Starshina is a military rank 
It comes from “Starshaya” which means “senior” 
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THANKS!!! 
love the name, it is awesome. MoonWalkerDragon: the sky serpent, has a nice ring to it don’t you think?
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The nicer-sounding term for that is “conlang,” short for “constructed language” 
Hmm, maybe something along these lines. Calling people by title or nickname could work, and a lot of names would need to be variable anyway, having different forms and all… I’ll just see what I can handle coding 
Also if I add options for steppe language names, “Mara” would actually entirely fit the sound system of one of those…
If you want to make it be a canonical KuLaghuna word, you can. “Layi” means “whirlpool,” so it could be related to that, or it could be totally different. 
Bleh, well, maybe sky-light is a military rank too
But sure, take the title Klikayi (War Commander, literally “Arrow-Elder”) instead, and “Sokolov” can be “Sukuli,” though if we’re using a military rank that should probably all be in formal form, so “Klikayata Sukulata.” That better? 
You’re quite welcome 
if you’d like me to reference a sky serpent and some point, this can be arranged probably a constellation and/or spirit/otherworldly entity.
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How you find name like that?I always have problem finding character name:joy:. Anyway thank you for the name 
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I made it I have a major interest in linguistics, so I outlined the sound system for KuLaghuna (and a bunch of other languages too) and also made a small vocabulary list to draw on. Plus rules for compound words. So for making soundalike names, I just altered them to fit the sound system, while for translations I delved into the vocab list. It’s why @moonwalkerdragon ends up Sky-Serpent instead of something more literal; those were the closest words I had on hand. Or since I didn’t have a word for Parrot, Bird-Forest (as in “bird that lives in the forest”) worked for @ParrotWatcher.
I don’t plan to delve into the language in the game other than names and stuff, but I hope the names will help set the atmosphere.
Edit: Is it weird that poison was already on my vocabulary list, so I didn’t have to make up a new word for it like I did for the rest? 
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Poison = Mara you have doubts?if nt she will poison you
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Tell you what, Mara can be the word for poison in one of the neighboring steppe languages. Sadly it cannot fit in KuLaghuna itself, as the language lacks an “r” sound.
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I made up a language once…It was so heavy "K"s and "R"s (rolled when used alone, but mostly used together with other letters like “Tr”, “Gr”, “Kr”) that my tongue hurts just thinking about it…
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Your family thought it was snoring. 
Just saying.
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Okay, I’ve got a new update ready 
You’ll know you have the latest if it starts by asking whether to play the actual thing or test namegen.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get anywhere near as far as I wanted, but maybe it’s just as well. Now that we get to the point that you’re about to sit down and actually talk with the strangers (or be silent, I suppose) this would be a really good time for you to let me know what you’d actually want to say to them or ask them. Or other actions you’d want to do. Bearing in mind that it should be something that’d make sense for a 7-year-old, naturally.
Part of the reason for the delay is that I spent an inordinate amount of time working on code allowing the player to construct a KuLaghuna name bit by bit… or a name in one of the steppe languages. And then I didn’t actually get to the part in the story where you actually say your name. So I added a choice at the very beginning to test name generation. Please let me know how that is if you run through it, it goes to the main story afterwards.
For those of you whose usernames I translated (if only roughly), you get a little text if you choose that name, just saying what it means.
For @poison_mara, you can get Mara by choosing to construct a steppe name, but I also check for it specifically as a write-in 
If any of you want the KuLaghuna name I invented for you to be a preset, that can also be arranged
Elaborate as the naming thing is, I still haven’t coded in KiTimi equivalents yet. Something to look forward to?
Back to the story itself, yeah, you’ll see there’s a couple spots where I haven’t written the branch for a choice yet. I also haven’t messed with stats yet 
at this point I can also imagine “suspicion” and “subtlety/forthrightness” as additional relevant things to track… goodness only knows what I actually want to use…
Going forward I think I’m going to need to do more outlining than I usually do (in linear writing).
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That’s awesome, and both even show up in the namegen 
Too bad I can’t choose both 
What does “Sukuli/Sukulata” means, though? Sokolov is a surname that means “Of [the] Falcon [clan]”
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I like how you handle the description of the strangers and that they seems really desperate. I still hate big sis.
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…and if I call myself Tyinuki, all the cute boys either die or turn out to be straight? 
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I just wanted to mention that tomorrow is my birthday 
my own thread seemed as good a place as any to bring it up 
So, back on topic, are there any burning questions for the strangers or other stuff you want to say? Or shall I just keep plugging away? 
Well, you could just attain the title Klikayata in play. There is going to be a war going on
Though the character would also have a family name. I could make that selectable if that’s something people would want. You’d also have a household name, but that’s just the name of the character’s grandmother.
Oh, that was just me converting “Sokolov” into sounds that the language would have. But let me check my vocabulary list to see if anything fits…
…Well, it’s almost the same as “Sukali,” which would mean “homecoming of fish” 
Okay, let’s see about a word for “falcon” then…
“Nlalu” would mean “sky-predator,” which could then be Nlaluyi/Nlaluyata as a name.
I thought you might
Is this a request? 
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I really like the premise so far. The demo is short, so I can’t comment on much, but I do like the big sister. I also like what you plan to do with it. Overall, I am looking forward to seeing more, nice job. 
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Could I offered the strangers my Sister as a slave? In a childish way or asking them to get rid of them.Imagine it from perspective of a small child in old times in a poor family. They were considered shit some even sold them to military or church. In old spain lesser child or sell as servants or directly give to church and some never left the abbey again. Mara totally want destroy the creature that could destroy all her life ambitions all goes to bigger sister and brothers. So Mara hates ger.
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Happy birthtomorrow!
Well, now I want to be “Homecoming of parrots”… (Sutyinuki?)
Only if you want the same for all characters named “Tonio”.
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asking authors permission to use Nlamizi for a name in book? I am stuck for a sky dragon name and well “sky serpent”…just asking will not use it without permission.
please continue the thread…
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Thanks It’s nice to see that Big Sister has a fan as well as an enemy.
Well, that sort of thing is possible in the setting, but your character wouldn’t have any legal right to do so. (It’d have to go through the matriarch of the family.) Plus the strangers don’t have anything to pay you with. So I could throw in some sort of dialog option if you really want, but it wouldn’t exactly work out
The two main questions I have planned out for the upcoming dialog are “what are those forehead scars?” and “why doesn’t your husband talk?” Both of which Big Sister will ask if the main character doesn’t.
Also introductions.
Thanks
Not quite that… Sukali is Suka (homecoming) + li (fish). Also “tyi” is a form that only appears at the beginning of a word (the only place consonant clusters are allowed). You’d use “ti” inside a word. So it’d come out to Sukatinuki. Alternatively, “homecoming parrot” would be the opposite word order: Tyanukizuka, which would be Tyanukizuki as a name. (Almost everything has a different form depending on where it is in a compound word. Because I like making things difficult for myself, apparently.)
If I were to translate ParrotWatcher in its entirety, we’d get something like Tyanukizuzu (Tyanukizuzi as a name).
Nagemen only allows KuLaghuna names up to three syllables though, because anything longer usually gets abbreviated anyway The most likely abbreviation of Tyanukizuzi, for example, would be Tyanuzi.
As long as you’re not copying my whole language wholesale, I’m happy whatever makes sense for your story is good.
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…Poor modern countries… a good portion of the world doesn’t have Mara’s love so sad… 
Wasn’t working for the church a straight upgrade and military a chance for greatness? And the church mostly took bribes from nobles so they would accept their children. It’d be a blessing to be sold to the church in those times. Though again they usually paid the church. I’d feel happy if I was being sold to them when I was peasant before.
Can we be an incognito king? We have someone else be a figure head with us pulling the pieces? Or maybe something like “first consul”…
Otherwise I’ll have to do it the old fashioned way and show that I should stay in power because I know better than everyone else.
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Can I have a name?
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