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| Alien Languages; have you tried it? | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 1 2010, 09:28 PM (3,677 Views) | |
| Canis Lupis | Nov 1 2010, 09:28 PM Post #1 |
I'm watching you.
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Currently, I am developing a sapient for life on Gliese 581 d. In fact, that was primarily what I was working on during my abscence. I'll post a topic about it and other life from the planet soon. However, since Spring Break, I have been developing a language for these sapients (called the Aunphu). I've actually been having a lot of fun with it and a few of my friends have been interested in learning it. My question to you is, have you ever tried to develop an alien language? This is primarily geared towards extraterrestrials, but if you have a sapient that evolved on an alternate timeline or evolved in the future, feel free to mention it. If you have, how far in your language have you gotten and would you care to give us a taste? (it doesn't have to be a full-fledged grammar textbook. A couple sentences will do) (admins, if this belongs more in general spec, feel free to move it. Since it's more geared towards extraterrestrials, I put it here). |
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| Parasky | Nov 1 2010, 09:39 PM Post #2 |
The Great Wizzard
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Nah, this works fine for the habitable zone because language also encompasses things like literature, art, and of course biology. I've never actually attempted to sit down and make up a whole language. I tend to give my aliens unusual forms of communication such as magnetopathy or some combination of audio and visual stimuli. Plus I give them alien psychologies, so their actual language greatly differs from human languages. Some lack a concept of opposites, others have concepts the human brain simply cannot comprehend (like a past-yet-future tense). I try to make languages very alien, since languages seem to be something that science fiction doesn't like to explore. |
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| Canis Lupis | Nov 1 2010, 09:46 PM Post #3 |
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Past-yet-future? How is that possible? Yeah, it's sad how languages are left out to dry in sci-fi. Only fantasy (ala "Lord of the Rings") really explored it. |
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| colddigger | Nov 1 2010, 09:52 PM Post #4 |
Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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I see what you did there. |
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| Dragon wasp | Nov 1 2010, 10:01 PM Post #5 |
Prime Specimen
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well i have started working on a launguage for the Fawns..... Unless it is based off of english IT IS REALLY HARD! here: Hae mearo Hae (Us, we, together, you and me) mearo (good like) or maybe Hae meeyno raza oeuo basically: we bad destroy enviroment (roughly) |
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| Mike | Nov 2 2010, 02:51 AM Post #6 |
Adult
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kāo jònca, wī cálàl ràrbaos ("Yeah dude, i language made") |
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| Empyreon | Nov 2 2010, 01:52 PM Post #7 |
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I'm considering exploring language with my next xenobiology project. (Nereus has no sapient species.) I've bought The Language Construction Kit to brush up on relevant linguistic concepts for the project. |
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| SIngemeister | Nov 2 2010, 02:14 PM Post #8 |
Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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I've got a coupleof Garar words, but I've only really developed 'Ket' as a prefix meaning 'military'. Ketra (Ket-RAH) is a soldier |
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| lamna | Nov 2 2010, 02:16 PM Post #9 |
In war, victory. In peace, vigilance. In death, sacrifice.
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What an odd coincidence, I just finished a cracked article about language. http://www.cracked.com/article_18823_5-insane-ways-words-can-control-your-mind.html |
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| Mike | Nov 3 2010, 01:23 PM Post #10 |
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là kwōna zhòwawa bō càiiyásaa? cálàl pāgxalal xà shū "the reason people stuff not saying? language questions on me" or in more understandable terms "why aren't y'all posting, languages intrigue me" come on, talk about your languages! |
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| SIngemeister | Nov 3 2010, 02:34 PM Post #11 |
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Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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I'm working on a joke. Dunno which race would do it. |
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| Empyreon | Nov 3 2010, 03:39 PM Post #12 |
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Sadly, I don't have one yet, Mike. My linguistic directions are still in their formative stages. (I don't even know what the aliens who speak it are like yet!) |
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| Clarke | Nov 3 2010, 03:48 PM Post #13 |
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I think I'll do one. |
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| Canis Lupis | Nov 3 2010, 06:00 PM Post #14 |
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I'm watching you.
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Here's a preview of the Aunphu's language Glieshan (note: Glieshan doesn't use spaces. They're written language is more like cuneiform. If you see ', that is the same thing as a space.) (also note: there are no periods, question marks, or exclamation marks. Only a lightning bolt-esque symbol is used to seperate words. I will use a period instead of this. But as for the other two, Glieshans use the letter "n" and "m" for exclamation marks and question marks respectively. These go at the beginning of sentences)
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| SIngemeister | Nov 3 2010, 06:25 PM Post #15 |
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Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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So in Alien, you're a creepy Internet pedophile. |
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