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[Anzugud]

DFFD Link
GDrive Link

I've started putting together a "language project" which is where I strip language dictionaries, clean the words of any unusual characters and then feed the results through DFLang. I'm also providing the files for each step of that in case you're not happy with the results and want to generate your own (or in case I messed up which symbols file I was using and it has a big fat "WHORE" word in it somewhere).

So far, I've uploaded:

Spoiler: Language List (click to show/hide)

- american_names : generated from the 1000 most popular boy and girl names, it is bizarre
- arabic_quranic : generated from Arabic from the Quran
- bexadecimal: generated from binary and hexadecimal, perfect for robots
- demon_names : generated from Wikipedia's list of theological demons it is sort of Hebrew but with a lot of sounds that Hebrew doesn't really use
- english_modern : generated from the 3000 most commonly used modern English words
- french_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern French words
- german_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern German words
- japanese_edo : generated from family / male names from Japan's Edo period, very traditional and Japanese sounding
- khalani : generated from the Protoss language from the Starcraft universe
- nahuatl : generated from a Nahuatl dictionary, it's a very good Mesoamerican sound
- navi : generated from the Navi dictionary from learnnavi.org
- old_norse : generated from a 4+k Old Norse dictionary, it may have some English words accidentally left in but they just get drowned out in the Norseness
- orcish_tolkien : generated from a Tolkien Orcish dictionary
- pokemon : generated from Pokemon names, not perfect but pretty entertaining
- portuguese_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Portuguese words
- rlyehian : generated from Lovecraft's language of R'lyeh from the Cthulhu mythos
- sindarin : generated from a language dictionary of Tolkien's Sindarin, not accurate to the books but it is pretty elven stuff
- spanish_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Spanish words
- toki_pona : generated from the Hawaiian-esque conlang Toki Pona, which has 120 words
- turkish_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Turkish words

Spoiler: On Roots File Naming (click to show/hide)

One of the things I've tried to do is keep the linguistic feeling of these languages whilst also stripping out anything that would be an impairment for your standard DF player without DFHack / TWBT. This means that any roots file without trailing words is the "standard" which consists of me replacing (preferably with a similar linguistic look / sound) any characters not in the usual alphabet for English.

That said, I've also included the files with non-English characters, and here's a key for all those:
- unusual_characters : non-English characters included
- standard_case : at time of writing, only used on German, preserves German casing on nouns but due to lack of lots of nouns isn't that great
- doubled_case : again only used on German, words are doubled to include upper and lowercase on every word which should mean that there's a roughly even chance of a word getting a upper case letter regardless of position in names

If you've got any requests just ask and I'll see what I can do. If you want to use these languages in your mods, feel free to as long you credit me and DFLang.

[Anzugud]

It turned out I had, in fact, used the word file that was included by default in DFLang which includes a lot of swear words. That's been fixed and the languages have been regenerated.

I've also added american_names which is generated from the current most popular boy and girl names in America. It's a bizarre language.

EDIT: pokemon language added, it's generated from all the pokemon names.

[Shonai_Dweller]

You might want to consider using the official file server.
That way we can all continue to enjoy your efforts 20, 30 years from now (as we approach Dwarf Fortress ver 1.0...maybe).

http://dffd.bay12games.com

[Anzugud]

english added which has been generated from the 3000 most popular English words.

You might want to consider using the official file server.
That way we can all continue to enjoy your efforts 20, 30 years from now (as we approach Dwarf Fortress ver 1.0...maybe).

http://dffd.bay12games.com

That'd probably be a good idea.

[Anzugud]

Added bexadecimal which is a mix of hexadecimal and binary and I've put it onto the DFFD.

EDIT: Added japanese_edo (made from common Japanese edo period family / male names since female names are pretty unknown) to the GDrive link. Will updated the DFFD link every few days.

[Anzugud]

Updated with rlyehian and sindarin, as well as the DFFD file being updated.

[Anzugud]

The DFFD has been updated with v2.0 to include the following languages:

- arabic_quranic : generated from Arabic from the Quran
- french_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern French words
- german_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern German words
- khalani : generated from the Protoss language from the Starcraft universe
- navi : generated from the Navi dictionary from learnnavi.org
- orcish_tolkien : generated from a Tolkien Orcish dictionary
- portuguese_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Portuguese words
- spanish_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Spanish words
- toki_pona : generated from the Hawaiian-esque conlang Toki Pona, which has 120 words
- turkish_modern : generated from the 500 most commonly used modern Turkish words