- 1. A super-quick look at conlangs
2. Constructed languages
- Were invented intentionally by identifiable people 3. For lots
of reasons:
- To create a single international language 4. For fun 5. For use
in literature, movies, etc. 6. For linguistic or philosophical
research, training, or experimentation
7. The most-used conlang
- Esperanto 'the Hoper', invented by L. L. Zamenhof, with the aim
of creating a common second language for the entire world 8. Now
spoken by a million or two people 9. Up to a thousand native
speakers, the most famous being George Soros
10. Klingon
- Created for Star Trek by the linguist Marc Okrand 11. Spoken by
somewhere between 19 and 2,500 12. One native speaker, who
subsequently chose to stop speaking it
13. Quenya and Sindarin
- J. R. R. Tolkien's Elvish languages inThe Lord of the Ringsand
the rest of his Middle-Earth works 14. Also with their own writing
system
15. Lojban
- A logical language based on formal logic with no linguistic
ambiguity 16. Invented by James Cooke Brown (Loglan) and Robert und
Nora LeChevalier, with the Lojban community
17. Lojban
- Has logical predicates instead of functions 18. For example:
tavli X1 X2 X3 X4 19. = X1 [speaker] talks to X2 [hearer] about X3
[topic] in X4 [language] 20. .i tavli mi do la lojban. la lojban.
- 'I talk to you about Lojban in Lojban'
21. Ithkuil
- Created by John Quijada 22. Even he can't speak it because it's
too complicated
- An experiment about how compact language can be, to allow
information to be conveyed at a higher rate
- Among other things, by using almost all distinct sounds from
existing languages and tones!
23. Ithkuil examples
- Oumpe xuktx 24. Pull uqix mawag eyaufnien pw auxyat xnewtaui
tua kit ll yaqazmuiv liyrzika pam alowa uyehta
25. Toki Pona
- Created by Sonja Kisa to express her philosophy of simplicity
and positivity 26. Simple phonology and grammar; tiny vocabulary
(about 123 words), but surprisingly expressive
27. Toki Pona: Tower of Babel
- jan ali li kepeken e toki sama.
- jan li kama tan nasin pi kama suno li kama tawa ma Sinale li
awen lon ni. 28. jan li toki e ni: "o kama!mi mute o pali e kiwen.o
seli e ona."
- jan mute li toki e ni: "o kama! mi mute o pali e tomo mute e
tomo palisa suli. sewi pi tomo palisa li lon sewi kon. nimi pi mi
mute o kama suli! mi wile ala e ni: mi mute li lon ma ante mute."
29. jan sewi Jawe li kama anpa li lukin e ma tomo e tomo
palisa.
- All people used the same language. 30. They came from the path
of the sunrise and came to the land of Schinar and stayed there.
31. They said: Come! Let's work with stone. Heat it. 32. People
said: Come! Let's make many buildings and a big tower. The top of
the tower is in heaven. Our name will become important. We don't
want this: we are in many different lands. 33. God came down and
saw the city and the tower.
34. Toki Pona: Tower of Babel
- jan sewi Jawe li toki e ni: "jan li lon ma wan li kepeken e
toki sama li pali e tomo palisa. tenpo ni la ona li ken pali e ijo
ike mute." 35. "mi wile tawa anpa li wile pakala e toki pi jan mute
ni. mi wile e ni: jan li sona ala e toki pi jan ante."
- jan sewi Jawe li kama e ni: jan li lon ma mute li ken ala pali
e tomo. 36. nimi pi ma tomo ni li Pape tan ni: jan sewi Jawe li
pakala e toki pi jan ali. 37. jan sewi Jawe li tawa e jan tawa ma
mute tan ma tomo Pape.[Translation by 'Pije']
- God said: People are in one country and use the same language
and build a tower. Now they can do very bad things. 38. I want to
come down and want to ruin the language of these people. I want
this: People don't know the language of other people. 39. God
achieved this: people are in many lands and cannot build the
building. 40. The name of this city is Babel because God ruined the
language of all people. 41. God sent the people to many lands from
the city of Babel.