Timeline for Searching for a database of real historical names
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| Oct 6, 2017 at 7:24 | comment | added | Julian Egner | I like this Idea, You want names for a fantasy world? you only need an amount of words in a language (must not be english) and translate this to many languages. But i think of a program to do this instead of excel. You alos can decide that one of your worlds countries has names that are mixed of.. say, babylonian and zulu words and another of ... ancient greek and aztec words. Of course you will have to play with this to get "good" names | |
| Sep 7, 2017 at 12:47 | comment | added | Nate Anderson | @Will, this is a terrific idea. As I'm hoping to populate a huge world, using Markov chains with insufficient inputs will likely make the generated names pretty derivative. Once I exhaust the resources for historical names, or for old languages for which we lack resources, I'll try this approach. | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 8:55 | comment | added | user28434 | @PeterTaylor, also Assyrians still exist with their own language (which can be represented in latin alphabet) and what not. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 23:05 | comment | added | Willk | @Peter Taylor - excellent! I will read up on Maltese! | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 21:57 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Turkey may be geographically close(ish) to Iraq, but that doesn't mean that the Turkish language has much in common with Akkadian. If you're looking for a Semitic language which uses the Latin alphabet, Maltese is the obvious candidate. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 20:08 | comment | added | Willk | You may be right, @HDE 226868. I am willing to risk downvotes for the chance that the OP gives me that green check for the awesomeness of this approach. If the desired end result is "give me something that is close to historical but hopefully with enough flavor to not sound derivative." this method is a good answer. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | HDE 226868♦ | It doesn't seem the like the OP is looking for alternate approaches, so I'm not sure that this answers the question. | |
| Sep 5, 2017 at 19:53 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |