or partial language ?
Maybe when you were a child, or maybe for a scifi/fantasy story you were/are writing.
I am currently reading "In the Land of Invented Languages" written by Arika Okrent who has a Ph. D in Linguistics and who has also managed to earn her first-level certificate in Klingon.
The first sentences of the book are
I think that those 900 languages are only the tip of the iceberg and that there are 1000s of such languages that have been lost and are languishing unseen.
Between the ages of about 10-14 years I started to create a language. I filled about 4 exercise books up with made up words. If I remember correctly I only used about 15 or 16 letters of the English alphabet and I never really got around to grammar. Nothing exists today of my efforts. My exercise books were thrown out decades ago.
If you have had a go at such an endeavor tell us about it, please?
Maybe when you were a child, or maybe for a scifi/fantasy story you were/are writing.
I am currently reading "In the Land of Invented Languages" written by Arika Okrent who has a Ph. D in Linguistics and who has also managed to earn her first-level certificate in Klingon.
The first sentences of the book are
The author states that she has discovered over 900 languages that people have invented. The earlier one that she has founded documentation of is the Lingua Ignota of Hildegarde von Bingen, a 12th century German nun.Klingon speakers, those who have devoted themselves to the study of a language invented for the Star Trek franchise, inhabit the lowest possible rung on the geek ladder, Dungeons & Dragons players, ham radio operators, robot engineers, computer programmers, comic book collectors -they all look down on Klingon speakers. Even the most ardent Star Trek fanatics, the Trekkies, who dress up on costume every day, who can recite scripts of entire episodes, who collect paraphernalia with mad devotion, consider Klingon speakers beneath them.
I think that those 900 languages are only the tip of the iceberg and that there are 1000s of such languages that have been lost and are languishing unseen.
Between the ages of about 10-14 years I started to create a language. I filled about 4 exercise books up with made up words. If I remember correctly I only used about 15 or 16 letters of the English alphabet and I never really got around to grammar. Nothing exists today of my efforts. My exercise books were thrown out decades ago.
If you have had a go at such an endeavor tell us about it, please?