Worldbuilding Wednesday – Newfangled Digital Dictionary and Glossary

Last week I revealed a priceless artefact – the Dictionary of Airthai Languages. This week the first part of the dictionary is available by clicking here, as well as by opening the Dictionary and Glossary tab at the top of the blog.

The words and phrases are listed alphabetically, with both English and Afrikaans translations given for the words in the Airthai languages. For instance; the word khalla has both “servant” and “dienaar” listed as meaning, but both “dienaar” and “servant” are also listed separately, with the translation “khalla”.

Although only a rudimentary reference page for now, I hope to build it into a proper dictionary and glossary of Airthai; listing place names, characters, etc. in due time.

Now I must just find those blog elves…

Worldbuilding Wednesday: A Multilingual Dictionary of Nerdy-goodness

What do you get when you leave a worldbuilder alone with a stash of card making and crafting goodies? Or, more precisely, what do you get when said worldbuilder starts putting together a dictionary of languages spoken in a built world and then gets left alone with a stash of card making goodies?

I give you the one of a kind, handwritten and multilingual[1] Airthai dictionary – with a suitably aged look, of course.

The Priceless Artefact

Will this priceless artefact have a digital version available for all to peruse at leisure in the future? Why yes, this newfangled digital edition will be made available – if all goes well – in time for next week’s Worldbuilding Wednesday. I’ll then command the blog elves to update said dictionary when needed, just in case I forget to do it myself!

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[1] Having entries in the various Airthai languages as well as translations into Afrikaans and English. Because I can. :)