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#+title: Conlanging
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#+setupfile: ../headers
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#+language: en
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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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[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto][Esperanto]] and [[https://elefen.org][Lingua Franca Nova]]
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- be a secret language between a couple of people
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- as a thought experiment, like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban][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 [[https://conlang.phundrak.com/proto-nyqy][Proto-Ñyqy]] and [[https://conlang.phundrak.com/eittlandic][Eittlandic]]. Both are accompanied by their own
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worldbuilding project, although Proto-Ñyqy’s worldbuilding is still
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largely secret while Eittland’s worldbuilding is mostly public.
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More information can be found on my [[https://conlang.phundrak.com/][conlanging website]].
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