Hi everyone,
I'm going to need help from a finnish speaker in an unusual way here
Let me explain...
I'm currently working on the project of a fantasy book (not really fantasy but that's not the point), in which several imaginary nations will be involved. I didn't want the names of characters and places to come out of nowhere or to sound similar regardless of the nation, but I was too lazy to create my own systems of phonotactics & phonemes, so I decided to pick some already existing systems and just build my names from them. One of the systems I picked was the finnish system.
The trouble with my technique is that, since I have only a basic knowledge of the way the language works (I gathered the knowledge from the web for this project), I've probably missed or misunderstood some of the rules that finnish uses to build words... That's why I would really appreciate your help in "checking" the terms I created...
The land is called Harmaa (I meant "land of the Har") and the people Harmaasta (I meant the elative case)
Now, the names (at last
). I included IPA phonetic transcriptions in case my finnish orthography is not that great (which is certainly the case
)
What I basically need to know is :
- Would it be difficult for a finnish speaker to pronounce some of those names, or would they sound foreign ? If so, what should I change ?
- Do some of them actually mean something ? (I wouldn't want to baptize someone "idiot" without meaning to...
)
Ainea - /ɑineʔɑ/
Hynnäp - /hynːæp/
Kjaan - /kjɑːn/
Lengöt - /leŋøt/
Lymeen - /lymeːn/
Moon - /moːn/
Norea - /noreʔɑ/
Seehsar - /seːhsɑr/
Sevirreys - /seʋirːeys/
Suliihkar - /suliːhkɑr/
Tuonahtar - /tuonɑhtɑr/
Tylinnöt - /tylinːøt/
Välköt - /ʋælkøt/
Lyrälle - /lyrælːe/
Seeskaupu - /seːskɑupu/
Here is what I came up with for now... Thanks for your help and for having taken the time to read me
