Mr Jordan, I was wondering where you came up with the “old language” and the Aiel language? Are there preset rules to them and it is a functioning language? Or do you just have a set of words that you devised and insert when needed?
It’s a functioning language in that I have developed a basic grammar and syntax, and have a vocabulary list which I have devised, some from Gaelic of course, but from languages less often used…Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese. I try to follow these rules that I’ve set up, but occasionally I realize I have to invent a new rule because I’m doing something I’ve never done before. But it all follows the grammar I’ve devised. As far as the Aiel that I’ve devised as a culture, they have bits of Apache, bits of Bedouin, bits that are simply mine.
The Aiel do not have their own language, but they do use some Old Tongue words that have fallen out of use on the other side of the Dragonwall.
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