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Let's Make a Language: Day 16, Naming Places

Now that we have a good basis for the language, this is usually where I'd start worldbuilding more to create more vocabulary and flesh out the language. So today, let's name some places.

Here's a slice of the world, Nome as Munya speakers would call it, with all of my previous worldbuilding factions and peoples put onto the map for reference. Serazara, the place with the Giants, Nimmen, Dragons, and Sioghaxx happens to be the most crowded at this time.

The group of people who speak Munya need a name, so lets name them first. This language likes to use descriptive phrases, so I've decided on calling them the Kautsabuleno [kau.t͡sa1.pʰu.lə.no1] or the "they live on the steppes" or the Kautsa for short.

The area where the Kautsa live is a mostly hilly terrain, wet, and cold with little tree covering. We have two words already [to5] and [fo] which are used to make place names, the former being used for mounds or hills and the second being a generic area term.

So a place named Fo Tyi Dyis Lau So [fo tʲi5 tʲʰis1 lau5 so], "place by the ocean" or To Dyis Dalofo [to5 tʲʰis1 tʰa.lo1.fo], "hill by meadow" could be valid names in Munya.

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