#durin arknights

[ayavanni]

Arknights 3/2* textposts/memes part 5

[snackbyte]

very SPOOKY rhodes island halloween costumes!!!

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Arknights: Durin Conlang

So... I just learned that Arknights and its world of Terra has its own version of the vertically challenged underground-dwelling comedy relief people. so, like any sane artist I decided that they too will get their own language alongside the other languages I have cooking for the other nations (which I should make a list for, like the Mass Effect one).

in under an hour of brainstorming, I know these things will be featured:

Grammatical features will be governed by affixes that change and or remove the existing phonemes/suprasegmentals of the root word. in other words, changing the stress and/or tone, the place/ manner of articulation of the consonants, and/or the openness, frontness, nasality, length, voicing, etcetera of the vowel will determine things like tense, plurality, person, and other features that I haven't seen in any other natural or constructed language.

Derivational affixes (those that change the definition of the word itself down to whether it's now a noun or a verb) will use the more traditional prefixes, suffixes, circumfixes, and the rare infix. as well as good old compounding.

derivation includes a tool for doing the verb, a person who does the verb, and the person who is the receiver of the verb. e.g. "weapon", "warrior/soldier", and "murder victim" could have the same root.

the two systems above have their own metaphorical terms to describe how they work and are viewed by native speakers. respectively, they are called "Sculpture" and "decoration". with grammar being viewed as -- in this case -- literally changing and refining the shape of the word. while the derivations are viewed as adding little touches to an already finished work.

The phonology of this language will have lots of plosive. perhaps in addition to using most places of articulation, they are more diversified by secondary articulations like aspiration, palatalization, labialization. maybe there are additional phonemes such as affricates, nasal releases, lateral releases, rhotic releases, that will drive up that plosive count.

Syllables might have plosives and/or affricates in the onset and the other consonants like nasals and liquids in the coda. this is based on English onomatopoeia like "bam", "clang", "crash", etcetera. a sort of friendly acknowledgement at the literary roots that the race is no doubt based on.

These are the things that I am most sure to include in the final version of the language. but they are also subject to change. already I am wondering if I should switch the morphological nature of the grammar and derivational morphologies. seeing as derivation is more like changing the shape of a word more deeply while morphology is more like the bits and pieces you would add afterwards. what would you think?

there are also some features I am considering but not yet sure about committing to just yet. some of those features being:

subject and object person being marked by the manner of articulation in the onset and coda.

tense/aspect/mood/other marking via the properties of the vowel in the root's nucleus.

direction words encoding three-dimensional information due to living in an underground maze-like environment.

a metaphor for time going from light to dark.

This is all I got for now, I'll try to keep you updated on any progress. till then, feedback is appreciated. till next time... ;).

[arknights-should-kiss]

Haze and Durin should kiss !!

Inspiration: their chibi sprites are cute together

[redrivertherabbit]

Poze-..pyzom-...uh..Pozy's skin yay :D

[spacecow2455]

As soon as I learned that the Durin underground cities are collectively referred to as "The Country of Durin," that stupid Harvey Birdman joke popped into my head.

Artwork by Zeitzbach on Furaffinity

[c-xx-c-xx]

[kc5rings]

My question is will they have Marcille listed as an elf or not

Even if they don’t I feel like her and Muelsyse would have a hell of a conversation given their similar hangups

[yokohangry]

Plume and Durin.

I too just want to sleep (I was up late playing Dredge.)

[exceptionally-stupid]

For a while I thought that the Durin were supposed to be based off of bugs because for a while the only ones were Durin (who had a very basic design) and Myrtle, who had butterfly motifs, so when Minimalist came out and he didn't have, like, carpenter ant imagery in his E2 art, I was immensely disappointed.

[koshka-sova]

im so pleasantly surprised that rose salt is a pythia. just look at that tail! and the pirate clothes!!!

[ayavanni]

Things to not say to someone who just came out PART 2 (PART ONE IN PROFILE)

[yasssketchdumps]

naptime

[astramore]

Pozyomka

[chiiithesexycrocodile]

another old drawing with the 2* operators (i love em) and my doctor oc or something like that (I'm sorry)

[burstfoot]

if anything chilchuck will be labeled as durin

Durin are definetely more inspired by dwarves than they are hobbits (Half-foot in Dungeon Meshi), given they live underground, so I don't think Chilchuck would be labelled a Durin, though he does look more like a Durin than Senshi does so I think there's definetely going to be some gags about the Durin thinking he's one of them