Dydh da!
It's been years since I've been writting a fantasy story. (not going to write too much about it here. Dragon, magic blablabla)
Problem is that I've been writting this story since little and decided recently to re-start from the beginning, Starting with: Naming convention, and Language of the story.
I did some surface level reseach on Celtic languages (I love Celtics Culture, Mythologie, musics etc... ((it's very shallow, I know, I should do way more resarch, which I want to. But for my story I only want to use the language, as I don't plan to use the story's of Celtic culture at all. It's in a different world, with different culture. No cultural appropriation at all.)) ANYWAY, I want to learn a little bit of the Cornish language to "make up" names.
I don't want to use real worlds names as it's a story without humanoids, and I want to use hhuuu.. Words? For the names? I'm explaining myself very badly i'm sorry.
For exemple (using english) i want characters names to be "Secret-Breeze" "Dark-Dusk" or simple words like "Mountain" "Lake" "Secret" (im using very bad example) but translated in Cornish. Probem is, for exemple, I don't fcking know if I should write "Tewal-Bora" or "Bora-Tewal". Or, I want to name of them "Word of the word". What's the equivalent of "of" in Cornish, and how do I use it!? Can I mash up the two words, if there's something in between!? Can I just create a name by just mashing words without caring about anything?! Did I fcked up? Am I going to be burned by some people because I've written absoliute shit?!
I guess my question is, Do you guy's have some good book I could get to have a basic understanding on how grammar work in the Cornish language? Or even if some, more experienced, people would like to help me with my mess?
To be clear, it won't bee only surname for characters, but also locations, maybe some very rare dialect, like expressions, etc ect...
I'am deadly scare of translating something wrong and getting blasted (i'am very stressed, as you can see)
I'm not putting immediately which names I need help with because: 1 I don' have all of them Right now and 2: I'm scare to break a rule? I've read the rules of the sub reddits and don't see anything against this, but I just want to be sure...
Anyway, thanks for any answers or even attention on the post! oe I can get any kind of help
