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| Kakino Newbie Canada Joined 4702 days ago 7 posts - 16 votes Studies: English*, French, Japanese, German | Message 1 of 8 04 June 2012 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I remember in grade 6 when I made a language with a friend...okay. It wasn't actually a complete language
but there were a few words. The most I remember is: Benisa Coosa Cookookaiya. Just because it rhymes. Beni: You Coo: Are Cookoo: Crazy Gosh I have no idea what the "as" and "kaiya" mean. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had ever done such a thing or at least tried or thought of doing so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5729 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 2 of 8 04 June 2012 at 2:28am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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We've had threads about conlanging before. Yes, a few people have tried making their own conlangs.
I tried making my own conlang once, but only invented the phonology and came up with a few vocabulary words on a Swadesh list before I gave up. Some people really take conlanging seriously,like these people: Conlang Bulletin Board Be warned, they're a tough crowd when it comes to conlanging. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 8 04 June 2012 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My twin brother and I apparently "had our own language" when we were very young. I think
that may be a slight over-exaggeration on our parents' part since all I remember is coming up with made-up names for certain toys, but still. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4651 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 4 of 8 12 July 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I tried conlanging for a short while (I needed a language for a fantasy world) - but then I just decided to go with machine-translated Irish, since I needed placenames and very short phrases.
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| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4929 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 5 of 8 14 July 2012 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I play with conlanging now and then. I have one language with all the grammar but none
of the vocabulary I need, and another one I've only just started poking at. Both of my languages have countries and cultures to go with, but not every constructed language does by any means. Creating a language seems to take at least as much effort as learning one, at least if it's going to be a language you can actually speak. Lots of fun, though, if you have the patience for it. I tend to go through streaks of working on my conlangs, but vocabulary comes slowly, since I like to see if I can connect stuff etymologically, which takes a lot more time than just generating a ton of words. I should be less uptight about it, really. As for those "sa" suffixes and the "kaiya," a lot of languages use suffixes and prefixes to fulfill grammatical purposes. "sa" could be an indication of tense (making it the present tense as opposed to the past or something), or maybe of formality. For all I know, "kaiya" might indicate the presence of a "teasing tense," making the whole phrase of "You are crazy" less of an insult on the whole. That's one of the great things about conlangs. You can include the weird little words and tenses and moods that you might not find in any other language. Edited by mikonai on 14 July 2012 at 12:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4870 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian | Message 6 of 8 14 July 2012 at 3:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Friends don't let friends conlang.
I better run for cover now. Though seriously, there are so many endangered languages that I do get irked when I see things like Klingon and the Avatar language. The creators of these movies could shine a light—even temporary—on these tongues in danger of vanishing instead of inspiring people to learn art languages. And they are works of art (and I'm probably just destroying my argument there, but alas). I see why things like Esperanto and Lojban were done, but they don't catch me on a personal level. As for actual conlangers, I understand why they do what they do. It is, at some level anyway, fun for them. (And I probably shouldn't talk as my interests lie with dead languages.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4865 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 8 14 July 2012 at 5:53am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I've created a handful of languages, including one I did as a 30-day challenge to create
enough of the language to translate 2200 words taken from the Chapter Nine of the novel The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The result is under "A 30-Day Constructed Language" on my constructed languages page: http://fiziwig.com/conlang/ Some people like building model railroads, I like building model languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 8 of 8 14 July 2012 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yup. :-) Some art needs to be restored and protected, but people will continue to create, as well.
Many serious conlangers, take cues from such languages, as I understand it. Klingon has influences from indigenous North American languages like Nahuatl, for instance. They also take inspiration from ancient languages. Again, I think Klingon had some influence from Hittite but I'm not positive. But there are other examples, like Latin reforms. I actually agree with you partly, though. I think that protecting endangered languages for things unto themselves is something that really merits doing, and if could find a way to do that, I would love to.
Same here as far as ancient languages go. I love them as well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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