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[fishboyliam]

So I'm working on a civ, and I want to give it its own language. Is there an easier way than just manually replacing every word in one of the existing files with one I make up?

[Tubercular Ox]

You might be able to flag your civ as using [TRANSLATION:GEN_DIVINE] language.  The game will make up a new one with every world, but it won't be any of the existing ones.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Entity_token#TRANSLATION

[Shonai_Dweller]

I always use Dflang to generate a new language. Very quick, very useful.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47332.0

[fishboyliam]

I always use Dflang to generate a new language. Very quick, very useful.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47332.0

That's exactly what I was hoping for, thanks!

[delphonso]

I use DFLang and then see how it looks in game. Some have been satisfactory others have been excessively long or very repetitive.

Now I gen one and then read through it and replace very long or repetitive words - much less work and has an excellent end product.

[Fatace]

I always use Dflang to generate a new language. Very quick, very useful.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=47332.0

Im going to cry ;-;...  I wish I knew this exsisted! I spent like a total of 8 hours on 1 Civ, then I said screw it and used Find/Replace and just jumbled up stuff for other civs >.<.

[Klisz]

I use DFLang and then see how it looks in game. Some have been satisfactory others have been excessively long or very repetitive.

Now I gen one and then read through it and replace very long or repetitive words - much less work and has an excellent end product.

When generating, there's an option for minimum and maximum word length.

There's also LangCreate, another tool for the same purpose. Might be worth trying out both and seeing which you prefer.

[delphonso]

When generating, there's an option for minimum and maximum word length.

There's also LangCreate, another tool for the same purpose. Might be worth trying out both and seeing which you prefer.

Ah, yeah - my bad. I use LangCreate instead of DFLang.

[Shonai_Dweller]

When generating, there's an option for minimum and maximum word length.

There's also LangCreate, another tool for the same purpose. Might be worth trying out both and seeing which you prefer.

Ah, yeah - my bad. I use LangCreate instead of DFLang.

Which is better?
I use Dflang which is very good.

[delphonso]

I've now used both, but am no expert.

DFLang comes up with better languages, I think - and the word length is a nice option to have. Personally, I have trouble digging up language examples (mostly because I'm living in China and have a more limited slice of the internet.)

LangCreate is a lot faster, though - as you can just type in 10 words and generate a language from that. From just ten words - you're going to get a lot of repeats, but that's not really a huge deal. Some words end up being quite long depending on what you type in.

In both cases, I still browse through the language document and fix/replace whatever words look wrong.