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Resources Used to Make Cepperjoleddicg
First and foremost I must thank my fellow-linguists
at the Yahoo! Group
Artificial Languages for
all the help they've given me over the years. I've been a member of this group
for over four years now, I was the second member, and I joined three days after
it was founded. I really wouldn't have been able to create the language without
the help these people have given me.
Now, without further ado, the Cepperjoleddicg
resource page:
Adelic What can I say? I love this language.
It's one of the first I ever came across.
An
Introduction to Old Norse This
I've used to get a sense of Skaldic meter and verse for the
my Cepperjoleddicg poetry and for its helpful glossary in the back. Of
course, the primary focus of the book is the sagas, which I've taken great
pleasure in reading. There is also an excellent introduction which explains the
origins and interactions of the different Germanic peoples.
Beowulf: A New
Verse Translation (Seamus Heaney's translation) This
gave me a good sense of how the ancient Germanic people wrote poetically.
Brendan's
Language Page This is
a phonetic guide to some fifty-odd languages. I used it to decide how to fill
out Cepperjoleddicg's phonetic inventory.
Chamber's
Etymological English Dictionary Where would Cepperjoleddicg be
without Chamber's? Nowhere close to where it is today, that's for sure. Now, I have
come across etymological dictionaries that are more complete, but I keep on
using Chamber's because it's so usable. Very
user-friendly. And plus, at this point, it's like an old friend. The
spine's broken, the pages are worn and covered with my fingerprints, and the
inside cover bears grass stains from the time I let Eric borrow it and he
dropped off the Carter's back porch.
Essentials of Early English Incredibly helpful. This book
contains three grammars: one of Old English, one of Middle English, and one of
Modern English; selected Old English texts; and an Old English glossary.
MacBain's
Etymological Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic I bought this in hardcopy about a year ago only to discover that night that there was a
hypertext version available.
Modern English to Old English Vocabulary This was my first
Cepperjoleddicg-specific resource. I was lucky to find something so complete so
early on.
Obsidian's
Lair You find help in
interesting places, sometimes. A guide to different peoples'
pantheons. I used the Germanic one to form some words and to name the
months and the days of the week.
Scallin and Kakarak Kakarak's not really my thing, but
Scallin reminds me in a lot of ways of Cepperjoleddicg.
Russian (Teach
Yourself Books) A
nifty little book. (I would have ordered it a bit differently, but hey, when I
write my books I can do them however I like, I guess.) Germanic and Slavic
langauges are closely related, and this guide to Russian grammar helped me
decide how to handle some of the finer, more esoteric points in Cepperjoleddicg
(especially Rauþøþlį dialect) style.
Swedish (Teach Yourself) Handy.
The Celtic
Consciousness This
book is mainly about Celtic culture and history, but it has a few chapters on
language that have really helped me to decide how to handle my analytic constructions.
They Have a
Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases This book has helped contribute to
some words that I feel have given the language a very special, Germanic feel.
Verbix.com This is a great online verb
conjugator that's constantly expanding! I used it to decide which verbs would
be strong and which would be weak.
Welsh
Dictionary This page is a fossil but it's the best you can
find. I guarantee it.
yourDictionary.com I've known about this page as long as I've known about the
internet and I've used it for ages. It provides grammars, dictionaries,
thesauri, etymologies, word games, and other language tools in thousands of
languages (including a few in invented languages.)