what’s your favorite constructed language? any of you created your own?
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Ithkuil I find really interesting. I’ve never attempted to learn it, but the idea is cool. Gets me thinking about the philosophy of language.
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As my native language is one of those that inspired it and only quite a few speak it, almost.
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I think Globasa is one of the best attempts at creating an international language without bias toward any natural language family (looking at you Esperanto).
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+1 for Toki Pona!
It’s a very small language (< 200 words) that forces you to think about how you think. It’s not hard to learn and quite wholesome. The name means “The Language of Good”
Also there is an amazing art scene around the language. Being able to listen to the music keeps me going.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqCH2JzaHCjZ84qxUQXrwAjpKQEowGsn9&si=7eqbIW4vm0hlQPLj
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For one of my game stories, I made a language called Philter that was replaced by Deen after The Machine War. Still not complete but I have a few characters made.
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Martin knew he should learn Esperanto to cast magic spells.
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Kalama Sin podcast is a good one for listening comprehension. No new episodes since July though
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I have created many constructed languages, but most aren't in-depth and basically only exist because I enjoy coming up with new words. I don't have a favorite, but I like ones with interesting grammar such as Goptjaam, UNLWS, Drsk, and Fith among others. That said, I've gravitated more to looking at other people's conlangs as I got older. It's been a while since I really tried very hard to create an interesting conlang.
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https://minilanguage.com/ is an interesting one to look at. There are exactly 1000 words in the total vocabulary. That’s Mini Mundo though. A second, smaller variant also exists: Mini Kore, with 100 words.
I started learning it too soon after learning Toki Pona and lost steam. But I agree with the design principles. They stem from the observation that Toki Pona, as fun as it is, is just too damn ambiguous for anything non-superficial. All too often speakers need to clarify what they said by switching to a natural language. Even my own Toki notes become indecipherable after a few days.
Toki Pona: fun, therapeutic mental exercise, made even better with sitelen pona. Feels like writing poetry. Never meant to be a useful language. Easy to learn, hard to use.
Mini: useful as a language for general purpose communication. Small, primarily latinate vocabulary. Harder to learn, easier to use.
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I think not even it's creator is fluent in ithkuil.
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Chu vi konas aktivan Esperanto-komunumon en la fediverso? Mi abonas [email protected] kaj [email protected] kaj [email protected] kaj apenau iam ajn iu afishas ion ajn en iu ajn el ili.
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Lojban. IIRC it's inspired by the Saphir-Worf hypothesis that states that the capacity for human thought is shaped by the language you speak (side note: this is also explored in my favorite movie Arrival).
As someone who is probably on the spectrum I am incredibly frustrated by imprecise language and misunderstanding between people, and how people always seem to be reading between the lines instead of paying attention to what you are literally saying.
Lojban is designed almost like set-theoretic mathematical expressions, leaving minimal room for ambiguity and misunderstanding. It's like a utopian language for me. Ironically after it gained only a couple of hundred speakers it started to develop slang expressions and ambiguity. People even wrote poetry and jokes that proliferate and exploit ambiguity or subtext. I guess it's human nature to shun precision in what they say.
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Jes, mi konas tiujn komunumojn. Mi ne ofte uzas Esperanton sed mi vere devus pli.
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Antau longa tempo (antau ol la fediverso ekzistis) mi estis tre aktiva en la forumo de lernu.net - nun mi demandas min, chu eble ghiaj administristoj pretus konekti tiun forumon al la fediverso? Eble iu, kiu legas tion chi, ankorau havas manieron kontakti ilin pri tiu ideo. Ghi certe estus bona por ilia forumo, por la fediverso, por Esperanto.
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It's been our biggest error since the Scientific Revolution, assuming the universe can be broken down into its simplest most precise parts. Materialism has many strong achievements but it's not the whole picture. Perhaps it is the interplay between polarities that brings us closer to understanding precision as contextual and nuanced...
Recognizing how our consciousness permeates our percepts, and how language is the synthesis of this... Everyone is being as precise is they have the capacity to be, colored by spirit and with their soul.
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If I were to learn another besides toki pona, I'd def go with this one. The way globasa adds words makes it much more international than nearly every other conlang.
