NationStates Jolt Archive

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That's our way of saying, "Hello!"

Saluton!
Yarrajja!

Jolly good. Uh ... it's nice to chat to you, but the Gameplay forum is for actually talking about gameplay stuff. So maybe you'd like to tell us why/how come you say "Eaux Nguyen" or "Yarrajja"?

And then maybe the group of posters who are making/have made artificial languages could post a link to their discussion forums, if any?

Or, like, what languages does your NS nation speak, and why? It's an oldie but a goodie.

Jolly good. Uh ... it's nice to chat to you, but the Gameplay forum is for actually talking about gameplay stuff. So maybe you'd like to tell us why/how come you say "Eaux Nguyen" or "Yarrajja"?

And then maybe the group of posters who are making/have made artificial languages could post a link to their discussion forums, if any?

Or, like, what languages does your NS nation speak, and why? It's an oldie but a goodie.
Ardchoille, "Yarrajja" is "hello" in the Pastafarian language. This language is spoken by 4% of the Esperantujo 2 population. Unlike the majority of Esperantujo 2 citizens, who speak (RL) Esperanto, and are descended from refugees from Esperantujo 1, Pastafarians are indigenous, and they worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The third ethnic group is the mysterious Charmuloj. They number about thirty thousand and are believed to be of Neanderthal origin. No outsiders speak their language. Some children claim that the friendly monkeys of the Jungle Adventure Playground jibber in a real language, and that they can hold conversations with them, but this is very controversial.
I hope all this, and other curious facts about Esperantujo 2, will be revealed in a forthcoming Factbook and Tourist Guide.

Korintari people speak Alantolig, a modernized form of the mythological Atlantean language, NE dialect, for they are the descendents of that ancient civilization. They also speak Korindo, an offshoot of a Doric/Ionian/Late Minoan creole of Greek. Third there is Korintari standard, the language of elite military forces and the official language of the nation. Besides these three, very similar languages most students study two of the following:
English
Chinese
French
Arabic
Hebrew
Spanish
NB factbook coming soon!

Ardchoilleans, being pretty boring, speak English with odd borrowings from Gaelic, Cockney and Australian slang.

The witchy ones also speak a dead language, often Latin or Greek, for spellwork because it helps centre the will on the purpose. The idea is that in your mother tongue, each word is coloured by unconscious overlays of emotion and experience, but in a tongue used only for magic the mind concentrates on the magical process.