Zhodani tongue

[MUELLERBADENER]

I am having a brain fart and cannot think of the name of the Zhodani language at this moment, and need it. HELP!

 

[Vargas]

According to Mongoose Traveller, it is Zdetl.

 

[Highorbit_drifter]

I know Vilani has been worked on as a conglang, but has anyone tried doing that with "zdetl"? Or at least gathered some of the words defined in canon?

 

[G. Kashkanun Anderson]

GypsyComet did a lexicon, though it doesn't seem to exist in non-archived form. Here's a link to that Wayback site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050117032508/members.aol.com/gypsycomet/zhodict.html

And here's the link to the old COTI discussion where I found it:

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=23323

 

[robject]

I've worked on a Zdetl conlang a bit, based on Jim's word list. I have both at the link below. 762 entries in the lexicon, about half of which are defined. The grammatical sketch takes up a paltry 3 pages of the 9 page "grammar" document.

As with all conlangs I work with, it is completely amateurish. This means it should be reasonably accessible to everyone, but would either amuse or disgust anyone with real skill. (Think about how one might design a solar system generation system who lacks an astrophysics education.)

http://eaglestone.pocketempires.com/lang/zhodani/

 

[MUELLERBADENER]

Thanks guys. Not that my brain isn't still stinking up the room, but that helped.

 

[GypsyComet]

According to Mongoose Traveller, it is Zdetl.

The Zhodani tongue has gone by that name since MT (Referee's Companion, p93). It is an easy reference to miss.

 

[robject]

The Zhodani tongue has gone by that name since MT (Referee's Companion, p93). It is an easy reference to miss.

It's also easy to forget and misspell. My grammatical sketch uses two spellings, one right, one wrong.

 

[Frankymole]

Reflecting perhaps a brainfart of my own... because I'm sure it's somewhere obvious in the material, but is the "Zh" in Zhdant (etc) pronounced like in "Doctor Zhivago"? A sort of Gigi sound.

 

[GypsyComet]

Reflecting perhaps a brainfart of my own... because I'm sure it's somewhere obvious in the material, but is the "Zh" in Zhdant (etc) pronounced like in "Doctor Zhivago"? A sort of Gigi sound.

Unless you speak in one of the more, ah, "precision" British accents, it sounds like the S in "measure".