What do you think it sounds like? We all know what Elven, Dwarven, and Orcish sound like, more or less. But, what about Halfling?
In most of my games I just get rid of it and assume all Halflings speak Common. They usually speak with local accents, full of slang. They adopt and invent words, adding them to the "Common" tongue, and in this, have their own version, but it's largely the same.
How about you? How do you run Halflings and their language?
Personally speaking, I do nothing special, aside trying to speak a bit childish ( not in the tone but in expressions - sorry, I don't recall the English term for what I mean at the moment). I would suggest to model Halfling language on the notes of Hobbit language. After all, the halfling are hobbit :)
I'm not familiar with those notes.
There are few of them, you can take some hint from the lotr book, and the section about Hobbits and the languages of middle Earth.
I roleplay my halflings with Mexican accents.
I always get the idea of halfling society from the beginning of the LOTR movies, after the history introduction to The One Ring, when Bilbo is narrating "Concerning Hobbits." A very simple people, based around community and family, content with the simple things in life, unconcerned with the advancements of other peoples. Life on the rolling fields and moors. To me, this conjures ideas of language similar to two options; Traditional Irish, or Pennsylvania Dutch.
I guess gaelic might be a place to start.
I roleplay my halflings with Mexican accents.
That's funny, because I do the same thing with dwarves.
I always think that Halfling would sound pretty much like nigh-unintelligible highly-accented Common. Kind of like how Cockney rhyming slang would sound to a Cajun from a backwoods bayou.
I tend to think of them sounding like they come from one of the farming areas of Britain, such as East Anglia.
Something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVwdv9Pzo8
Obviously, skip past the first minute of the American narrator :)
And yes, it's the same part of the country that I'm from. <gulp>
(and you have to admit the pub visited would fit right in)
Halflinglish?
Id say similar to common but with shorter words ;)
Funny, I never thought of 'em sounding anything like what's been provided here--all these English accents and what not.
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What do you think it sounds like? We all know what Elven, Dwarven, and Orcish sound like, more or less. But, what about Halfling?
In most of my games I just get rid of it and assume all Halflings speak Common. They usually speak with local accents, full of slang. They adopt and invent words, adding them to the "Common" tongue, and in this, have their own version, but it's largely the same.
How about you? How do you run Halflings and their language?
They all sound like the Swedish Chef. Bork, Bork, Bork.
I think it would be a lot of "Vo" and "ile" sounds.
--Like--
Common: Hey; what's up with you?
Halfling: Tavo! Ekal ly rut aen?
There are exactly 847 names for meal, indicating the time, size, and types of food to be served.
I roleplay my halflings with Mexican accents.That's funny, because I do the same thing with dwarves.
Interestingly, my group refers to the halfling language as sounding like a Texan accent.
Elven in my mind just sounds like it does in the LotR movies, Dwarven sounds like Gaelic, but Orc to me varies in between Maori, Hawaiian and Southwest Native American dialects.