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Any Vilani dictionaries?

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Maladominus

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Hi all

I was wondering if there is any free online source of Vilani words.

I bet the only "official" source of Vilani vocabulary would be the now out-of-print Vilani and Vargr (from MegaTraveller), which is probably impossible for me to obtain any more.

Barring that.... please point me to any known website that spells out some common Vilani words. My players are 100% into roleplaying and immersion, and in order for them one of them to roleplay a Vilani noble properly.... well, it helps to know some Vilani words, eh?

thanks in advance

P.S. --- I'm aware of a website that randomly creates Vilani words and names. Umm, thats a word randomizer. What I'm looking for is a more canonical dictionary of words.
 
Maraanash,

Oh, someone's looking for information on the Vilani language? A lexicon?

Yes, I can help.

Here's the link to the grammar devised (mostly) by the Traveller Language Development List in 1998.

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/lang/vilani/Vilani_Grammar.html

The page also has links to the expanded lexicon (close to 6000 words), various scripts, a short primer, and a first grade reader (featuring Ditzie).

A year ago I was resonably familiar with the language. So if anyone in your team has grammar or lexicon questions -- or suggestions -- feel free to ask here.

I'd also love to know how they react to the material, and how they use it.


Shalena in bagaan,

Robert
 
robject said:
Maraanash,

Oh, someone's looking for information on the Vilani language? A lexicon?

Yes, I can help.

Here's the link to the grammar devised (mostly) by the Traveller Language Development List in 1998.

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/lang/vilani/Vilani_Grammar.html

The page also has links to the expanded lexicon (close to 6000 words), various scripts, a short primer, and a first grade reader (featuring Ditzie).

A year ago I was resonably familiar with the language. So if anyone in your team has grammar or lexicon questions -- or suggestions -- feel free to ask here.

I'd also love to know how they react to the material, and how they use it.


Shalena in bagaan,

Robert
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Robject, any updates to the Vilani lexicon URL? Your old blog address is now out of date. Very interested in more Vilani! Thanks!
 
timerover51 said:
Not having any knowledge of Vilani, exactly what does this mean?
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based on context I would have thought you are welcome, but following the link and using the dictionary it means okay, right, basically an affirmation depending on how it is used. So the contextual guess was close but incorrect.

and now to use that dictionary on my character cards I think - I was just using English in a Bilidani font, but this ups the level (too bad I'll be the only one who really cares but hey, these are the things that I enjoy doing!)
 
Sorry to necro this but what happened to the lexicon information, no link or directory attempt goes anywhere other than 404 errors any longer (except the random generator). No-one else worked or hosted this information?
 
Relevant to this, have the extant Vilani fonts and letterforms actually been canonized? My conlanging sensibilities are slightly offended by them, as they seem to be a one-for-one mapping to the Latin alphabet, rather than a mapping of glyphs to Vilani phonemes, and I'd seriously like to see it reworked. I have no objection to the letterforms themselves, only the mapping.
 
coliver988 said:
based on context I would have thought you are welcome, but following the link and using the dictionary it means okay, right, basically an affirmation depending on how it is used. So the contextual guess was close but incorrect.

and now to use that dictionary on my character cards I think - I was just using English in a Bilidani font, but this ups the level (too bad I'll be the only one who really cares but hey, these are the things that I enjoy doing!)
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Do keep in mind that positive assertions of accuracy are common polite form acknowledgements. Often to the level of colloquialisms

The following example is, technically, grounded in jargon, but it's jargon that's documented back to before the US...
Such as the USN/USMC/USCG use of "Very Good, Sir." it's nothing at all about the quality of the plan or information, merely that the plan/explanations/information was received. If one needs to indicate compliance, "Aye, Aye, Sir" is specified. Or even reduced to a mere "aye, sir"/"Aye, Sergent" (etc)... which is contracted from "I understand and I will obey," according to the NS1 Textbook 1979 edition from USNA Press. And the BJM as well.

It can be argued that USN/USCG jargon has hit the point of becoming a dialect.
 
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