Constructed & Invented Languages

LINKS and WHATNOT 1.) Lingua Ignota - Hildegard von Bingen! 2.) “linguistic artifacts“ -- We need more of these. 3.) Human languages disappearing: 4.) Conlangs as model langs: 5.) See also, Ian Watson - “The Embedding“ for a fictional look at what language can and can’t do with the human brain. 6.) Writing tablet, “Phonecian inscriptions“ found online. Codes & Naming Languages 7.) Shavian, a way of writing English, invented by George Bernard Shaw: 8.) Lapine, in Richard Adams’s “Watership Down“ 9.) Languages of Frank Herbert’s “Dune“ series: :Languages 10.) Harry Potter magical language: 11.) “Quest for Fire“-- go see this movie. The Neanderthal language was created by Anthony Burgess, who also created Nadsat for “A Clockwork Orange“. The Sapiens’ language was apparently a hodgepodge of Cree/Inuit words. (film) Full Langs 12.) Klingon: 13.) Dothraki: 14.) Sindarin... for all of Tolkien’s languages, start here: or go buy this book: 15.) Láadan 16.) Esperanto The World Esperanto Association: or, I personally like: Lernu! 17.) Ido 18.) Novial For both Ido & Novial, start here: #Novial_compared_to_Esperanto_and_Ido Underdeveloped Langs 19.) SolReSol If the site is still up, see: 20.) Khuzdûl, Entish (see #14, above) 21.) Clan of the Cave Bear. Apparently, the language of the novel is not manual, but totally vocal. I guess I need to read the books. AuxLangs 22.) I’m not anti-German by any means. Love the language, love the people, just got back from Berlin. But there is an easily accessed history there... Anti-German WWI Propoganda posters: 23.) Esperanto (see #16, above) 24.) SolReSol (see #19, above) --SolReSol video created by Evan Wilson for my LIN 312 class at UT, Fall 2005. You can see the full video here: #studentwork Philosophical Langs 25.) Loglan: 26.) some links about BASIC: 27.) Python: Art Langs 28.) Klingon (see #12) 29.) Dothraki (see #13) 30.) Quenya, Sindarin (see #14) 31.) Láadan (see #15) Personal Langs 32.) Lingua Ignota (see #1, above) 33.) Voynich Manuscript is another good example of a likely personal lang / code: