I was just wondering if there are any conlangers, auxlangers, artlangers, etc., in SciForums.

I myself am making a Germanic conlang. I'm trying to make it with as few Latin borrowings as possible. So it's kinda the opposite of the Romance conlangs that're all the rage.

So, were are the conlangers here?

What's conlanging?

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A conlang is a constructed language. To conlang is to construct a language.

Auxlangers, artlangers, and others are in essence conlangers, but the two terms are more specific.

Auxlangers create languages that are intended to be an auxiliary language for people who speak two different languages. Esperanto is an example auxlang. Artlangers make languages for artistic purposes. J.R.R. Tolkein was a famous artlanger. His stories were full of different people and creatures that spoke the different languages he made himself.

:) Got it now?

Good Luck Man... I hope you have a large following. I can't even get my roomate to make a secret language with me.

Do ya conlang, sevenblu?

Should there be a Linguistics forum? Answer here!

I can't be the only conlanger on all of SciForums . . . !

Looks like it, I never felt the need to create a language.

Man, this is stupid.

Is anyone merely interested in conlanging?

actually i am. my friend and I are just now creating anew language, based on symbols. we're going to make the most basic nouns and verbs, then teach them to everyone else who is a junior in IB, the see how it develops. :m:

but yeah, explain this conlanging concept to me, and ill try it out. :m:

Although the term is new to me, I have toyed with the idea of a "conlang".

Some of the principles are:
1. The basic unit is not the word, but the syllable, or "root". A root consists of a vowel and a consonant - e.g. "al", "bo", etc. Vowels can also form a syllable by themselves sometimes.
2. There is no fundamental distinction between a word and a sentence. A "word" can be one root, a compound of several roots or a compound of compounds. In essence, every word is a sentence. For example, "ezi" = "I am" (or more literally, "exist I"). In even simpler form, "i" by itself also means "I am".
3. Double letters are not allowed. In speech, they are simply ignored. In writing, the second letter is denoted by an apostrophe, for clarity. Similarly, diphthongs are not allowed. Every vowel is pronounced individually.
4. Etc. (if anybody is interested).

yeah, its kinda weird, but really cool. Now we just need our linguistics forum, and we'll be good. :m:

i made a script language several years back, it closely resemled russian pronounciation, didnt do much with it. i called it jhekallaux, pretty random pronounciation

I'm curious, vslayer . . . What's a script language?