hey, I'm using your lasan conlang for a fic I'm writing and I was wondering if there were any pre-exsisting languages you use as an inspiration or where you get your ideas from
Hello, hello! Always exciting to hear.
Well, there's no one specific thing I draw from for Lasana. I suppose you could say it's just the reflection of me as a language geek. I've been a Tolkien nut since I was a kid, so it was probably inevitable I would one day try to con a lang of my own. So the Middle Earth languages are the first part of the mix.
The only languages I've formally studied are Spanish, French, and Latin (plus a smattering of practical Greek from my wife's family), so a lot of my understanding of structure is rooted in the Romance family.
As for what I geek out about and just really love hearing/looking at in a language, it's gotta be things like Japanese and Hawai'ian. I love the almost flowing motion of the vowels and the, shall we say, undeceptive nature of the spelling. I would have to say a bit of that has worked its way into Lasana.
I didn't really set out to create a language. I sort of just started cobbling things together as I had need of them. And now, here we are some 6 years later. Hwow. I don't have as much time as I used to to work on things (currently mothering twins), but I have been working on another Lasana project on and off since they were born. I've been gradually working on translating the script of A New Hope into Lasana. I feel like once we hit that point, we can safely say that Lasana is a properly functioning language.
Also, if you ever find you have need of something that doesn't yet appear in the lexicon, let me know. I'll see if I can find it for you in my labyrinth of notes.
