Conlanguages
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peteryoungI've had an interest in constructed languages for some time. I'm not talking E-Prime or Newspeak or Nadsat or regional dialects, I'm referring to fully explored and constructed creations. Some examples (occasionally updated in this post):
a priori
Aurebesh | The Divine Language | Klingon | Kot | Láadan | Lincos | Mando’a | Mirad | Na'vi | Quenya & Sindarin | Ro | Solresol | Toki Pona | Tsolyáni | Vampirese | Wardwesân
a posteriori
Amellaibian | Belter | Dothraki & Valyrian | Enochian | Esperanto | Hawaiian Pidgin | Ido | Interlingua | Latino sin Flexione | Lingua Ignota | Loglan | Rocaterranian | Sudric
see also
Codex Seraphinianus | The Voynich Manuscript |
A priori languages are invented from scratch, a posteriori languages are those built on an existing language or combination of languages. Of all the above Toki Pona is one of the most recent, invented by Sonja Elen Kisa, a 28 year-old Toronto translator, to help herself out of depression; also Wardwesân, a massive conlanguage project created by a pseudonymous French author.
It's notable that five of the above a priori languages come from science fiction and fantasy. I've already read Suzette Haden Elgin's radically feminist Native Tongue which first introduced Láadan, and I have somewhere M.A.R. Barker's Man of Gold, set in his world of Tekumel and which features the language Tsolyáni, and is by all accounts a very detailed piece of worldbuilding.
The wiki-site Langmaker, which I only looked at a few times before it disappeared in January 2008, claimed there are 1,902 artificial languages in the world, and I'm sure there are quite a few in online gaming.
Videos:
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na-Vi real languages?
Top 10 Invented Languages
a priori
Aurebesh | The Divine Language | Klingon | Kot | Láadan | Lincos | Mando’a | Mirad | Na'vi | Quenya & Sindarin | Ro | Solresol | Toki Pona | Tsolyáni | Vampirese | Wardwesân
a posteriori
Amellaibian | Belter | Dothraki & Valyrian | Enochian | Esperanto | Hawaiian Pidgin | Ido | Interlingua | Latino sin Flexione | Lingua Ignota | Loglan | Rocaterranian | Sudric
see also
Codex Seraphinianus | The Voynich Manuscript |
A priori languages are invented from scratch, a posteriori languages are those built on an existing language or combination of languages. Of all the above Toki Pona is one of the most recent, invented by Sonja Elen Kisa, a 28 year-old Toronto translator, to help herself out of depression; also Wardwesân, a massive conlanguage project created by a pseudonymous French author.
It's notable that five of the above a priori languages come from science fiction and fantasy. I've already read Suzette Haden Elgin's radically feminist Native Tongue which first introduced Láadan, and I have somewhere M.A.R. Barker's Man of Gold, set in his world of Tekumel and which features the language Tsolyáni, and is by all accounts a very detailed piece of worldbuilding.
The wiki-site Langmaker, which I only looked at a few times before it disappeared in January 2008, claimed there are 1,902 artificial languages in the world, and I'm sure there are quite a few in online gaming.
Videos:
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na-Vi real languages?
Top 10 Invented Languages
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