Wakandan Language

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I know this isn’t the typical stuff for this forum, but I create languages, an as this one is comics-related…..:

https://cbb.aveneca.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7108

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Looks like you’ve put a lot of thought and effort into this, Kalman.  Good luck with it.

No need to qualify your post Kalman, the creative thread covers anything you fancy, most often comics but if you do a bit of pottery or interpretive dance that’s all on topic too.

garjones wrote:

No need to qualify your post Kalman, the creative thread covers anything you fancy, most often comics but if you do a bit of pottery or interpretive dance that’s all on topic too.

I also was qualifying it to say that I normally wouldn’t post my conlangs, as they can be a bit esoteric, but as this is related to comics, I decided to post it.

In the past, Hausa and Zulu have been used in the comics, while Xhosa is used in the movies.

Mind if I post this on the Hudlin Entertainment Forum?

JRCarter wrote:

In the past, Hausa and Zulu have been used in the comics, while Xhosa is used in the movies.

Mind if I post this on the Hudlin Entertainment Forum?

Go ahead!
Zulu’s not spoken near where Wakanda is supposed to be. Hausa’s a stretch, but Wakandan could be a relative. Xhosa was used for the movies as the actor who played Tchaka is a native speaker, though adding a few words from languages of the area would have made sense ( take a word for metal and make it mean Vibranium, for example). Really, the reason for making its own language is because Marvel already got the linguist who created Dothraki to make Dark Elvish in Thor 2.