This namebase was created using the Kurdish city names from the region of Kurdistan and Turkish cities/settlements with a prevalent Kurdish population.
This namebase was created using Dutch Low Saxon place names.
This namebase was created using Walloon place names.
This namebase was created using Limburgish place names.
This namebase was created using Zeelandic place names.
This namebase was created using West Flemish place names.
This namebase created using West Frisian place names.
This namebase was created using Dutch place names.
This namebase was created using Assamese place names.
This namebase was created using Odia place names.
This namebase was created using Polish place names.
This namebase created using Māori place names.
This namebase was created using Nepali place names.
Long a county in the Holy Roman Empire, Hainaut is the country of the Haine river, a small river mouthing in the Scheld.
Although the major cities in Hainaut now are Tournai, Mons and Charleroi, two of these cities (Tournai and Charleroi) actually weren’t in the Hainaut at that time (respectively the Païs Tournensis and the county of Namur), while the (arguably) most important city in Hainaut at that time was Hal, now located in the Flemish Brabant province. I chose to include all those cities for they link one way or another to the Hainaut’s culture.
Contrarily to the most part of the French-speaking part of Belgium, a large portion of the Hainaut was influenced by the Picard language rather than by the Walloon one, leading people nowadays referring the the westernmost part of Hainaut “Wallonie Picarde” or Wapi.
In the 17th century, the Hainaut was the theater of Strife between the Kingdom of France and the Spanish Low Countries, later Austrian and then Dutch. This impacted the Hainaut’s lanscape with incredible fortresses being built. The famous King’s Architect Vauban (renowned for his innovations in Fortress building, the Star Fort) dubbed the fortifications of Ath his “best achievement”.
This namebase was created using Bengali place names.
Middle Earth(ish) namebase – Includes 40 individual namebases. Some of the many included are the Quenya, Teleri, Sindarin, Haradric, Easterling and Hobbitish namebases.
First and Surnames namebase – Includes 441 individual namebases like the Yiddish, Ukrainian, British, West Frisian, Romanian and Tagalog ones.
Place Names namebase – Includes 243 individual namebases like the Aboriginal, Altaic, Germanic, Latin, Slavic and Nordic languages.
Inspired by the works of Linguistics Inc, Dardamuth, Croborn, Lunii Maps, FishBugs, AS Mapping, NewMar, Kyo, EP, Wormfodder Dlivery Service, Something, Manji and pretty much every other namebase creator.
Sources & websites used for getting & extracting the names: translate.google.com, www.lexilogos.com, onlinetools.com, eu4.paradoxwikis.com,ck3.paradoxwikis.com, fantasynamegenerators.com, notionclubarchives.fandom.com, lotr.fandom.com, basicroleplaying.net, chat.openai.com, tolkiengateway.net, https://eldamo.org, https://en.wikipedia.org, chat.openai.com, mylanguages.org (expired security certificate, please be careful when visiting it as for now) and en.wiktionary.org
This namebase consists of around 700+ languages, being a blend of ancient, medieval and modern ones. It includes languages from all around the world (Tetun from East Timor, Yoruba from Africa, Tlingit from North America, Maltese from Europe and the list goes on). This namebase works the best for place names, but you can use it however you like, for example as a name generator or word generator.
Some examples of the bases included are:
Sacred (Religious) Languages – Classical Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Pali, Old Church Slavonic, Koine Greek, Vedic Sanskrit
Ancient – Dacian, Phrygian, Thracian, Ancient Greek, Akkadian, Latin, Etruscan, Proto-Norse, Proto-Germanic among many others
Common Languages – French, Polish, Czech, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian Bokmål, English, Irish, Scottish, Manx, Cornish, Scots, Greek, Slovak, Montenegrin, Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Macedonian, Finnish, Estonian etc
Medieval – Middle High German, Middle Low German, Livonian, Anglo-Saxon/Old English, Byzantine Greek, Old Czech, Old Polish, Middle Polish
There’s a total of 630 name bases. The first 200-300 languages are taken from the Europa Universalis 4 and Crusader Kings III cultures, then extracted from Wiktionary’s language lemma lists. After that ChatGPT is asked to put the names in the correct format (horizontal order with words separated by commas) and then copy pasted into Azgaar’s Namebase list. Sometimes the names have to be romanized, if that’s the case I paste them into a romanizer/transliterator like the ones listed in the sources. If that doesn’t work I ask ChatGPT to do it for me.
The namebase will occasionally be updated, I don’t know when.
I would really appreciate it if you give me a suggestion on what I could add to either this namebase or the Middle Earth one.
This namebase is inspired by the works of Linguistics Inc, Dardamuth, Croborn, Lunii Maps, FishBugs, AS Mapping, NewMar, Kyo, EP, Wormfodder Delivery Service, Something, Manji and pretty much every other namebase creator. Although none of their works were used to make this, I still want to thank them for being a great inspiration.
Sources: https://chat.openai.com, mylanguages.org, https://en.wiktionary.org, https://translate.google.se, https://www.lexilogos.com, https://onlinetools.com, https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com, plenty of transliteration/romanization & dictionary/lexicon/glossary sites like PanLex https://vocab.panlex.org/otk-000/ and https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com
This namebase privides names for a Burgundian-like culture in Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator.
This namebase was created using Punjabi place names.
This is a namebase created using place names from the island of Soqotra, part of the Soqotra Archipelago, politically considered to be a part of Yemen. The people there are ethnically distinct, referred to as Soqotri. The Soqotri people speak a Semitic language of the Modern South Arabian branch.