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secret friend · 10mo
who’s winning the twerk off jinbe or big mom
secret friend · 12mo
feel absolutely insane in the best way possible reading about your op conlangs I would LOVEEEE a master doc or master thread on them!!! also im so interested in ur take on certain languages ie dorry and broggg/ skypeia speaking a similar lang to their “modern” counterparts (Jaya, elbaf) and whether you think dorry and broggy simply speak a more archaic version of modern elbaf lang bc of the 100 year difference or if you think the shandian language itself changed over time despite independence from skypeian colonists bc of internal changes sorry if this is rambly its v late at night 😭
HIHI!! omfg you're right a master doc would be a good idea huh... i've just been rambling to myself up until this point, i didn't expect the sudden attention haha. YOUR MIND IS HUGE. lemme try to organize my thoughts for once
i like the idea of brogy and dorry speaking a more "archaic" form of elfram! and by "archaic" i mean, like, the way your great(x3)-grandparents spoke or something. since giants live upwards of 300 years, it would make sense if their perception of time and age differed from that of humans. language change is also pretty slow in the grand scheme of things, so one hundred years isn't all that long lol
i think when they lived on the moon in the city of birka, the ancestors of shandians, skypieans, and birkans all spoke the same language. then, after moving seaside, they gradually branched off into their own distinct varieties (internal linguistic change is bound to happen regardless of external conditions as speakers are inherently innovative). so they would share the same proto-language, i suppose. and since it was a MOON LANGUAGE, it probably sounded crazy different from seaside ones. though i imagine contact (however minimal) with other islands in paradise led to some borrowing (and nativization in certain cases). enel destroying birka is insane in this sense actually cuz it's like congratulations idiot your native language is endangered now (not extinct mind you, i doubt every speaker of birkan still lived on the island). skypiean and shandian... hm... there's definitely been skypiean influence on shandian over the centuries; like arabic with spanish and farsi and indonesian, or english with... um, a lot of languages. a large if not key aspect of colonialism is the systematic and social suppression or erasure of indigenous languages (and the imposition of a settler one), so there's obviously gonna be severe linguistic consequences. hm.... you've given me a lot to think about! i might elaborate more on this later. thanks for the ask! i appreciate it.
secret friend · 12mo
i didnt even think about the fact that the different blues would have different languages ! conglang is so cool
YEAH‼️‼️‼️ apparently the world of one piece is almost 3 times the size of earth, and WE have ~7,000+ living languages; imagine how many THEY should have! especially with so many different (oftentimes isolated) islands. there's obviously some cultural exchange, but no fucking WAY people native to the south blue are speaking the EXACT SAME as people native to the north blue (excluding the "universal language" that was artificially constructed by the WG for literacy, trade, business, and military purposes). and while i like to think the four blues share a proto-language, there's still going to be variety; it's not like spanish, french, and italian are identical, right? so automatic mutual intelligibility would be unrealistic. and just imagine the potential! the pidgins and creoles, the BUCKWILD blended accents some people would have... mwah! 🤌 anyways, i'm happy you like the concept ^_^ thanks for the msg!