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# Conlanging
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*Conlangs*, short for *constructed languages*, are artificial
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languages born out of the mind of a single individual (sometimes a
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couple of them), unlike natural languages born through countless
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iterations by their native speakers, slowly evolving over time like
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English, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Bahasa, or !Xhosa did.
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They can serve various goals from their creators:
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- be spoken by as many people as possible as a neutral language, like
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[Esperanto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto) and [Lingua
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Franca Nova](https://elefen.org)
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- be a secret language between a couple of people
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- as a thought experiment, like [Lojban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban)
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- fill a litterary universe, like Tolkien’s elvish languages or Star
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Trek’s Klingon
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- for the sake of art itself
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In my case, the last two reasons are the main ones driving me to
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create languages. My two main projects at the time of writing this
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page are [Proto-Ñyqy](https://conlang.phundrak.com/proto-nyqy) and
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[Eittlandic](https://conlang.phundrak.com/eittlandic). Both are
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accompanied by their own worldbuilding project, although Proto-Ñyqy’s
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worldbuilding is still largely secret while Eittland’s worldbuilding
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is mostly public.
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More information can be found on my [conlanging
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2023-01-31 20:41:27 +00:00
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website](https://conlang.phundrak.com/).
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