I have a race in my book that speaks a different language from the others. They don’t meet any other races in the book so how do I show they are not speaking English? My main character isn’t going to say anything like ‘they spoke in an unknown language’ because she knows the language. I’ll obviously be writing the dialogue in English but how do I tell the readers it’s not the language they are speaking? Do I maybe comment on the fact that my MC is learning the Human Language? Or should I create some words for certain things. Like they have something like a Bible that is called the Order. Do I call it The Order or would it be better to use the word I made up which is The Ortar?
Sometimes in the past when I read people adding in the Odd word of a random language it's thrown me a bit and confused me a bit. All the dialogue is in English then there's this random word thrown in there. So I was just wondering what was the best way to go about it, especially for someone who is not a language expert.
Thanks for any help
Sometimes in the past when I read people adding in the Odd word of a random language it's thrown me a bit and confused me a bit. All the dialogue is in English then there's this random word thrown in there. So I was just wondering what was the best way to go about it, especially for someone who is not a language expert.
Thanks for any help