Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Constructed languages

Comments on constructed languages are not off limits in this blog. To some extent all languages are decended from constructed languages at some point. "Toki Pona" is one that I've kind of been interested in for a while. Created by Sonja Elen in 2001, Toki Pona is a minimalist language with only 118 words that have to be combined in certain ways to create more complex ideas.

check it out at tokipona.org.

Quenya and Sindarin are nice but really aren't workable as spoken languages. Klingon on the other has many speakers. I'm reminded of this article from the Onion. Of course, Navajo's situation isn't quite that precarious but the truth in article makes it funny.

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