Did you know that the fandom "had its own language" at one point? Primal is a language created by Trickster with around 3000 worlds and seemed to be popular in the early 2000's among some furries and Therians. This book was printed in 2001 and I have the font for Primal on my laptop still.
It's interesting how this script is constructed. You'd think the language would have more straight edges since claws n talons aren't designed to mark in circular arcs. It implies they learned to write on leaves which leads to curved script as opposed to clay tablets or rocks. This is fan linguistics
Of course but it's fun to think about how an ancient Primal language would develop a written font.
That's a good point
Isn't this where "murr" came from? Outstanding to know its from a conlang. I need this book lmfao.
Do you have any resources to learn this language? It looks really cool
So the website I got this book from was the author's site, and it had resources on there that would help people to learn it. Unfortunately, the site has been down since at least early 2021, but this was the address: trickster.wereanimal.net/Primal/ Not sure if the Wayback Machine grabbed anything
Also found this link on Twitter shortly after the Primal site went offline in 2021. Has links to download the Primal font, and worksheets to practice the characters once the font is installed www.e477.com/Primal/
I looked, sadly "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
I believe myself to be the last surviving resource on this that remains actively communicating with this space
I wish it was archived somewhere
There was a website at one point but it went down sometime in 2021 I think ._. That's where I got the font for it
So I am guessing you don't own the book in the picture? I'd love to see it digitized
I own a copy, bought it not too long before Trickster's website went offline. Would also love to see a digital copy of it somewhere
Do you have a discord or telegram I can reach out at? I’d love to discuss it further
Yee, I can be found on pretty much anything at @TarinCoyote
That’s the problem with a lot of old furry stuff. Publishers go under or are bought. I liked what Jarlidium Press did with YARF by offering compilation volumes. This stuff is going to be lost to time if something is not done…
That is really unfortunate. All this stuff is before my time, but the concept of a language made by furries is real interesting
I'm not the bird they send to negotiate Or the bird they send to make deals But I am the bird people talk to
That's really cool!
@nullwerewolf.bsky.social
If that’s your copy, then having it digitized would be really nice. Hell, I’d take a zip folder of photos taken of each page
Trickster is cool. I haven’t seen her in years.
She was one of my instructors from undergraduate CSE
Its out there! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
I did my final presentation in college for English Linguistics all about ConLangs/Primal, haha. I would love to see it used more again!
Cool did not know about that