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Topic: Fictional language

	Constructed language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose vocabulary and grammar are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages.
		Constructed languages are often divided into a priori languages, in which much of the grammar and vocabulary is created from scratch (using the author's imagination or automatic computational means), and a posteriori languages, where the grammar and vocabulary are derived from one or more natural languages.
		Since these languages are not usually intended for easy learning or communication, a naturalistic fictional language tends to be more difficult and complex, not less (because it tries to mimic common behaviours of natural languages such as irregular verbs and nouns, complicated phonological rules, etc.).
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Constructed_language (745 words)

	List of fictional languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fictional languages are created specifically for a work of fiction, such as a movie or book.
		Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) is the language of the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates; it is similar to Latin.
		Kad'k, the language of the Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_languages (906 words)

	Fictional language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some authors use fictional languages (also known as artistic languages, as opposed to International auxiliary languages intended for actual use) as a device to underline differences in culture, by having their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated.
		A fictional language is separated from an artlang (language constructed for beauty or fun) by both purpose and relative completion: a fictional language generally has the least amount of grammar and vocabulary possible, and it is made usually for a novel or movie.
		Others have developed languages in detail for their own sake, such as the languages of Middle-earth of J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fictional_language (195 words)

	Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Constructed: Fictional
		Fictional languages are created, generally by an individual but sometimes by a group, and not intended primarily as a means of international communication (see International Auxiliary) but as a work of art, a component of a work of fiction, or a tool to study the workings of language.
		Languages in Bergonia · cached · Grammar, phonology and scripts for two artificial languages, Nacateca (based loosely on Central American languages) and Minidun.
		O Dananxao - The Danan Language · cached · Danan is a synthetic and creative language which is designed to be an aesthetic natural language fake which thrives on ambiguity.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=253444 (1135 words)

	Articles - Constructed language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Musical languages from the Renaissance were tied up with mysticism, magic and alchemy, sometimes also referred to as the language of the birds.
		Artistic languages, constructed for literary enjoyment or aesthetic reasons without any claim of usefulness, begin to appear in Early Modern literature (in Pantagruel, and in Utopian contexts), but they only seem to gain notability as serious projects from the 20th century.
		Tolkien was the first to develop a family of related fictional languages and was the first academic to publicly discuss artistic languages, admitting to A Secret Vice of his in 1930 at an Esperanto congress.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Constructed_language (1417 words)

	Style: Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds - Review
		Fictional worlds are possible worlds constructed by language through a performative force granted to imaginative literature by cultural convention.
		Fictional worlds are not representations (mimesis) of the actual world but autonomous realities called into being through the unrestricted creative power of fictional language.
		The alethic system is shown to be responsible for the division of the population of fictional worlds into groups of different abilities (gods versus humans, or the seeing among the blind), as well as for the categorization of fictional worlds as a whole as realist, fantastic, or nonsensical.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_3_32/ai_55082390 (1051 words)

	Language in India
		In the fiction, the underclass may be brutalized by its inability to access the power available through English, but it also becomes visible in the gaps established by the inability of the English language to translate its experiences.
		Language belongs to the symbolic field; the choice of a national language becomes a crucial issue when the dominant middle class, whose power rests on economic capital, aims to impose the legitimacy of its dominance through the continued currency of English in India.
		Nehru was unable to retain Hindi as the only official language as per the Official Languages Act in 1963; he had to amend it in 1967 to retain English as the associate official language.
	www.languageinindia.com /oct2004/fixinglanguage2.html (10777 words)

	Language Classifications
		fictional language - A model language intended to be used by characters in a fictional setting, typically for added verisimilitude and regardless of whether the fictional setting has been highly commercialized or barely outlined, whether the medium is a movie, a novel, a short story, a historical sketch, a game or something else.
		fictional diachronic language - A model language with an elaborate fictional history, typically tracing its evolution from an ancestor language or language family (which may be a natural language or model language).
		Granted, there is a lot more to a language design than that one factor, but it seemed like a reasonable hook on which to hang a system of classification.
	www.langmaker.com /mlclass.htm (462 words)

	Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Whorf's formulation of this 'principle of linguistic relativity' is often stereotyped as a 'prisonhouse' view of language in which one's thinking and behavior is completely and utterly shaped by one's language.
		She is shocked by the "violence" of their language, as she believes their word choices and language structure reflect a culture of enormous violence.
		Babel-17—science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany that supposes that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is strongly true, depicting a fictional language, Babel-17, which causes anyone who learns it to become a traitor to their political organisation
	www.exoticfelines.com /search.php?title=Sapir-Whorf_Hypothesis (2643 words)

	Conlang Directory: Fiction: Other
		A science fiction language invented by Herman Miller, one of the Mizarian languages, spoken by a kind of rat people.
		Fictional language spoken by people of the fourth century BC on an island in the Mediterranean.
		This language was invented by the king of Talossa, a little-known country bordering Lake Michigan, encompassing part of Milwaukee.
	www.quetzal.com /conlang/fict.html (509 words)

	Search: Science>Social Sciences>Language and Linguistics>Constructed Languages>Fictional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		The language of the Ndake of the Mamberamo Basin.
		Litaja is the official 2nd language for the Realm of Lykosha.
		Gevey is a language spoken in the continent Ewlah on planet Kallieda, by Rik Roots.
	aoltvsearch.aol.com /cat.adp?id=253444 (654 words)

	van Oort - Review Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		The pragmatic domain of "ordinary language" is not the same as the aesthetic context of fictional language.
		And yet promising though Esterhammer's dialectic is for a speech-act analysis of literature, particularly in its sensitivity to the fictional or "phenomenological" speech act, her perspective is hindered by a general evasion of the ontological question of worldly reference, of true statements as opposed to fictional ones.
		For though there is a bona fide anthropological truth to the argument that the language of reference and the language of fiction arise from the same source, the force of this argument remains handicapped by Esterhammer's unwillingness to provide an adequate model that can incorporate her notion of a continuum more rigorously.
	www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu /ap0102/vano.htm (4845 words)

	Excerpts from the work of Suzette Haden Elgin
		For the Láadan language, which was constructed to express the perceptions of women, I began by translating the Twenty-Third Psalm, because the King James Bible is one of the most masculine-perception-expressing books I know of and that psalm is the right size.
		Many contemporary linguists insist that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in its strong form (language controls perceptions) is nonsense, which is true, and either ignore the weak version (language constrains and structures perceptions) or call it nonsense too—which is false, and is itself nonsense.
		In his concluding discussion on Utopias and Dystopias that have language as a mechanism of control, Meyers makes this important point: when writers assume that language can be used as a primary instrument for controlling people, they also assume that some magical way of preventing natural language change is available.
	www.sfwa.org /members/elgin/SHE_Excerpts01.html (2095 words)

	Untitled Document
		Fictional entities, I submit, are a paradigm of entities that both exist independently of certain linguistic practices and yet are, in a sense, created by those practices.
		The connection is that whenever one of us uses a name in the fictional way (in which case one's use refers to nothing), then that automatically enables any of us to use the name in the hypostatizing way, in which case we are referring to an actually existing fictional entity.
		The language game we play with properties allows us19 to nominalize any predicate 'F' as 'the property of being F' and to be assured of its referring to the property of being F. In this way, we know that there's the property of being a dog and the property of being of such-and-such genotype.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/philo/courses/concepts/lclie.html (7009 words)

	Tlön language \| Antimoon Forum
		It is interesting because in this fictional language there is no substantives.
		"There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value.
		But for me the best language invention in literature is the Borges' one.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6318.htm (153 words)

	Style: Drawing fictional lines: dialect and narrative in the Victorian novel
		While a reading of Tess's language alone might suggest that this novel presents a typical narrative of standard English supplanting dialect, a wider reading of the presentation of language in the novel reveals a subtle but persistent attack on the dominance of standard English through a fictolinguistic patterning of speech.
		In their criticisms of dialect in fiction, Victorian critics, though they celebrated the use of different language styles in the novel, strenuously upheld the boundary between standard and dialect language styles.
		And yet, when we read Victorian novels we see much language that is neither one thing nor the other, as we see the recurrence, in novels like Dickens's, of characters whose language deviates from various other socio-linguistic expectations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_32/ai_54019319/pg_6 (864 words)

	Semantic Compositions: Why SC likes fictional languages now
		Not terribly long after starting up, Semantic Compositions managed to ruffle some feathers by talking about fictional languages and contrasting the effort spent on them by their devotees with the efforts currently going into archiving dying languages.
		This seems to be further confirmation that fictional language learners aren't just the sorts who have spent a few too many hours standing in line for the latest Star Wars (SC supposes this can be forgiven for The Phantom Menace, because nobody knew, but not for Attack of the Clones).
		So, having seen what people who study fictional languages are really like, SC will cite John Maynard Keynes, who famously said "When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir?".
	semanticcompositions.typepad.com /index/2004/03/why_sc_likes_fi.html (1377 words)

	Senu Yivokuchi
		The language spoken by the Bokuchi doesn't have a name of its own; it's just called senu yivokuchi, "language of the Bokuchi" (the change from b to v in the name is an example of fricative mutation), or, among the speakers, senu khai "our language".
		SYV is the official language used for public announcements, written laws and textbooks.
		Although SYV is ultimately related to at least one of the languages we (people of the 21st century) know and speak, it's impossible to say which one, or even to classify it into a linguistic family of those we have so far recorded.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/nyh/bokuchi/lng (539 words)

	A New Word Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		The fictional language, Ku, was created for the Sydney Pollack-directed film by Said el-Gheithy, the head of the Centre for African Language Learning in London.
		Once a fictional country was in place, Pollack had to figure out what type of accent to give Kidman when she speaks in English.
		Africans from that area will recognize the language, he says, "but will be slightly confused" by the new structure he gave Ku.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0430ku30.html (647 words)

	Pakuni - Conlang Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		It's creator, Victoria Fromkin, was a major figure in the history of the UCLA Linguistic Department: one of its first Ph.D.'s, a faculty member from 1965 to her death in 2000, and for many years the Dean/Vice Chancellor of the UCLA Graduate Division.
		Her research interests included the brain and language, lexical representation and access, processing models, speech errors as linguistic evidence, and linguistic explanations of aphasic language.
		For many children, this was their first exposure to a fictional language.
	www.langmaker.com /db/mdl_pakuni.htm (243 words)

	Language
		You could say that a culture is defined by their language (but then, how else can you define except in terms of language?).
		Tolkien's great work of fiction found its genesis in language -- as he invented his new languages, he had to invent the peoples who spoke them and the history that changed them.
		Klingon Language Institute deals with a fictional language that was actually developed by a linguist.
	www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com /language.htm (562 words)

	Gargish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		Gargish is the fictional language used by the gargoyle race in the Ultima computer game series.
		Gargoyles avoid using pronouns or verb tense unless it is crucial to comprehension; therefore the language is often spoken in the infinitive.
		Note that this the same language is used for the mantras of Virtue, and for the words of power for magic.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gargish.htm (259 words)

	Not Yet History
		This site is devoted to the exposure of my work, which consists in the creation of fictional settings (peoples, cultures, societies) with a special emphasis on their languages.
		The Bokuchi live in the mouth of the Persian Gulf around the beginning of the 21st Millennium, in a time where no fossil fuels are left.
		The Terb (or Terbians) are a people of fishermen and farmers that live somewhere on Earth, in the far future (so far that the Earth now has days of 24 hours and 20 minutes).
	www.angelfire.com /scifi2/nyh (285 words)

	D'ni grammar:Foreword - Wikibooks
		The language was created by Cyan employee Richard A. Watson, or RAWA during the production of the game Riven.
		Information about the language and vocabulary, have been provided in the three Myst books.
		Online communities study the language, sometimes with contribution by RAWA himself, who doesn't like to give out information easily, and prefers only to clarify matters rather than give translations.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/D'ni_grammar:Foreword (223 words)

	languagehat.com: KLINGON INTERPRETER [NOT] NEEDED.
		The fictional language of the popular TV and movie science fiction series is one of about 55 languages needed by the office that treats mental health patients in metropolitan Multnomah County.
		County research has shown that Klingon has gone from being a fictional tongue to what many people -- and not just fans -- consider a complete language, with its own grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
		Posted by: language hat at May 11, 2003 06:48 PM
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000588.php (242 words)

	A Láadan Sampler
		I therefore chose as medium the writing of a science fiction novel about a future America in which the woman-language had been constructed and was in use.That book, called Native Tongue, was published by DAW Books in August 1984.
		I therefore began, on June 28, 1982, the construction of the language that became Láadan....
		I passed that goal early on, and in the fall of 1982 the journal Women and Language News published the first writing in the language, a Nativity story written from Mary's point of view.
	www.sfwa.org /members/elgin/LanguageImperative/laadansampler.html (833 words)

	How to create a language: Creating words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
		If you're creating a full language (which I assume you are, because you wouldn't have come this far if you weren't), then you'll need about 2000 (two thousand) words to communicate with a certain comfort.
		Take any collection of English concepts you like, and translate the first one with a certain word in your language, and all the others with words that rhyme with it.
		There's a very interesting list of words (the Universal Language Dictionary) which comprises 1600 words divided into topics, and used in some way by the most common languages of the world.
	www.pueblacity.com /ego-pdf/ng/lng/how/how_creating.html (785 words)

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