Language help

[brainofck]

I need some help with foreign language dialog for Skeletal Remains.



I want their baby to be speaking baby talk in many languages. Like how in English babies say "ba" when they mean ball, or bottle, or bye, depending on the baby. That kind of thing.

I'm thinking Daniel would enjoy playing around with languages at least two of the adults spoke, so that would be Ancient, Spanish, English (obviously), Arabic, possibly French, possibly Abydonian/Egyptian/goa'uld. And Chinese, since that is the language source for the local language Daniel is studying.

Anybody know Latin well enough to suggest something in "Ancient?" Or Spanish? Or Chinese? Any suggestions welcomed. I already have a wonderful person who has volunteered to research some Arabic ideas for me.

And if you have your own ideas about other languages I haven't mentioned, toss 'em out. Maybe I'll go that route after all, if I get something good.



Oi. Doing research for porn.

Comments

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Spanish (and Latin) would also use mami and papi for mama and papa -- I believe most languages do that, as ma, pa and da are some of the earliest sounds babies make. Asking for water would be agua, almost the same as wawa. If both the guys are papi, there's no difference. But if one of them decides to be Uncle, then the baby would call him Tio, or Tee in baby talk. Juice is jugo (hoo-go). Ball is pelota.

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Cool. I can see the raging debate now - When the baby says "Pe!!" is he speaking Spanish or Ancient? :D

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha! And will Sam feel left out, if they're teaching the baby languages she doesn't know?

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Sam could insist that he just has a pee pee diaper. *snickers* Maybe I'll even let her be right. :)

I'm probably going to randomly assign Sam a language like Spanish or possibly French. Otherwise, I'm just going to have her be tolerantly amused by it all, and possibly keeping her ears open to learn along with the baby.

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

The Latin is "mater" and "pater," though, so I'd think it'd be "mati" and "pati" if you're going to go that direction. [ponder] Although if you shorten it even more it's still "ma" and "pa" so that works. [nod]

Angie