Ethnographic Records

Bocafalante

The Goblin conlang — Hungarian-structured, Portuguese-vocabulary. Goblins who speak it call themselves Gobifalantes.

Lat. IIILong. IX

Overview

The Goblin conlang — Hungarian-structured, Portuguese-vocabulary. Goblins who speak it call themselves Gobifalantes.

Culture

The Gobifalantes are depicted as an East India Company-style seafaring trade culture, with their own trading company (a "Companhia Marítima Gobifalante") — likely the direct ancestor of the "Goblin Exploration Guild" referenced elsewhere in the setting (see Paktonyelv).

  • Kovács — the Hobgoblin equivalent, same Hungarian structural base, Russian vocabulary instead of Portuguese, coined the same day.
  • Paktonyelv — the shared trade language uniting Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Orcs, and Goblins, derived separately from Hungarian-filtered Spanish.

Source provenance

Source: Bocafalante Language Development - 2023-04-09.md · 2023-Q2