Post 1: http://www.lynthornealder.com/2017/12/25/lexember/
Post 2: http://www.lynthornealder.com/2018/01/05/conlang-extra-lexember-syllabary/
Post 3: http://www.lynthornealder.com/2018/01/08/conlang3/
Today’s topic is… Society
Right now, I’m building vocabulary based on a very pre-industrial society. It’s sort of an experiment (which might end up being an in-world experiment, too; I have Ideas); I’m picturing them at a beginning-to-farm level as well as having pictured them at a hunter-gatherer level and going outwards from that.
So what we have are people living mostly in tiltek, sturdy rock homes built on high outcroppings, generally up against each other and in horseshoe shapes to stand against the cold winds that come in from the coast.
They farm
Oats – rin
Wheat – win
Corn – zin
depending on where exactly their little settlement is – and they are currently gathered in groups of about fifty, as well as jenvin, a squash-like plant, and venvin, beans.
This set up is called a rertivel, a house-like, cozy, bowl-like thing.
Next: the village