@ Riot: Pronunciation Rules & Translations
Okay. Something I noticed in Rek'Sai's lore/story........... Now at FIRST we were all used the following:
- Cho'gath
- Kha'zix
- Kog'maw
- Vel'koz
And you know Rek'sai was nothing unusual to add to that list...until I read Rek'sai's lore. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/creative-spotlight/reksai-scourge-desert
Here's the problem I have -this trope. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunctuationShaker
Now *Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn * and
#THAT is ok.
It's special. It's an alien tongue, and very Lovecraftian. Buuut....how many NEW words do we introduce that are mundane things for Runeterrans?
- Bel’zhun
- Elujrav’i’
- Saih’kharash’i
- Eka’Sul
Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay- this would now seemingly infringe on the Lovecraftian styled names for void creatures and seem to imply...that all of them at some point or another passed into Runeterra from the same place (probably Icanthia) and that their unusual names are all actually
#NORMAL.
They even translate part of the name "Xer'sai" and explain that "Sai"
We have entered the “sai,” the rolling plains of sand and sharp stones that define the harsh, southern desert
What I am wondering is
- What ARE these apostrophe's for? Do they represent foreign punctuation or are they actual sounds and if so WHAT? As the wiki notes
Arabic has 2 t's, along with 2 s's, 2 d's, and 3 th's. The t pronounced with the tongue behind the alveolar ridge, is usually transliterated with a dot under the t. Since most keyboards can't easily form that, people tend to replace the dot with a preceding apostrophe.
- What do the names of the other void champions mean, are they ALL translatable? And if this means their names were GIVEN to them by humans...what is a REAL void language like?
