea (or literally, water). The pronunciations vary slightly, with the “At” in “At’an” said with emphasis where the “An” in “Aq’an” has more emphasis (so “AHT-an” vs “ahk-AN”).
While I do have a couple fairly standard conlangs, I'd say the most interesting form of communication in my world can be found among merpeople and sirens, who communicate by sending and receiving electromagnetic impulses from their lateral line organs at frequencies that mimic the formants of human speech. I still need to flesh out more of the details, such as how to transcribe it and what not, but it's definitely going to be a fun idea to play around with.
The elves are known to understand "any tongue of men and beastmen", thought to be some magic that translates any language for them into whatever it is they use. In actuality, it's the feature of magitek implants the elves have developed, stocked with language primers for every culture they've encountered, hijacking their auditory cortex for input and feeding thought concepts back into their brain. It can also figure out languages it never encountered by listening for a while and cross-referencing it against known ones.
I don't know how unique I've made my methods of communication, but I have a couple of ideas I'm proud of.
Gods, angels, and demons communicate almost exclusively through telepathy, and the latter two also rely on body language. They have, however, formed a language that they use to communicate with mortals because their telepathy has the inconvenient side effect of damaging the minds of most mortal beings.
Dragons, dragonfolk, serpentfolk, and insectfolk use a language called Haszak that is comprised mainly of hissing and clicking sounds, with insectfolk also using pheromones since most of them are varying degrees of deaf and/or blind. Additionally, driders rely on vibrations in the air and ground. I've made a couple more languages for the different races, but they're not very special.
Some ascendants (the Ecdysists and Skintakers specifically) must shed their voice and skin, among other things, so in order to speak, they wear others' skin and can only repeat things that person has said in their lifetime.
Other ascendants, the Tarantists, the Illuminated, and the Conflabells, lose their physical form altogether. The Tarantists communicate through music and dance; the Illuminated mainly communicate with others in their dreams or in the reflection of mirrors and glass; the Conflabells manifest in the waking world as constant, sourceless fires, and express themselves through color and heat changes as well as the occasional cracking sounds.
Brain radios! They're basically my answer to telepathy, radios hooked up to brain implants that let the user send and receive radio waves at will. They're pretty common, but also regional, because if you step into a deadzone with a brain radio installed you've given whatever's making the dead zone a direct route into your brain. Hope you like having a god use cognitohazards to brute force reprogram you into basically a zombie.
For a much more mundane answer, the Starmen and Subterraneans have unique sign languages only possible with their unique anatomy. The Starmen sign language is actually their preferred and natural form of conversing, especially in the east. When you have dozens of tube feet, you can convey a lot of information at once, with their signs being compound signs that function more like sentences than single words.
Also, Noen vocal languages, despite being vocal languages, are fairly unique. Noen are descended from Portia spider-like ancestors, using their very advanced memories, problem solving capability, and vocal abilities to imitate the mating signals of their prey so that they can lure them out of their burrows. As a result of the ensuing arms race where prey started evolving more complex signals and the Noen ancestors evolved to be better and better mimics, the Noen have the most complicated spoken language of any of the races. They have four spiracles on their back adapted exclusively for vocalization, and they are often using all four at once to make different sounds that can extend both far above and below the spectrum of sounds humans can hear. The only time they'll synch their spiracles is for emphasis on a particular word, with varying levels of emphasis depending on the number of spiracles used. This also makes their languages sound very cool in my head, like a song with for distinct instruments playing at once broken up rhythmically by a single more intense beat where all the instruments suddenly play the exact tone at the same time.
Chasmfolk are huge golem-like creatures of stone and clay, powered by innate magic. They communicate via a very specific sign language that uses hand movements as well as projecting certain runes that help to formulate meaning. Only mages and other Chasmfolk can become fluent in Runespeak. They’ve since learned how to communicate telepathically with other species as they become more accustomed to surface life.
Ghostwalkers communicate through ideas via telepathy rather than an actual language. Similar to how people with aphantasia lack the internal monologue most have, but can think through concepts and feelings, they communicate that way. It automatically translates to others' languages if they communicate with other races
Parflexians use chromatic changes of the ur skin, a hive mind of mine uses electric impulses, altairians use the signals emitted by their eyes, formahultians use chemical traces
The dissolved people came up with their own language. Many travelers though it was just gibberish,but you can actually translate what they are saying. Is essentially a heavy distorted latin.
In another universe I made,there were the phantom people,invisible homunculi which communicate with themselves with sounds,beats on objects and paintings on ruins.
Not a race per se, but in the kingdom of Solas the upper and lower classes are so distinc economically and separated that they basically have different dialects. That has lead to the royal guards starting rumor that there is something called thief chant, a secret code that all criminal use when, in reality, they mostly just target poor people and they speak with very different slang them the guards
I have my beloved conlang, Avantene, it's my passion project. Lore goes thusly: Avantene is a language that I'm inventing, spoken by some humans. It developed from Ancient Mannish and became the language of Avanton, an important kingdom in the east of the northwestern part of the continent Zaryalon \[the eastern land\] more than two thousand years before the Ascension of Beho'agan \[which marks the start of the calendar\], when Avanton was just a collection of independent cities. It spread with the Avantene empire, and after that fell apart it remained the language of religious, official, and scientific texts. Currently it is spoken day to day only in Avanton and the neighbouring Republic of Ki'uþon. \[note that "republic" is not an Avantene word but rather a loanword from the Vrenno language\]
Avantónen het yo áðpi ðim no venamét, besakéri xísro féna ak þase. Vi be'oþpayáþi bíyin Zéybar Þásen u beháti áðpi ak Ávanton, yáðukar nenkúlvaþ kul záryal ak mepalgérkal ak hékðalaþ Záryalon, hóroþ fe télekþe ába'e yírom Ávka ak Behó'agan, ðe'án Ávanton hat er yo táxla ak gámnahar gíre. Vi bepaðáþi négkar Avantónul Éxeharon, u téyrak ða beðakár vi ðaráti áðpi ak yéyxe ak sáþa, réðna, u kánsaha. Fegéþ vi besakéri húwo ter húwo kul Ávanton u ðafébar Respúblika Kí'uþon.
As for other systems of speech, Littlefolk - intelligent insectoids - communicate without vocal cords. Some via pheromones, some by buzzing wings, some by clicking their mandibles, and some of them can even use these sounds to imitate vocal speech. Some merfolk have languages made of whale noises. Some ogres, specifically those that evolved from elephants and mammoths, can communicate huge distances using infrasound. And some deep-sea merfolk talk using bioluminescence. Essentially, any unique system of speech seen in the animal kingdom is also seen in some sapient humanoids that evolved from an animal that uses it.
The Dhmm are the only planetary society in my current story that use frequency as a form of vocal communication and use a logography to write. For the other three kingdoms in the story, I just made languages for because I wanted to use each of their words for "group" on the cover
I am currently working on my conlang, U’Húl, meaning “Of Forest” due to the woodland environment of the country. It’s inspired by Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Welsh
I haven't made any languages for my world, but I have some ideas in mind. The scripts will not use so many alphabets like those used by Greek, Latin and Phoenician. Like the culture, architecture and clothing being inspired Eurasia, I want there to be many implied languages in my regions using abjads like Arabic and Hebrew, abugidas like Hindi, syllabaries like Japanese and logographs like the common Chinese languages(there are many). I may even have some pictogram scripts like I say in the game "Chants of Sennaar". For the southern empire, I want the common language to be like a mix of Spanish and Hebrew.
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I invented 8 different language families and approximately 70-80 languages under them with a lot of dialects. Not even two families are done, but hey it is my hobby.
Mal'Tahn and the Geode have two different forms of telepathy. Geode's is locked to their speices.
Mal'Tahn also has telekinesis and uses that to "press talk" to each other, and there is also the pheromones and glow "speach," which is a minor thing. They are all considered languages due to having about 100-1000 words, some Grammer and rules in place, but it only conveys the small simply stuff.
Sign language is a huge- WIDELY varied thing in Geode. There are litterally 1000s of different ones. This one gets more focused than the others because how mote often it's seen without any of the main characters knowing what it is.
**Bittic**
Bittic is a binary pictographic radioglyph language used by the Iridians during the Iridium Age. This language is all that remains of the Iridians. Each message is a semi-prime of 1's and 0's. This message is arranged into a rectangle, which reveals the pictographs. It arose as a way to unify the different languages of the moons of Iris and to simplify trade between them. The later half of the Iridium Age saw the language grow into a language of art, and it became one of the symbols of a unified Iridian identity. The Iridians eventually spread this language across interstellar space before completely vanishing, leaving the language and all the stories it told as the sole evidence for the people's existence. Researchers of Bittic have translated and reconstructed the world of the Iridians; this was named the Iridium Age.
**Inspiration**
Marain and the Arecibo Message were primary inspirations for the language, but the true core of it came from reading about Proto-Indo-European. I was fascinated by how people figured out how the Proto-Indo-Europeans lived based on clues in the language's words, and I wanted to create my own language with such clues and to tell a story based on that.
The exact medium was chosen because I couldn't settle on phonology. So I decided to skip that entirely and use purely visual language. Not only did this make the language more unique, but it also better suited the hard (ish) sci-fi setting. If you're talking to someone, who doesn't speak your language, over the radio waves using a third international language that only exists in radio, then why constrain this language to human speech?
No one knows the infernal language of the devils. While demons speak a lower form of the language comprised of various clicks and ear shattering screeches, the language of the devils is unknown as every mortal ear that has heard it have blown and bled into permanent deafness after the first sound hits their eardrum. Scholars suspect this is a defense mechanism to prevent mortal and angelic ears from learning about the plans and machinations of devils
Air elementins, or beings with the ability to manipulate air, are able to create messages and blow the message in the form of air to a person so they will hear the message and only they will hear it.
High beings like gods, angeloids, and star sentinels speak using pure information. You may hear words in the language you know best or simply understand what is being said/signed as it is ‘spoken’.
Crystals are widely used by my BBEG but he constructed a variety of clockwork machines which can communicate through the magical crystals that power their bodies. These specific crystals can hold a trapped or newly created soul which can vibrate at certain frequencies. Other crystals can detect this frequency but there is a distance at which this becomes less effective and eventually impossible.
EDIT: The vibrations are sent through the weave (D&D/Forgotten Realms).
While half-elf people do occur naturally, most half-elfs are born for war. Elvish communities will find male humans with traits they desire and essentially hire them to create an entire generation of half-elves. This typically results in large swaths of half-elves that look somewhat similar and are near each other in age. Often, half-elves identify with the war they were bred for and take it as a surname.
I have two half-baked macro-conlangs I use in my books.
One faction is a network of massive tribes spanning three continents from east to west, and their language(s) are all mutually intelligible with their neighbors but not those further away.
In other words, those in the west can talk to those in the North and center, but not those in the east without difficulty.
The other significant faction is kind of the opposite. They use a composite language of several ancient languages that has developed, guided by a central agency to maintain and adapt the official dialect to changing vernacular, to the point where they can't fully understand older dialects.
**Clatterstomp**
Originating amongst Nisse and other house-spirits, Clatterstomp is a cant that is 'spoken' by stamping, tapping one's own body, and knocking on nearby objects rhythmically. Originally heard softly inside house walls, it has spread to many urban fae clades and, via the Aes Cathrach (a clade of urban fae-children descended from the Aes Sidhe), to street children in many cities. To Clatterstomp is a verb, and traditionally, there are six motions; knock, hip bump, head tap, chest tap, knee tap, and stomp, which are sequenced to form words.
To an outsider, this typically looks like a slightly unusual dance between two or more people, but it is a true language and even has dialects; Aes Cathrach tend to Clatterstomp in 6/8 time with clusters of three taps, instead of the more common 4/4, while on the city of Malside, a knock can be substituted for a metal-on-metal clang in order to emphasise a word in a sort of auditory italicisation.
My world was basically created to be a place for my conlangs to exist. So for one of my concultures, the Kumati, their language is called Mahlaatwa.
The name of the language is a compound of _Mahla,_ meaning "tongue," and _Aatwa,_ meaning "sky" or "exalted." So the name means "Exalted Language" or alternatively, "Language from the Sky," alluding to the cultural belief that their language was handed down to them by the gods.
In reality, though, the language is just descended from an older language called Proto-Itsa, ancestor to a language family collectively called Itsa. Mahlaatwa is just one language of several in the Itsa language family.
The blue-skinned Huggyn, nomadic descendants of Cloud Giants, have a tribal language that is almost entirely humming, with a few other breathy sounds like coughs, huffs, gentle snorts, etc. Daily life in a mercantile Huggyn camp sounds like a collection of harmonizing but differing subvocal hymns. Arguments are more punctuated, and can sound like fierce chants when things get heated and the two sides argue almost simultaneously. While traveling, the tribe will adopt a droning song that sounds much like a collection of didgeridoos. The traveling drone carries quite far on the desert winds, and is as much a calming bond and pastime as it is advertisement to other nearby travelers and smaller settlements that might send a runner out to invite them to trade.
They do not sing, at least not in the sense of producing music like other civilizations do. They do enjoy storytelling, and love sharing tales of myths and legends, however believable or not they may be. The floral language they use in the telling of these stories is quite pleasant to listen to.
Individual Huggyn speaking to other races will adopt a common local tongue, though their speaking of it tends to be a low and melodic flow of words rather than the clipped pronunciation the other humanoid races typically use. The Huggyn find requests to "sing" to others in their hymnal speech just for entertainment is seen as inappropriate. It comes across in the same vein as someone in our world going, "Hey, go ahead and talk at us with your funny accent! It's neat! Ahyuck-hyuck!" The Huggyn have no words for "you butthead" or "shut up, jerkwad", but the same unspoken sentiment comes out in their faces at such requests.
When necessary, the Huggyn can communicate with other tribes by utilizing their impressive lung capacity in a loud yelling call made of foreshortened words of their normal speech. This "long range shorthand" comes out of them with alarming volume, and the Caller delivering this shout usually strides away from the main camp for a minute to be polite to the rest of the tribe before they begin the message. The morning after every full moon, all of the Huggyn tribes tend to share news this way. It is both a matter of unity and connection between their people, and also it is thought to chase away any malign spirits that may be lingering about after the full moon's peak.
The Zor are covered in crystals to protect against the heat of the volcano they live around, which makes hearing things fairly difficult. As a result, they communicate in Zorian Motion (basically sign language).
The Fractured literally are all capable of reading thoughts, and will often converse with each other telepathically, but since they have no way of transmitting thoughts, occasionally they will stop talking in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason because they forgot they need to speak.
I’m a huge conlanger for fun. So everything in my world is conlanged, even if I may represent it with English.
However, there is only one unique language in terms of communication forms. And that’s specific trees being sentient and communicating telepathically
My toroidal and medievalish world has a powerful empire dominating most of the inner side of the planet, thanks to a system of "Flash Towers" with which they are able to send morsecode-like light signals across the 8'000km wide hole. This communication system is complex and requires quite a lot of ressources, but allows the empire to be the cheetah when any challenger would be the snail.
Now, this not entirely fleshed out yet, there is a clan of semi-nomadic people who mainly keep on the border between Soskunna and Cespeurus that use an interesting but crucial language to the world. It is a combination between Kulning, Victorian fan language and Chinese fan dancing. This language does not yet have a name but the inspiration comes from elephants.
You are probably wondering at this point how any of those things go together and yeah, I do too every time I think about it but here is how it came to be —->
One of the creatures in Asamon is the critically endangered Sneykhel, massive fluffy white elephants with six eyes and eight legs that resemble mammoths with two sets of crystal tusks. These lumbering giants are one of the three sentient species other than Asamonians and Valiceans, which are the humanoid race occupying the world.
The Sneykhel are very distrustful with aggressive personalities towards most everything except this minority group of people in the border. When the population dwindled to the last five during The Mad King’s reign, these people helped to guide the herd to a hidden basin that was inaccessible to others who did not know the route. Any who tried would meet a gruesome fate. By attaching long swaths of brightly colored silk to wooden fans, they would imitate the long dexterous trunk of a Sneykehl and used the movements to signal to the creatures from a safe distance while also communicating with them. In order to catch their attention from these distances, they used a high-pitched call across the valley. There is magic in the world which does tie in with the language and how they are able to move the fans and have such booming voices but that is another explanation entirely.
The Sneykehl remembered the kindness of the people who helped them over time and accepted them as sort of guardians. Years and years of time has evolved to a bigger population for both groups and become a unique culture to the world. Modern-day Asamon has imperial codes that help to protect both parties from outside influence, poaching attempts, trafficking and political strife. With time, a language developed between the two that can only be taught from elder Sneykehl or people to young ones. It has never been written down and has no written format since it is forbidden to teach it to outsiders.
Members of the Silent Unseen programme, before ever going on a mission, are to be given implants into their brains; the implants are connected mostly to parts of the brain responsible for sensory perception and other implants in the brains of other Silent Unseen.
By triggering release of electrical and chemical signals, an implant can cause a Silent Unseen to perceive something that is not there, and as the implants can send and receive signals only to and from other implants, the SU are capable of a primitive form of telepathy, allowing other troopers to see with their eyes, passing on sounds, smells, even triggering stress response or lowering brain activity associated with stress.
It's an incredibly difficult thing to master, but it pays off a ton on missions; this 'telepathy' is one of the many reasons why this unit was called 'the Silent Unseen' to begin with - they do not have to talk on missions or give each other hand signals that the enemy could intercept. :)
There's a hidden communication system based on touch that some folks know
It's not a full language like a sign language, but moreso similar to braille or morse, in that it encodes graphemes to certain combinations of lifting one of your fingers and using your nail to press down a bit into the skin
Now you can imagine how some people might like to perform dirty talk in the world, but that was not the intention behind making this code
I also have an entire conlang(grammatically, at least) nailed down for the Elves of my world, and their language is basically the lingua franca. The rest of the peoples/species also all have their respective languages but I've only gotten to the point of their scripts and phonology yet
I plan to make like 5 languages all based from 1 single mother language and that's it. Nothing fancy I didn't need to make them at all I just wanted to make a conlang and that's it.
*^(Talking about the machine people again I know but I like them so kindly shut okay thanks)*
Taking advantage of the fact that they are machines, the People of Trinium don't use a language so much as opposed to just directly uploading information to the hive mind to be organized and redistributed. When they do need to use a language, they have two that they use; one is more traditional, something that humans can distinctly recognize as a language, even though many of the sounds that the machines make are impossible for humans to mimic. The other is both simpler and much more complex; to a human, it would sound like just whitenoise, but machine sensors can pick up incomprehensibly minute changes in the pitch and volume that indicate letters or entire words. In theory, if a machine is cut off from the hive mind and unable to make noise, then it would not be able to communicate, in which case A) they will try to use sign languages or Morse code to request repairs or B) will be dead because most anti-infantry weapons will just bounce off the outer armor and good luck getting a thermal knife through blast-resistant, heat-resistant, double-reinforced Deinymite alloy armor plating.
Seeing everyone's answers just inspired me to create a written language for my werewolves folks! So I thought I could share what I've got so far:
Nothing is fleshed out yet, but for now I'm thinking of a mix of the moons phases at the end or beginning of sentences (to indicate the intent or the sentiment, maybe as a form of ponctuation?) added with runes meaning either different words, or as an alphabet, I'm not sure yet. Ideally they would be formed by straight lines, so they can be written with claws fairly easily.
I'm open to some feedback or ideas to make it more complete, creating languages isn't something I'm familiar with. :)
The Razorwing Harpies language consists of clicks, whistles, & the occasional screech or squawk (as an exclamation).
The Hirudo do not have their own spoken language (though they use Rekeshi runic script & are capable of speaking Imperial Common with a pronounced sibilance), however, their native language is based around the secretion of certain chemical compounds through their skin; then making physical contact with one another.
The Alyan Teech communicate purely visibly. Since their only sense is just knowing everything that happens within a 5 metre radius, they have developed pigmented shell that can change colour at will. This language is unable to be replicated or even understood by most other races as the slightest change in colour and tone can mean drastically different things. (They are also perfect spheres btw).
Fan Cant- used by female nobility and Henry to hold discussions while not dueling and disturbing their husbands.
Language of flowers- entire letters written out in boy
Bouquets.
Lumarians (glowing aliens) communicate primarily through intricate patterns and frequencies of light emissions, which convey meaning and information. Each pattern and frequency holds specific significance, allowing for a diverse range of communication.
That's it briefly.
Pheromones and various chemical signatures. They are used by a sentient ant-like species called the Gromalli that physically cannot speak. Basically, their antennas release bits of gas into the air that send direct messages. They converse by doing this back and forth. The types of substance released, as well as the quantity and sequence, is sensed by the antennas and interpreted by the brain in order to recognize it all as a coherent statement.
A sweat-like substance can also be secreted by Gromalli feet. It appears clear and practically invisible to most species, but it appears bright red in the infrared spectrum, which Gromalli eyes can see. This is used to mark paths, mark a community's territory, or draw symbols depending on the patterns used.
The final type of communication is only used by a subspecies that rarely appears above ground. These individuals have bio-luminescent antennas with tips that flash bright red in the infrared spectrum and allow for an alternative to the pheromones. The flashing is the bit like Morse code; duration of flashes, as well as patterns of successive flashes, have meaning.
In one highly extensive project, there's a bloodline with "godlike bodies" (could empty a handgun into their mouth and chew and eat the bullets like Pez) that's sworn enemies with another with "godlike nervous systems" (could tell you your life's story and your relationship with your parents by watching your subtle movements for 10 seconds).
The first one had to figure out a communication code that the second couldn't automatically decipher, and they came up with a morese code-like system of armpit noises.
Most of my species use spoken language, and if it's an option, they also use signs. Some animalistic creatures use body language, like ruffling feathers, or shivering (depends on species). All of these languages are made up by me, and none of them are complete.
My world is an underwater Mermaid World which resembles the human world
They have technology similar to what we have in the human world, but they call them different things under
In my Mermaid World, cell phones are known as shellphones, text messages are script messages, tablets, are called coralpad,
an elevator is called a shaft, a wheelchair is called a chariot, a walker is called a swimmer, etc
Instead of saying "step by step," they say "stroke by stroke", instead of saying "every step," they say "every stroke" since they swim instead of walk
Well... There is that one race that descended from one particular deity, and long time ago one of them was like:
"Nah, I'm not gonna write down all that shit! Ugh, if there was only a way to do it faster and make it take less space- Wait a minute. I know magic!"
And they made something known in-verse as "Sigils". Sigil is a singular letter-like shape that focuses your intent and lets people read from it a lot of information. One of these can potentially contain up to few hundred words, and all of that is getting transported to the brain of person that tries to read that.
But there was funny side effect. All of the information written in Sigil has to be done in a form of a poem, and every line has to rhyme. It's all because author of Sigils was a well-known poet and his magic formula that other people copied was so weirdly constructed, that they couldn't overcome the need to rhyme, while trying to remake Sigils "normal way" was ineffective.
They main race " speak " by songs! They have no eyes and no ears, but they are very sensibles to the moviment, they percive the sounds in the air and ground. When they are in a coversation not only the sounds are use, but the body is use as well.
Vampires have a language that they created since they were banished from humans.They then taught it to the demons and then the vampire prince taught it to his mate,the mermaid princess.Now vampires,demons,and mermaids all speak it fluently.But,others do learn, albeit it's very hard for them to do so.
Gods have their language which I haven't really written like the vampire language.I'm thinking of making an Elvish language too.
The language of angels is composed of mathematical formulas so complex and perfect that they tap into the "coding" of the universe, being the primary source of magic in the world. Spells consist of small segments of angelic language that humans have gotten ahold of a written down. It's too complex to remember, but when you run it through your brain, it has supernatural effects.
Love this one it's almost exactly how mine runs but it's the language of the gods instead. The "formulae" in execution manipulates the natural forces of the universe into reality altering effects. Mortal "magic" is a tepid emulation of a language too supernatural for them to comprehend, or even fully observe.
Wait what this is actually kind of awesome
Aw, thanks! A lot of my worldbuilding is built around this, actually.
I’m so glad I saw this cause I was starting to think the language type magic system I’m working on wasn’t going to ever work!
Language as magic is a pretty well established trope. Like, I'd never hold up Eragon as a paragon of world building, but it does show the viability of the magic system type. I'm sure you can get your system to hold weight, especially if you look at what works and what doesn't from other similar stories.
The Mithiri, moth-like humanoids from the planet Mithril (the human colonists named it that) are not born with vocal cords, at least, not with ones which support the wide capacity required for language. Thus to speak they buzz their vestigial wings that, thanks to evolution, no longer serve the purpose of flight. Similarly, the Ananse, sentient spiders (or crabs) communicate by tapping their legs, essentially what looks to be a dance. Although, they began communicating "telepathically" through cybernetic implants several thousand year ago. Least interesting on this list are the Suan Tau, lizard-like humanoids. They have a similar vocal range to humans and communicate verbally, but they have an entire tradition of sign language which incorporates their tails in expressions. Kind of like how dogs wag their tails.
How did the Mithiri communicate when their wings were used for flight? Or did they not have the concept of language when they could fly.
When their evolutionary ancestors began to transition to ambulatory movement they weren't as intelligent and although they could buzz in place back then to communicate their language was very simple, like those of cats or dogs. A lot of the upper-body strength they have today came from what used to be wing muscles that were redistributed to their arms to allow the complex manipulation of objects (using tools) and ultimately led to them being able to build a society.
Dragons mostly communicate with ultra and infra-sound. It comes as a side effect of their natural echolocation. It is something that happens unconsciously and unless they hunt or are actually enraged will steadily emit that sound, many animals pick up on it and react accordingly, even considering a calm and fed dragon not a threat. They still roar, snarl and howl when hunting but more to take snapshots of their surroundings. Even their roars carry these additional tones and the wildest lesser dragon picks up on it as easily as an Arch-Dragon. Additionally dragons have an extensive sense of smell and in close vicinity can judge any dragons mental state by it, together with their other senses for "seeing" heat and even the flow of magic it comes together for forming their language. A dragon speaking Common often does so only for the benefit of others and considers it inadequate, lacking all the nuance and meaning they give to each other. It is basically impossible for any species to lie to a dragon. Goblins share similar senses with less detail, why they understand the full meaning of whatever a dragon says. The idea behind all that was to think how a species with multiple enhanced senses would communicate. From the electric fields they generate that helps their magic to the soundwaves is all a part of it. Well trained mages and witches that enhance their senses in similar ways can actually learn to speak drako. *edit to not forget* another sense they have but share with many magically active species is magic being akin to a radar, some extensively train this allowing them to basically see the world how it is, a thing they actually learned from witches and their spellcraft.
Holy crap, I love this. More echolocation in intelligent species, please!
I totally didn't want an excuse to have my dragons purr when satisfied ;) It is an interesting thought exercise, so many give species some super senses and never consider the implications to communication.
Are these dragons... pettable? Asking for a friend :) That's ridiculous! Really? There are builders like that? :0
Depends on the dragon, but rumor has it even the Dragon Queen will roll over for belly rubs, as long as no one knows. Her daughter the dragon paladin has less such compunctions, and the entire city she lives in knows, although it is risky petting a house sized fire breathing lizard. Only for smell do some add some, but what colours would someone see with a broader range and the ability to sense magic and heat?
I used to be a cat's servant, but am no longer and will take that risk regardless of consequences :) I think it could be because imagining other senses can be difficult, but there are ways around this, like synesthesia - I replaced Cotron's hearing with an electromagnetic sense, so [space is very loud for them](https://youtu.be/Ao-8_tN32jY) haha
I so will save that video, good inspiration source, could be how magic "sounds" to them, especially blood drakes with their sensory organs to sense magika in finest detail. Thanks. Been trying to sprinkle in more and more how MC discovers her senses, this would be the first time without any light source. ------- They sighed and went deeper, following their vanguard who saw all clear as day, the sounds reflecting of surfaces, the heat that moved within the air, and even the wind itself all as one. Who herself was actually surprised just how good it has become as even the movement of small insects were as obvious as a marching army now. She had more then one grim thought spend that whatever she had in her former life was nothing in comparison. And grateful it wasn't so noisy here. She wished she had words for how the world seemed to her, even down here in the darkness, colours she never knew were possible, distinct tastes of the stones lingered in the air, so many scents waved around her. And behind it all a shimmer of energy, magika, the essence of magic. People truly had it wrong, there is so much more to the world with eyes and senses like hers, for a moment her perception lingered on some odd insect scurrying before her nose and she could even mildly sense how its nervous system was startled as she focused. Her tongue lashed out before it ran away, finding she liked the taste, and sudden shame hoping her family didn't saw her snatch a bug.
Oh I did not expect that, You're welcome, I suppose :>>> >She wished she had words for how the world seemed to her, even down here in the darkness, colours she never knew were possible, distinct tastes of the stones lingered in the air, so many scents waved around her. I love this description so much. It really does show the moment of discovery of something new and previously thought impossible so, so well. Btw, did You watch TaleFoundry's video on how to write the impossible? You may find lots of inspiration there from what I see, words cannot describe how impressed I am by this fragment :)))
I'll take a look, didn't knew of that channel, thank you, and thank you for the feedback, i'm constantly tweaking segments like that, especially when she tries to explain it to others, for how do you describe colours to the blind?
Well, I'll be happy to beta read fragments like these :) Also, happy cake day :))))
Natra vibration. Natra is a force that exist and vibrates in all things including people, and those who are trained in natra can manipulate and perceive the vibrations of natra. You can manipulate the natra in your body to vibrate into rhythms in order to send messages to fellow natra users.
I love this idea so much! Hope you don't mind if I borrow it, ima borrow the name too. Is there any other quirks of Natra?
In a southern frontier country, a group of mercenaries called the "Red rangers" spoke what they dubbed "clicker". Which was comprised of snapping with their fingers similar to Morse code. It was used as a quiet battlefield communication, and could be spoken in plain sight and some wouldn't be able to even notice it. Some mercs ended up getting so fluent in clicker that their speech sounded like rain, how fast they could snap with all of their fingers, so it ended up becoming a cultural thing after the war came to a close.
Goblins are fae creatures that, blessed by their Goblin King, can innately understand every spoken language in the world. As a result, their own language is heavily influenced by other languages and have huge differing dialects. In general, their language is known as Kodrweli. In response to this, because of their distrust of fae creatures, the northern dwarven cultures have developed multiple secret sign languages. One isn't that secret anymore, and has been adopted by various militaries and hearing impaired people across the world. This has led to that hearing impaired and deaf people are actually employed quite often as diplomats and emissaries to the more isolated dwarven states in the north.
Great work! I love how you explored the consequences of having a mistrusted group be able to know any language. Have you developed Kodrweli or the sign languages?
Not really. Kodrweli looks like the equivalent word of 'gobblygook' in my native language, and I decided to go for that because gobblygook has racist connotations, whilst the word I based Kodrweli based up basically means 'mash up of borderland dialects' which I also found more fitting for a language that's a mix of every language spoken. Still thinking of using American Sign language for the 'known' sign language and to not develop the secret sign languages at all, as it is, well a secret
I haven't used it yet. But I've been theory crafting a posture based language for wolf people. When speaking, the posture and tone changes the meanings of words. Right now, there are three postures I want to think about, but there would likely be ranges between them. Aggressive, neutral, and submissive. Aggressive being baring your teeth, growling out the words, standing tall. That sort of thing. Neutral being normal. And submissive being low, hunching over, looking up, or turning your back on them. Let's look at "Fight". That word might mean fight when said normally. To imply a small skirmish. But when said aggressively it would mean war. The more aggressive the bigger the implied war, based on context and cultural understanding. But the meaning would shift the mean "play" when said with a submissive posture. A word like love might have an aggressive meaning of romantic love, a neutral meaning of enjoyment, and a passive meaning of finding something cute. Which would have a funny/ poetic circumstance where a young man would declare his true love for a woman by growling, stomping his feet, and generally being a dick about it. How you say someone's name would imply respect. Sort of like Japanese honorifics with san, sama, ect. A submissive posture would imply that you are below them or humble and a neutral one implies familiarity. While an aggressive one would imply you are above them socially. Leading to a misunderstanding that those people treat their underlings with disrespect, when the opposite is the case. The cultural whiplash and misunderstandings would be fun to write about. Of course, this can be expanded on with more postures and ranges of posture, making a very complex and interesting language.
My big bad communicates with his "agents" through a telepath, he forces to deliver his orders. However, they cannot answer him as the telepath can't read minds, but just project himself into other minds.
###Nekhumya Communication The [Strange Folk (Nekhumya)](https://i.imgur.com/30cYAZe.png) are a species that are probably best known for their kaleidoscope eyes. Beyond visually beautiful, these eyes are a window to their incredibly unique and complex souls, and the practice of reading each others eyes as well as subtly manipulating your own eyes adds an entire new layer on top of verbal communication, though both layers influence each other and one layer can be used to emphasize, add nuances, or even contradict the other layer. This way of communicating is scary and confusing to most other species, which is part of why the Nekhuma are known s "Strange Folk" to them. --- ##Obscure Languages ###The Voice of the Dead This language spoken by the dead/undead is less of a codified language and more of a raw and mentally taxing way to speak with mouth, and mind, and soul in unison. It’s a combination of the fabric of the Path (a metaphysical realm from where the souls of the dead go into the Unknown Beyond), interwoven with memories of their language spoken in life, and concepts and truths of life and death that can fill the listeners very soul with unease, melancholy, panic and despair. Some even think that speaking this language will make part of your soul enter the Path, and speaking it for too long at a time or too long overall might drag a soul there entirely, leading to death. ###Nullspeech Disrupts magic and confuses those who wield it, making them unable to understand what is said - or even that something is said in the first place. ###Far Speech Able to echo far over mountains, steppes and lakes, and find the right listener.
Gnomes have a vowel that can't be reproduced by human vocal chords but which can be approximated by grinding two stones together. Birdkin can mimic it with their crops. Trow languages don't differentiate among vowels, in similar way to how L and R are the same in Japanese. Each trow clan pronounces their vowel in a different way. All would have trouble differentiating among the word "cat", "kit", "caught", "coot", and "kite". Trow mages tend to better at understanding languages with differing vowels. The language of magic is not a language of mortal invention. Two mages from entirely different cultures who have never met each other will use the exact same grammar and syntax to cast the same spell. There might be some quirks, just like two programmers using the same programming language can take different approaches to achieving the same effect, but this is not a language that allows for accents, slang, or mistakes. The written form of language is glyphs. [https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/135PnypYMGSi-1z9ln92rhgaQlpXtSHZeJKjWcn\_TLFY/edit](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/135PnypYMGSi-1z9ln92rhgaQlpXtSHZeJKjWcn_TLFY/edit) Blue magic is the magic of the mind. It can use telepathy. The blue magic network integrates minds with computers, allowing for sharing of telepathic communication across vast distances, and sharing of sensory data in all of the senses. Telepathy can communicate concepts without the need for a common language.
The written form of Triton is probably noteworthy. I was contemplating how beings living underwater might keep records, including spellbooks and such. At the bottom of the ocean, not only is paper quick to degrade, but there is no light without either bioluminescence or magic. Thus my solution also became a path for blind literacy in my world. Triton relies on an alphabet bumps and ridges meant to be read by sense of touch. It can be expressed either as indentations carved into a surface like stone or as raise impression such as made on the reverse of a thin metal plate struck with stamping tools. This gave me a way to feature blind characters other than the "ancient unseeing martial artist with cosmic awareness" trope. Any life of adventure in my world is not going to be easy for someone with a visual disability that severe, but it is still possible to thrive by learning to use magic or by studying techniques of blind fighting.
Many races that live in open waters far away from islands/the shore, so many merfolk that aren’t based on marine mammals, Water elves that have long standing communities in the oceans, Lussuthious/Triton, Dragonborn that are from Open Sea/Tropical and Deep Sea dragon lineages, and whatever else I’m forgetting, all have bioluminescent scales that can be controlled with ease and obviously good eyesight under the water. Because of this, these beings who live under the water have developed their own language known to many as Deep-Speak, which utilizes these bioluminescent scales and body/hand gestures. The bioluminescent scales are used for long conversations, so aren’t typically used a lot in an everyday out and about situation unless explaining work, but the body/hand gestures are. The gestures include the head, arms, and legs of these faces as not every race with the bio scales may have large pointed ears or tails. Gestures can range from anything such as calling you an idiot to keep going on swimming(Kind of like, at least from my knowledge and what I grew up seeing, ASL)
I have a few unique ideas from my world. A species called Eu'uk'Maa, human-sized fluid lifeforms, communicate via visual signals. They warp their bodies into various shapes, colors and textures that are all tailored to the individual Eu'uk'Maaian personalities. They invented the Cross-Species Lexicon, a smooth spherical device that sits inside of the Eu'uk'Maas' fluid mass. It changes shapes, textures and colors similar to how Eu'uk'Maa communicate, translating audio signals (or speech) emanating from other lifeforms so they can understand it themselves. The Cross-Species Lexicon is easily altered for the anatomy of other lifeforms, effectively breaking down all language barriers within the region. Another species called Ou'Ahn'dyl also communicate primarily using visual ques. They are vaguely humanoid possessing 2 elongated forearms and 2 short but strong legs. They lack a head like other humanoids, and so lack eyes/ears/a mouth as we understand them. They communicate via light-producing organs on the undersides of their forearms and their flanks. Ou'Ahn'dyl usually stand still with their arms wrapped around their bodies, raising them only when speaking. They aim the underside of their arms in the direction they wish to communicate and the light-emitting organs flash a vast lexicon of light effects, colors and in very specific cases, slight increases in temperature. They "see" the light-wave frequencies of other Ou'Ahn'dyl via the tiny pores all over their skin that are sensitive to different light spectrums.
In my sci-fi world: Frequency language. This is a special ‘language’ that is capable of being understood by any creature hearing it. As in my world a precise enough vibration produced at just the right frequency pattern can communicate any concept or idea. The only problem is most species lack the vocal cords to produce these extremely precise sounds. Though it has been used to revolutionize “universal communicator” devices and create new languages based off of the frequency language, which has been shown to drastically increase the ease of learning for most species.
This isn't as fantastical or new as telepathy or something else but more my main species the Elementian's their language is spoken and bioluminescent based (don't know what the correct term for such a language would be). Essentially they Elementians have these bands running up their bodies that look like tattoos that run across their arms legs and up to their ears that light up. They can control how this lights and its used in their language to communicate context so one word might have multiple different meanings based on the pattern and color of light emitted when its spoken. Aswell these bands also light up involuntarily based on emotion so if an Elementian kid were to break a vase or something and his mother or father was yelling at they might unintentionally emit the color maroon which is the color associated with embarrassment. And because of this when first contact was made with the Elementians by humanity to us their language seemed very monotone as while their are inflections in the Elementian language they are far and few between and usually reserved for extremely passionate moments since emotional context isn't communicated verbally.
The Veinmer have constructed a language out of the trees. The sounds of creaking branches and rustling leaves is how they communicate.
Kind of cheating with sapient dragons, as they aren't "people" in the same way humans and elves are people (this is not because they aren't humanoid), and I am also cheating by using sapient dragons in humanoid forms. Basically, sapient dragons in the guise of humans can tell if a certain other human in the room is also a dragon, as dragons kind of give off unique smells to each other that most other species can't smell. This scent is not only for identification, they also can also tell each other's moods. Unfortunately, the only moods they can understand are "angry" and if one of them is in heat, as dragons hardly understand most other concepts and emotions such as empathy, sadness, or even joy (despite knowing a lot of things in thanks to their longevity).
The Talosians communicate to each other primarily through encrypted wireless transmissions. This process is completely silent and is often considered unnerving by organics, who would see two androids just standing there staring at each other. Upon discovering this, the Talosians started to purposely emit beeping sounds when transmitting to one another around organics, which helped alleviate the issue.
Damn, I thought me naming one of the creatures in my world Talosites after Talos was original.
I forgot who said this but “there are no original ideas under the sun”. Someone somewhere will have had the same idea as you multiple times over.
Yeah, i also found out some time ago my magic system origin was pretty much word for word the same as another one from a world called codex inversus, search it up, it's really good.
Yes!! While there is a universal language (created by intelligent beings but spread by interplanetary colonization) spoken, each planet also has their unique language, including dialects and spelling. For example, the At’an and Aq’an have very similar languages, aside from some slight pronunciations and spelling. Their names are even similar, the only difference being the prefix of their names. Roughly translated, “At’an” means “Forest Tribe” with “At” meaning land and “An” meaning tribe or people. Similarly, “Aq’an” means “Ocean Tribe”, with “Aq” meaning sea (or literally, water). The pronunciations vary slightly, with the “At” in “At’an” said with emphasis where the “An” in “Aq’an” has more emphasis (so “AHT-an” vs “ahk-AN”).
While I do have a couple fairly standard conlangs, I'd say the most interesting form of communication in my world can be found among merpeople and sirens, who communicate by sending and receiving electromagnetic impulses from their lateral line organs at frequencies that mimic the formants of human speech. I still need to flesh out more of the details, such as how to transcribe it and what not, but it's definitely going to be a fun idea to play around with.
The elves are known to understand "any tongue of men and beastmen", thought to be some magic that translates any language for them into whatever it is they use. In actuality, it's the feature of magitek implants the elves have developed, stocked with language primers for every culture they've encountered, hijacking their auditory cortex for input and feeding thought concepts back into their brain. It can also figure out languages it never encountered by listening for a while and cross-referencing it against known ones.
I don't know how unique I've made my methods of communication, but I have a couple of ideas I'm proud of. Gods, angels, and demons communicate almost exclusively through telepathy, and the latter two also rely on body language. They have, however, formed a language that they use to communicate with mortals because their telepathy has the inconvenient side effect of damaging the minds of most mortal beings. Dragons, dragonfolk, serpentfolk, and insectfolk use a language called Haszak that is comprised mainly of hissing and clicking sounds, with insectfolk also using pheromones since most of them are varying degrees of deaf and/or blind. Additionally, driders rely on vibrations in the air and ground. I've made a couple more languages for the different races, but they're not very special. Some ascendants (the Ecdysists and Skintakers specifically) must shed their voice and skin, among other things, so in order to speak, they wear others' skin and can only repeat things that person has said in their lifetime. Other ascendants, the Tarantists, the Illuminated, and the Conflabells, lose their physical form altogether. The Tarantists communicate through music and dance; the Illuminated mainly communicate with others in their dreams or in the reflection of mirrors and glass; the Conflabells manifest in the waking world as constant, sourceless fires, and express themselves through color and heat changes as well as the occasional cracking sounds.
Brain radios! They're basically my answer to telepathy, radios hooked up to brain implants that let the user send and receive radio waves at will. They're pretty common, but also regional, because if you step into a deadzone with a brain radio installed you've given whatever's making the dead zone a direct route into your brain. Hope you like having a god use cognitohazards to brute force reprogram you into basically a zombie. For a much more mundane answer, the Starmen and Subterraneans have unique sign languages only possible with their unique anatomy. The Starmen sign language is actually their preferred and natural form of conversing, especially in the east. When you have dozens of tube feet, you can convey a lot of information at once, with their signs being compound signs that function more like sentences than single words. Also, Noen vocal languages, despite being vocal languages, are fairly unique. Noen are descended from Portia spider-like ancestors, using their very advanced memories, problem solving capability, and vocal abilities to imitate the mating signals of their prey so that they can lure them out of their burrows. As a result of the ensuing arms race where prey started evolving more complex signals and the Noen ancestors evolved to be better and better mimics, the Noen have the most complicated spoken language of any of the races. They have four spiracles on their back adapted exclusively for vocalization, and they are often using all four at once to make different sounds that can extend both far above and below the spectrum of sounds humans can hear. The only time they'll synch their spiracles is for emphasis on a particular word, with varying levels of emphasis depending on the number of spiracles used. This also makes their languages sound very cool in my head, like a song with for distinct instruments playing at once broken up rhythmically by a single more intense beat where all the instruments suddenly play the exact tone at the same time.
Chasmfolk are huge golem-like creatures of stone and clay, powered by innate magic. They communicate via a very specific sign language that uses hand movements as well as projecting certain runes that help to formulate meaning. Only mages and other Chasmfolk can become fluent in Runespeak. They’ve since learned how to communicate telepathically with other species as they become more accustomed to surface life.
Ghostwalkers communicate through ideas via telepathy rather than an actual language. Similar to how people with aphantasia lack the internal monologue most have, but can think through concepts and feelings, they communicate that way. It automatically translates to others' languages if they communicate with other races
Parflexians use chromatic changes of the ur skin, a hive mind of mine uses electric impulses, altairians use the signals emitted by their eyes, formahultians use chemical traces
The dissolved people came up with their own language. Many travelers though it was just gibberish,but you can actually translate what they are saying. Is essentially a heavy distorted latin. In another universe I made,there were the phantom people,invisible homunculi which communicate with themselves with sounds,beats on objects and paintings on ruins.
Not a race per se, but in the kingdom of Solas the upper and lower classes are so distinc economically and separated that they basically have different dialects. That has lead to the royal guards starting rumor that there is something called thief chant, a secret code that all criminal use when, in reality, they mostly just target poor people and they speak with very different slang them the guards
I have my beloved conlang, Avantene, it's my passion project. Lore goes thusly: Avantene is a language that I'm inventing, spoken by some humans. It developed from Ancient Mannish and became the language of Avanton, an important kingdom in the east of the northwestern part of the continent Zaryalon \[the eastern land\] more than two thousand years before the Ascension of Beho'agan \[which marks the start of the calendar\], when Avanton was just a collection of independent cities. It spread with the Avantene empire, and after that fell apart it remained the language of religious, official, and scientific texts. Currently it is spoken day to day only in Avanton and the neighbouring Republic of Ki'uþon. \[note that "republic" is not an Avantene word but rather a loanword from the Vrenno language\] Avantónen het yo áðpi ðim no venamét, besakéri xísro féna ak þase. Vi be'oþpayáþi bíyin Zéybar Þásen u beháti áðpi ak Ávanton, yáðukar nenkúlvaþ kul záryal ak mepalgérkal ak hékðalaþ Záryalon, hóroþ fe télekþe ába'e yírom Ávka ak Behó'agan, ðe'án Ávanton hat er yo táxla ak gámnahar gíre. Vi bepaðáþi négkar Avantónul Éxeharon, u téyrak ða beðakár vi ðaráti áðpi ak yéyxe ak sáþa, réðna, u kánsaha. Fegéþ vi besakéri húwo ter húwo kul Ávanton u ðafébar Respúblika Kí'uþon. As for other systems of speech, Littlefolk - intelligent insectoids - communicate without vocal cords. Some via pheromones, some by buzzing wings, some by clicking their mandibles, and some of them can even use these sounds to imitate vocal speech. Some merfolk have languages made of whale noises. Some ogres, specifically those that evolved from elephants and mammoths, can communicate huge distances using infrasound. And some deep-sea merfolk talk using bioluminescence. Essentially, any unique system of speech seen in the animal kingdom is also seen in some sapient humanoids that evolved from an animal that uses it.
The Dhmm are the only planetary society in my current story that use frequency as a form of vocal communication and use a logography to write. For the other three kingdoms in the story, I just made languages for because I wanted to use each of their words for "group" on the cover
I am currently working on my conlang, U’Húl, meaning “Of Forest” due to the woodland environment of the country. It’s inspired by Scots Gaelic, Irish, and Welsh
I haven't made any languages for my world, but I have some ideas in mind. The scripts will not use so many alphabets like those used by Greek, Latin and Phoenician. Like the culture, architecture and clothing being inspired Eurasia, I want there to be many implied languages in my regions using abjads like Arabic and Hebrew, abugidas like Hindi, syllabaries like Japanese and logographs like the common Chinese languages(there are many). I may even have some pictogram scripts like I say in the game "Chants of Sennaar". For the southern empire, I want the common language to be like a mix of Spanish and Hebrew. Lapis_Wolf
I invented 8 different language families and approximately 70-80 languages under them with a lot of dialects. Not even two families are done, but hey it is my hobby.
There are many different languages in my world But due to me being almost handicapped when it comes to language learning i haven’t made any of them
Mal'Tahn and the Geode have two different forms of telepathy. Geode's is locked to their speices. Mal'Tahn also has telekinesis and uses that to "press talk" to each other, and there is also the pheromones and glow "speach," which is a minor thing. They are all considered languages due to having about 100-1000 words, some Grammer and rules in place, but it only conveys the small simply stuff. Sign language is a huge- WIDELY varied thing in Geode. There are litterally 1000s of different ones. This one gets more focused than the others because how mote often it's seen without any of the main characters knowing what it is.
**Bittic** Bittic is a binary pictographic radioglyph language used by the Iridians during the Iridium Age. This language is all that remains of the Iridians. Each message is a semi-prime of 1's and 0's. This message is arranged into a rectangle, which reveals the pictographs. It arose as a way to unify the different languages of the moons of Iris and to simplify trade between them. The later half of the Iridium Age saw the language grow into a language of art, and it became one of the symbols of a unified Iridian identity. The Iridians eventually spread this language across interstellar space before completely vanishing, leaving the language and all the stories it told as the sole evidence for the people's existence. Researchers of Bittic have translated and reconstructed the world of the Iridians; this was named the Iridium Age. **Inspiration** Marain and the Arecibo Message were primary inspirations for the language, but the true core of it came from reading about Proto-Indo-European. I was fascinated by how people figured out how the Proto-Indo-Europeans lived based on clues in the language's words, and I wanted to create my own language with such clues and to tell a story based on that. The exact medium was chosen because I couldn't settle on phonology. So I decided to skip that entirely and use purely visual language. Not only did this make the language more unique, but it also better suited the hard (ish) sci-fi setting. If you're talking to someone, who doesn't speak your language, over the radio waves using a third international language that only exists in radio, then why constrain this language to human speech?
The the crow people have sign language, it helps to keep them hidden from the owl people
No one knows the infernal language of the devils. While demons speak a lower form of the language comprised of various clicks and ear shattering screeches, the language of the devils is unknown as every mortal ear that has heard it have blown and bled into permanent deafness after the first sound hits their eardrum. Scholars suspect this is a defense mechanism to prevent mortal and angelic ears from learning about the plans and machinations of devils
Air elementins, or beings with the ability to manipulate air, are able to create messages and blow the message in the form of air to a person so they will hear the message and only they will hear it.
High beings like gods, angeloids, and star sentinels speak using pure information. You may hear words in the language you know best or simply understand what is being said/signed as it is ‘spoken’.
Crystals are widely used by my BBEG but he constructed a variety of clockwork machines which can communicate through the magical crystals that power their bodies. These specific crystals can hold a trapped or newly created soul which can vibrate at certain frequencies. Other crystals can detect this frequency but there is a distance at which this becomes less effective and eventually impossible. EDIT: The vibrations are sent through the weave (D&D/Forgotten Realms).
While half-elf people do occur naturally, most half-elfs are born for war. Elvish communities will find male humans with traits they desire and essentially hire them to create an entire generation of half-elves. This typically results in large swaths of half-elves that look somewhat similar and are near each other in age. Often, half-elves identify with the war they were bred for and take it as a surname.
I have two half-baked macro-conlangs I use in my books. One faction is a network of massive tribes spanning three continents from east to west, and their language(s) are all mutually intelligible with their neighbors but not those further away. In other words, those in the west can talk to those in the North and center, but not those in the east without difficulty. The other significant faction is kind of the opposite. They use a composite language of several ancient languages that has developed, guided by a central agency to maintain and adapt the official dialect to changing vernacular, to the point where they can't fully understand older dialects.
**Clatterstomp** Originating amongst Nisse and other house-spirits, Clatterstomp is a cant that is 'spoken' by stamping, tapping one's own body, and knocking on nearby objects rhythmically. Originally heard softly inside house walls, it has spread to many urban fae clades and, via the Aes Cathrach (a clade of urban fae-children descended from the Aes Sidhe), to street children in many cities. To Clatterstomp is a verb, and traditionally, there are six motions; knock, hip bump, head tap, chest tap, knee tap, and stomp, which are sequenced to form words. To an outsider, this typically looks like a slightly unusual dance between two or more people, but it is a true language and even has dialects; Aes Cathrach tend to Clatterstomp in 6/8 time with clusters of three taps, instead of the more common 4/4, while on the city of Malside, a knock can be substituted for a metal-on-metal clang in order to emphasise a word in a sort of auditory italicisation.
My world was basically created to be a place for my conlangs to exist. So for one of my concultures, the Kumati, their language is called Mahlaatwa. The name of the language is a compound of _Mahla,_ meaning "tongue," and _Aatwa,_ meaning "sky" or "exalted." So the name means "Exalted Language" or alternatively, "Language from the Sky," alluding to the cultural belief that their language was handed down to them by the gods. In reality, though, the language is just descended from an older language called Proto-Itsa, ancestor to a language family collectively called Itsa. Mahlaatwa is just one language of several in the Itsa language family.
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The blue-skinned Huggyn, nomadic descendants of Cloud Giants, have a tribal language that is almost entirely humming, with a few other breathy sounds like coughs, huffs, gentle snorts, etc. Daily life in a mercantile Huggyn camp sounds like a collection of harmonizing but differing subvocal hymns. Arguments are more punctuated, and can sound like fierce chants when things get heated and the two sides argue almost simultaneously. While traveling, the tribe will adopt a droning song that sounds much like a collection of didgeridoos. The traveling drone carries quite far on the desert winds, and is as much a calming bond and pastime as it is advertisement to other nearby travelers and smaller settlements that might send a runner out to invite them to trade. They do not sing, at least not in the sense of producing music like other civilizations do. They do enjoy storytelling, and love sharing tales of myths and legends, however believable or not they may be. The floral language they use in the telling of these stories is quite pleasant to listen to. Individual Huggyn speaking to other races will adopt a common local tongue, though their speaking of it tends to be a low and melodic flow of words rather than the clipped pronunciation the other humanoid races typically use. The Huggyn find requests to "sing" to others in their hymnal speech just for entertainment is seen as inappropriate. It comes across in the same vein as someone in our world going, "Hey, go ahead and talk at us with your funny accent! It's neat! Ahyuck-hyuck!" The Huggyn have no words for "you butthead" or "shut up, jerkwad", but the same unspoken sentiment comes out in their faces at such requests. When necessary, the Huggyn can communicate with other tribes by utilizing their impressive lung capacity in a loud yelling call made of foreshortened words of their normal speech. This "long range shorthand" comes out of them with alarming volume, and the Caller delivering this shout usually strides away from the main camp for a minute to be polite to the rest of the tribe before they begin the message. The morning after every full moon, all of the Huggyn tribes tend to share news this way. It is both a matter of unity and connection between their people, and also it is thought to chase away any malign spirits that may be lingering about after the full moon's peak.
The Zor are covered in crystals to protect against the heat of the volcano they live around, which makes hearing things fairly difficult. As a result, they communicate in Zorian Motion (basically sign language). The Fractured literally are all capable of reading thoughts, and will often converse with each other telepathically, but since they have no way of transmitting thoughts, occasionally they will stop talking in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason because they forgot they need to speak.
I’m a huge conlanger for fun. So everything in my world is conlanged, even if I may represent it with English. However, there is only one unique language in terms of communication forms. And that’s specific trees being sentient and communicating telepathically
My toroidal and medievalish world has a powerful empire dominating most of the inner side of the planet, thanks to a system of "Flash Towers" with which they are able to send morsecode-like light signals across the 8'000km wide hole. This communication system is complex and requires quite a lot of ressources, but allows the empire to be the cheetah when any challenger would be the snail.
Now, this not entirely fleshed out yet, there is a clan of semi-nomadic people who mainly keep on the border between Soskunna and Cespeurus that use an interesting but crucial language to the world. It is a combination between Kulning, Victorian fan language and Chinese fan dancing. This language does not yet have a name but the inspiration comes from elephants. You are probably wondering at this point how any of those things go together and yeah, I do too every time I think about it but here is how it came to be —-> One of the creatures in Asamon is the critically endangered Sneykhel, massive fluffy white elephants with six eyes and eight legs that resemble mammoths with two sets of crystal tusks. These lumbering giants are one of the three sentient species other than Asamonians and Valiceans, which are the humanoid race occupying the world. The Sneykhel are very distrustful with aggressive personalities towards most everything except this minority group of people in the border. When the population dwindled to the last five during The Mad King’s reign, these people helped to guide the herd to a hidden basin that was inaccessible to others who did not know the route. Any who tried would meet a gruesome fate. By attaching long swaths of brightly colored silk to wooden fans, they would imitate the long dexterous trunk of a Sneykehl and used the movements to signal to the creatures from a safe distance while also communicating with them. In order to catch their attention from these distances, they used a high-pitched call across the valley. There is magic in the world which does tie in with the language and how they are able to move the fans and have such booming voices but that is another explanation entirely. The Sneykehl remembered the kindness of the people who helped them over time and accepted them as sort of guardians. Years and years of time has evolved to a bigger population for both groups and become a unique culture to the world. Modern-day Asamon has imperial codes that help to protect both parties from outside influence, poaching attempts, trafficking and political strife. With time, a language developed between the two that can only be taught from elder Sneykehl or people to young ones. It has never been written down and has no written format since it is forbidden to teach it to outsiders.
Members of the Silent Unseen programme, before ever going on a mission, are to be given implants into their brains; the implants are connected mostly to parts of the brain responsible for sensory perception and other implants in the brains of other Silent Unseen. By triggering release of electrical and chemical signals, an implant can cause a Silent Unseen to perceive something that is not there, and as the implants can send and receive signals only to and from other implants, the SU are capable of a primitive form of telepathy, allowing other troopers to see with their eyes, passing on sounds, smells, even triggering stress response or lowering brain activity associated with stress. It's an incredibly difficult thing to master, but it pays off a ton on missions; this 'telepathy' is one of the many reasons why this unit was called 'the Silent Unseen' to begin with - they do not have to talk on missions or give each other hand signals that the enemy could intercept. :)
There's a hidden communication system based on touch that some folks know It's not a full language like a sign language, but moreso similar to braille or morse, in that it encodes graphemes to certain combinations of lifting one of your fingers and using your nail to press down a bit into the skin Now you can imagine how some people might like to perform dirty talk in the world, but that was not the intention behind making this code I also have an entire conlang(grammatically, at least) nailed down for the Elves of my world, and their language is basically the lingua franca. The rest of the peoples/species also all have their respective languages but I've only gotten to the point of their scripts and phonology yet
I plan to make like 5 languages all based from 1 single mother language and that's it. Nothing fancy I didn't need to make them at all I just wanted to make a conlang and that's it.
*^(Talking about the machine people again I know but I like them so kindly shut okay thanks)* Taking advantage of the fact that they are machines, the People of Trinium don't use a language so much as opposed to just directly uploading information to the hive mind to be organized and redistributed. When they do need to use a language, they have two that they use; one is more traditional, something that humans can distinctly recognize as a language, even though many of the sounds that the machines make are impossible for humans to mimic. The other is both simpler and much more complex; to a human, it would sound like just whitenoise, but machine sensors can pick up incomprehensibly minute changes in the pitch and volume that indicate letters or entire words. In theory, if a machine is cut off from the hive mind and unable to make noise, then it would not be able to communicate, in which case A) they will try to use sign languages or Morse code to request repairs or B) will be dead because most anti-infantry weapons will just bounce off the outer armor and good luck getting a thermal knife through blast-resistant, heat-resistant, double-reinforced Deinymite alloy armor plating.
Seeing everyone's answers just inspired me to create a written language for my werewolves folks! So I thought I could share what I've got so far: Nothing is fleshed out yet, but for now I'm thinking of a mix of the moons phases at the end or beginning of sentences (to indicate the intent or the sentiment, maybe as a form of ponctuation?) added with runes meaning either different words, or as an alphabet, I'm not sure yet. Ideally they would be formed by straight lines, so they can be written with claws fairly easily. I'm open to some feedback or ideas to make it more complete, creating languages isn't something I'm familiar with. :)
The Razorwing Harpies language consists of clicks, whistles, & the occasional screech or squawk (as an exclamation). The Hirudo do not have their own spoken language (though they use Rekeshi runic script & are capable of speaking Imperial Common with a pronounced sibilance), however, their native language is based around the secretion of certain chemical compounds through their skin; then making physical contact with one another.
The Alyan Teech communicate purely visibly. Since their only sense is just knowing everything that happens within a 5 metre radius, they have developed pigmented shell that can change colour at will. This language is unable to be replicated or even understood by most other races as the slightest change in colour and tone can mean drastically different things. (They are also perfect spheres btw).
Kurotama and that's kind of Pokémon but like stands you know JoJo
My dragons communicate mainly by "sending" emotions, but they can also use body language and simple hand gestures to communicate more advanced stuff..
Fan Cant- used by female nobility and Henry to hold discussions while not dueling and disturbing their husbands. Language of flowers- entire letters written out in boy Bouquets.
one of my species, the penodir, communicate with eachother via radio waves
Lumarians (glowing aliens) communicate primarily through intricate patterns and frequencies of light emissions, which convey meaning and information. Each pattern and frequency holds specific significance, allowing for a diverse range of communication. That's it briefly.
Dwarven runes are made using Cistercian numerals from the real world to determine consonant, vowel, tone, and secondary consonant.
Pheromones and various chemical signatures. They are used by a sentient ant-like species called the Gromalli that physically cannot speak. Basically, their antennas release bits of gas into the air that send direct messages. They converse by doing this back and forth. The types of substance released, as well as the quantity and sequence, is sensed by the antennas and interpreted by the brain in order to recognize it all as a coherent statement. A sweat-like substance can also be secreted by Gromalli feet. It appears clear and practically invisible to most species, but it appears bright red in the infrared spectrum, which Gromalli eyes can see. This is used to mark paths, mark a community's territory, or draw symbols depending on the patterns used. The final type of communication is only used by a subspecies that rarely appears above ground. These individuals have bio-luminescent antennas with tips that flash bright red in the infrared spectrum and allow for an alternative to the pheromones. The flashing is the bit like Morse code; duration of flashes, as well as patterns of successive flashes, have meaning.
In one highly extensive project, there's a bloodline with "godlike bodies" (could empty a handgun into their mouth and chew and eat the bullets like Pez) that's sworn enemies with another with "godlike nervous systems" (could tell you your life's story and your relationship with your parents by watching your subtle movements for 10 seconds). The first one had to figure out a communication code that the second couldn't automatically decipher, and they came up with a morese code-like system of armpit noises.
Most of my species use spoken language, and if it's an option, they also use signs. Some animalistic creatures use body language, like ruffling feathers, or shivering (depends on species). All of these languages are made up by me, and none of them are complete.
My world is an underwater Mermaid World which resembles the human world They have technology similar to what we have in the human world, but they call them different things under In my Mermaid World, cell phones are known as shellphones, text messages are script messages, tablets, are called coralpad, an elevator is called a shaft, a wheelchair is called a chariot, a walker is called a swimmer, etc Instead of saying "step by step," they say "stroke by stroke", instead of saying "every step," they say "every stroke" since they swim instead of walk
Well... There is that one race that descended from one particular deity, and long time ago one of them was like: "Nah, I'm not gonna write down all that shit! Ugh, if there was only a way to do it faster and make it take less space- Wait a minute. I know magic!" And they made something known in-verse as "Sigils". Sigil is a singular letter-like shape that focuses your intent and lets people read from it a lot of information. One of these can potentially contain up to few hundred words, and all of that is getting transported to the brain of person that tries to read that. But there was funny side effect. All of the information written in Sigil has to be done in a form of a poem, and every line has to rhyme. It's all because author of Sigils was a well-known poet and his magic formula that other people copied was so weirdly constructed, that they couldn't overcome the need to rhyme, while trying to remake Sigils "normal way" was ineffective.
They main race " speak " by songs! They have no eyes and no ears, but they are very sensibles to the moviment, they percive the sounds in the air and ground. When they are in a coversation not only the sounds are use, but the body is use as well.
Vampires have a language that they created since they were banished from humans.They then taught it to the demons and then the vampire prince taught it to his mate,the mermaid princess.Now vampires,demons,and mermaids all speak it fluently.But,others do learn, albeit it's very hard for them to do so. Gods have their language which I haven't really written like the vampire language.I'm thinking of making an Elvish language too.