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(Headcanon) Language of Icathia; About damn time I got this posted...
Topic Started: Mar 14 2016, 09:04 PM (1,507 Views)
BetaDude40
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Hello there, people of factions.

Some of you probably already know what this is. To those people, thank you for helping me and providing encouragement for this helluva project. I seriously could not have done this alone. Also thank Theoretica for being the person who wrote like half of the shit in the dictionary and provided a lot of gooey headcanon and insight into the language itself.

Now, for those who don't know, I consider myself a halfway amateur linguist of some strange sort. Sometimes I will find myself curious about other languages, and I will look them up to find their origins, writing, and grammatical patterns (not how to actually be fluent in the language, oh no. That's 3hard5me). Since I was about 11, I started coming up with my own languages that sometimes mimicked real-life languages.

So, to skip the exposition, this is the product of my skills after being enhanced over ~6 years. I don't intend this to be canonical (hell, I don't even know if anyone else will use this), but I feel it would be appropriate to slap it here and show the rest of you. It is far from finished, and some feedback on my horrid writing would be helpful (well, I might be exaggerating, but most of this was written really late at night. So you might see a few... interesting mistakes...)

Here it is. Let me know what you think of it (trust me, there is a lot of information and a lot of headcanon)

If this is well-received (and if I can finish that dictionary...), I might try translating some things, like Shakespeare's works or maybe even a song or something like that. Whatever it may be, this is really just the start of something I hope to finish by this year.

Cheers (or, as the Icathians probably say, Ode, Nur'Min :D )
Edited by BetaDude40, Mar 14 2016, 09:06 PM.
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XalkXolc
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\o/
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Astrid
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The dictionary is also W.I.P, and I've only gone through the champion names (~70%?) that are shown on there as of right now. There is easter egg upon easter egg in there, some intentional, some entirely coincidental but embraced, including a particularly pointed one that we spent an entire hour discussing a headcanon for. I will finish the champion dictionary soon when I find the time, so fear not, you will have more shit like Kin'Kou holy fucking shit we didn't even mean to do that one you guys we already had the syllables and then it just happened
Edited by Astrid, Mar 14 2016, 09:12 PM.
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BetaDude40
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How to make Theoretica instantly laugh:

1. Say "Ren'Zix"
2. ???
3. Compound Interest
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TheMushroomWizar
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"May I borrow your book , Beta?" Inquired the redheaded, intrigued Piltovian, his hextech eye dilating as if to examine every detail of the writing

"Y'now, for research purposes?" He darts his eyes from left to right in a very suspicious way as he says this.

(Really damn impressive work, really like how it stays in-universe)


Edited by TheMushroomWizar, Mar 14 2016, 09:26 PM.
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Pinky Lotus
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Well...I guess this shows why I could never be an archaeologist. Very well done XD Honestly would find it interesting to see the Messenger referring to other characters by their 'Icathian' name.
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Cool~
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BetaDude40
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TheMushroomWizar
 
"May I borrow your book , Beta?" Inquired the redheaded, intrigued Piltovian, his hextech eye dilating as if to examine every detail of the writing

"Y'now, for research purposes?" He darts his eyes from left to right in a very suspicious way as he says this.

(Really damn impressive work, really like how it stays in-universe)


Beta eyed the Piltovian up and down, noting his suspicion.

"IF IT'S ANY MAN I TRUST," said Messenger, who was sitting next to Beta and wearing a shirt that read "Sexiest Voidling Alive", a pair of 3-eyed sunglasses, and a hat which read "Zero Fucks Given" ((#noregrets)), "IT'S A MAN WITH THE 'SHIFTY EYES' SYNDROME. HERE YOU GO SIR, HAVE A NICE DAY."

((And yes, I tried as hard as I could to keep it as in-canon as possible. This proved challenging with Zz in Zz'Rot Portal, since it didn't follow the consonant-vowel-consonant pattern. I ended up having to make it a number and inventing the radical system to accommodate it. Seriously, the existence of Zz'Rot Portal changed like half of the language. That's why Ug'Ken is there; it's basically codeword for "This is where Riot's shitty ideas go and are never mentioned ever again" should Rito ever make an official language.))
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Well...I guess this shows why I could never be an archaeologist. Very well done XD Honestly would find it interesting to see the Messenger referring to other characters by their 'Icathian' name.


Messenger should be doing that whenever I can get the dictionary to a more qualified state.

Speaking of which, if you have a word you want to add; there's around 7630 possible monosyllabic characters, and Theo and I have only completed about 100 of them. Anything, so long as it isn't stupid, will probably be added. You can either PM them to me or mention them in this thread, doesn't matter. Don't be shy, I want to get this done by 2020, at the latest :/
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I may have to do this with Synar's Glyphics used for Casting
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Hey. Hey Riot. If you need someone to actually make Icathian a language...

Well, Beta takes checks. Big ones.
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TheMushroomWizar
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Rito's "Foundations" team is way too busy making their setting as incoherent and mysigonistic as possible to actually craft a fictional language that would add depth and flavour to any world-building project.
Edited by TheMushroomWizar, Mar 14 2016, 10:36 PM.
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Pinky Lotus
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2020...is that a Vel'koz joke?
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Mar 14 2016, 10:35 PM
Rito's "Foundations" team is way too busy making their setting as incoherent and mysigonistic as possible to actually craft a fictional language that would add depth and flavour to any world-building project.
Aw c'mon, Mush, that's being unreasonable. No writer would purposely sabotage their work like that, for one thing, at least if they wanted to eat. Plus, we don't have anything close to the whole picture yet.
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Pinky Lotus
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IDK Xalk...Maybe Riot just decided to move its nonsensical ideas from their old lore and instead put them into the their company management. It's not like they are exactly hurting for cash
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it looks good from my quick glance over it, ill probably more thoroughly read it over the weekend.
sidenote i did think the symbol that said "hek" next to it looked strangely like a shotgun, maybe im overthinking this idk.....
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So far, appreciating the feedback and stuff (makes me all fuzzy inside. And outside too, since I'm a yordle and what-not...)

I'm not making any promises, but I will try to translate something like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (not the whole thing, just like an act, maybe two) because it's my favorite Shakespearean work (it has stabbing, Romans, AND battles!). The good thing about trying to translate literature is that it forces me to create any words that I need for the future, given our abundance of places to slap those words in.

I'll be able to write it in Dar'Yak spelling (like "Dăr'Yăk) and Anglicized Dar'Yak (Dar'Yak, basically). No point in doing it in Dar'Nev, though there will be some of that in there for the character names. And if I had time, I'd try to draw out the pictures of the characters, but I'm not making any promises there since that is so difficult right now.

And Bacca, I named the character after the shotgun in Warframe, but I hadn't intended for the appearance to be similar... Weird...
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Mar 15 2016, 06:03 AM
I will try to translate something like Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
He says, on March 15th...

Beware the Ides of March indeed.
Edited by XalkXolc, Mar 15 2016, 06:45 AM.
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SOMEONE CAUGHT THAT HOLY SHIT!!!

Xalk, your respect has been incrased by 1.
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As a side note, I've sort of created certain "rules" for the dictionary words, and by that I mean patterns that the language usually follows. If you put out your suggestions for words don't be surprised if I change them slightly. It's not you, it's that I want to keep the patterns consistent. Think of it like when characters in shows seem to act OOC because they're written by a different writer in different episodes. I'm not going to change the essence of a word if I edit it, I'm just going to maybe change a vowel or a sound so that Icathian writing can flow consistently.
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I know I said I was doing Shakespeare, but that honestly proved to be way more work translating than I was expecting. It'll take longer than I thought it would.

So, to sate your hunger and make you twist your tongue into knots, I present to you:

Icathian Rhapsody
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Just... beautiful ;_;

(I will buy you a skin if you record yourself singing the entire song and post it here. It's especially difficult when the translation causes the addition or loss of syllables compared to the original. Oh, and just a side note, the [DN:____] parts are supposed to be Dar'Nev.)

So, yeah. If anyone wishes to use this language for pretty much anything, then that's fine by me. I will allow this to be used in any arcs as well (not saying that you should, just saying you can, CCT. #wishfulthinking) and for any characters that want to use it.

EDIT: I just realized that it didn't copy the "A Circumflex" into here (for some reason they are replaced by spaces). If you see an A without an accent mark, then that is supposed to be the A with the circumflex (pronounced like the A in "Father"). Also the places with the "X2" is like that hard "H" at the beginning of ideograms that begin with X.
Edited by BetaDude40, Mar 18 2016, 10:27 PM.
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