what’s your favorite constructed language? any of you created your own?
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Esperanto!
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Elvish from Lord of the Rings really can't be beat. I never learned it but I would if it were more practical.
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Australian.
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I lost several hours to Esperanto on Friday:
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Do programming languages count?
mv deported, elonturnip -
North Jersey Gutter Mouth
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Depends on your sock situation
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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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Sorry, still debugging the code...
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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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