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Introduction to Imaginary Languages (and How to Create Your Own!)

Introduction to Imaginary Languages (and How to Create Your Own!). Elen síla lumenn' omentielvo, meldonyar. Essenya na Ambartur Taurëpennevallo. Sillume quetuvalwe lambion ar parmaron. Nauvalye istime íre telyuvalwe.

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Introduction to Imaginary Languages (and How to Create Your Own!)

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  1. Introduction toImaginary Languages (and How to Create Your Own!)

  2. Elen síla lumenn' omentielvo, meldonyar.Essenya na Ambartur Taurëpennevallo. Sillume quetuvalwe lambion ar parmaron. Nauvalye istime íre telyuvalwe.

  3. ghojlu’meH QaQ jajvam, juppu’wI’!qo'che'wI' jonwI' puqloD 'oH pongwIj'e'. repvam paqmey Holmey je DIbuS. tIyaj!

  4. Other Termsfor Imaginary Languages • Planned language • Artificial language • Fictional language • Constructed language • “Conlang” for short

  5. Conlangs fall intothree general categories • Auxiliary languages orauxlangs • Esperanto, Glosa, Volapük, Interlingua, Folkspraak, Unish, Ido, Novial, Solresol, etc. • Logical languages or loglangs • Loglan, Lojban, Ithkuil, Ceqli, Gua/spi, AllNoun, Kel, Liva, Lojsk, etc. • Artistic languagesor artlangs • Quenya, Sindarin, Klingon, Lapine, Drac, D’ni, Ayeri, Umod, Askaic, Khangaþyagon, etc.

  6. Early Artlangs • c. 1150 “Lingua Ignota” – St. Hildegarde of Bingen • 1516 Utopia – Sir Thomas More • 1532 Gargantua and Pantagruel – Rabelais • 1638 The Man in the Moon: or a Discourse of a Voyage Thither – Bishop Francis Godwin • 1676 La Terre Australe Connue – Gabriel de Foigny • 1726 Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift • 1798 Human Vicissitudes or Travels Into Unexplored Regions - Anonymous (English) • 1871 The Coming Race – Edward Bulwer-Lytton • 1942 Islandia – Austin Tappan Wright

  7. Conlanging Exercise I… Creating a “naming language”

  8. Elves ~ Welcome to LIBRARIA ~

  9. ~ Welcome to LIBRARIA ~ BARBARIANS

  10. ~ Welcome to LIBRARIA ~ Gnomes

  11. Dragons ~ Welcome to LIBRARIA ~

  12. How popular is conlanging? • Google search results (5/3/2006) • “constructed languages” – 135,000 • artlang = 278,000 • Sindarin = 503,000 • Quenya = 523,000 • conlang = 1,200,000 • Klingon + language = 2,550,000

  13. How popular is conlanging? • CONLANG listserv – founded 1998, currently 1,029 members • Elfling listserv – founded 1998, currently 1,864 members • PC Magazine (April 6 (Spring) 2005): • Langmaker.com named one of the “Top 100 Web Sites You Didn’t Know You Couldn’t Live Without” • Langmaker.com has almost 1,500 conlangs indexed • First International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languges held August 4-8, 2005, at University of Stockholm • First Language Creation Conference held April 23, 2006 at Berkeley, CA.

  14. Conlanging Exercise II… Building Words - or - “Now, It Starts To Get Tricky”

  15. J.R.R. Tolkien 1892 ~ 1973

  16. Elvish Phrases Elen síla lumenn’ omentielvo. “A star shines on the hour of our meeting.” Mae govannen! “Well met!” Lasto! [Lasto beth lammen!] “Listen!” [“Listen to the words of my tongue!”] Noro lim! “Giddyap!” Namárië “Farewell”

  17. Conlanging Exercise III… Verbs and Word Order

  18. KLINGON

  19. KLINGON PHRASES nuqneH “Hello” (Literally: “What do you want?”) Qapla’ “Success” taH pagh taHbe’… “To be or not to be…” (…DaH mu’tlheghvam vIqeInIS…) Hab SoSlI’ Quch! “Your mother has a smooth forehead!”

  20. Conlanging Exercise IV & V… Nouns & Bringing It All Together

  21. Conlanger’s Bookshelf & Resources • Conlanger Resources • A Glossary of Constructed Language Terms • Swadesh List • English sounds in X-SAMPA • Conlanger’s Bookshelf • Fiction • Nonfiction • Games and Gaming Resources • Movies • Television • Web Links • www.geocities.com/donaldboozer

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