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Linguitect


Jul 29, 2018

In this episode, we talk about honorific systems in different languages, and how to work them into your conlang!

 

This episode is just Rowan and Matt, and Matt's introduction is of the multiple honorific systems in Korean.

 

Wikipedia pages on Korean honorifics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_honorifics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_speech_levels

 

Victor Mair's post on royal language in English and Nepali:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=21466