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<p><a name="deviasew"></a><a
href="https://jnw.freeservers.com/"><b>Deviasew</b></a> (Washington, Jonathan North)
- <i>fictional language</i> - 1997 <br>
The second language of the Elves, Men, Dwarves and Halflings of
the land of Câlnima ("Land"), Deviasew has a Latinate
grammar, with a vocabulary derived from Hebrew, English, French
and Spanish. The name <i>Deviasew</i> itself is the plural of <i>Devia</i>
(from Hebrew <i>devar</i>, "word").</p>
<p>Jonathan, one of the more prolific members of the <a href="#langmaker2">LangMaker2</a>
mailing list, wrote in to let me know that Deviasew has moved to
<a href="https://jnw.freeservers.com/">a new site</a>.<br>
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<p><a href="https://odin.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/solresol/">Solresol</a><a href="https://odin.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/solresol/"><b>:
Langue Musicale Universelle</b></a> (Sudre, Jean Francois)<a
name="Solresol"></a> - <i>international auxiliary language</i> - circa 1830<br>
Solresol is number six on this week's <a href="top10.htm">Top Ten
Model Languages</a> (as not seen on David Letterman). Solresol is
based on the musical scale and has just seven syllables: <i>do,
re, mi, fa, sol, la, si</i>. Sing with me now, "<i>Doe</i>,
a deer, a female deer; <i>ray</i>, a drop of golden sun..."
Ahem. Besides being the most likely lang. to be learned by Julie
Andrews, Solresol has another distinction. Most people think <a href="mlindex.htm#Volap%FCk">Volapük</a>
was the first international auxiliary language to become established
in actual use, but in fact Solresol was the first such language.
It was very popular in Europe for a few short years, but it faded
away completely, and little has been available about it on the Web
-- until now. <a href="https://odin.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/solresol/">A
good Solresol web site</a> finally exists, thanks to <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/">Jason
Hutchens</a>, and for the first time a <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/solresol/Dictionary.html">detailed
Solresol lexicon</a> is available. Hutchens points out that Sudre
planned on coining 9,072 five-note words (the lexicon lists one-
to four-note words), but there's no current record that he did so.
As <a href="https://www.Rick.Harrison.net/">Rick Harrison</a> has
<a href="outpost/solresol.htm">pointed out</a>, for a language as
popular as Solresol was, precious little information about it has
survived. <br>
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<td>Besides Solresol, Hutchens' site also offers <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/hal/Wacky.phtml">a
fun re-translation form</a>. To quote from <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/hal/transcripts/Wacky.html">its
output</a>, "To illustrate at which distance the machine translation
must disappear, I wrote my own interface with Babelfish, which translates
of English to a language chosen, and then represent the translation
behind still. This process can be reiterated until it stabilizes."
<p>In other madness on his site, he's written a chat bot named <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/hal/">MegaHAL</a>
whose <a href="https://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/%7Ehutch/hal/Best.html">best
conversation</a> included mention of a conlang named Stupid.<br>
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face="Arial"><b>Cetonian for E.T. Cetaceans</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">James E. F.
Landau</font></p>
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<p><a href="https://pages.prodigy.com/kankonia/cetonian.htm">Cetonian</a>
(Landau, James E. F.) - <i>fictional language</i> - 1998<i><br>
</i>If you have ever wondered what language whales might speak,
you will be interested in Cetonian, the language that the extraterrestrial
cetaceans of the planet Wuiou (called Cetonia in English). All words
are made up out of eight syllables, each approximating a sound that
can be made by the cetacean's blowhole: <i>ha</i>, <i>ho</i>, <i>hui</i>,
<i>ma</i>, <i>o</i>, <i>u</i>, <i>wa</i>, and <i>wui</i>. A typical
sentence is <i>huiuwui.ha.uhuiu.wui.ho.huiwaho</i>, "The dolphin
bit the fish." Landau looked to the songs of Terran whales
and dolphins for inspiration; some scientists claim these songs
hold tremendous amounts of information.<br>
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<p>Landau has assembled a lexicon numbering about 600 words thus far.
"I stick eight syllables together, simplest words shortest,
and when I've filled up all the possible X-syllable combinations,
I move on to attaching a meaning to words with X+1 syllables, sort
of like <a href="mlindex.htm#solresol">Solresol</a>. Except for
the words used by <a href="mlindex.htm#Kankonian">Kankonians</a>;
I made them up in Kankonian first, so you could say I made those
retroactively -- like Hergé making up <a href="mlindex.htm#syldavian">Syldavian</a>."</p>
<p>For another language of extraterrestrial sea creatures, check out
my own <a href="ilish.htm">Ilish</a>.<br>
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face="Arial"><b>Saalángal is an Austro-European Celebration</b></font></td>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Barry Garcia</font></p>
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<p><a href="https://student.monterey.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/contents.html">Saalángal</a>
(Garcia, Barry) - <i>personal language</i> - 1999<i><br>
</i>Designed to satisfy Garcia's own aesthetic, and to sound something
like a South East Asian language while not being derived from any
of them, Saalangal fuses some elements of European languages like
English or Spanish with a base derived from Austronesian languages
like Tagalog. Such fusion is mainly to be found within the verbal
structure, which has both focuses (from Tagalog) and tenses (e.g.,
present perfect tense, present progressive tense).<br>
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<p>Thanks to Peter Huston for writing in to help update a broken link
to Tsolyani.</p>
<p><a href="ftp://nexus.prin.edu/netbooks/primer.pdf"><b>Tsolyáni</b></a>
(Barker, Muhammad Abd-el-Rahman) - <i>fictional diachronic language<br>
</i>Tsolyani is one of the languages of <a href="https://www.tekumel.com">Tekumel</a>,
the world of M.A.R. Barker's fantasy role-playing game <i>Empire
of the Petal Throne</i> and novels (<i>Man of Gold</i>, <i>Flamesong</i>).
Though all these works are out of print, Tekumel, Tsolyani and the
<a href="ftp://nexus.prin.edu/netbooks/">other Tekumelani languages</a>
have a loyal following. Tsolyani was inspired by Urdu, Pushti and
Mayan; <a href="https://www.geocities.com/Athens/5383/uld2.txt">a
ULD lexicon is available</a>.<br>
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Spurgeon </font></td>
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<p><a href="https://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/ren2051/index.html">Otg</a>
(Spurgeon, Spencer, aka Galivad) - <i>fictional diachronic language</i>
- 1963<br>
Inspired by Celtic and Turkic languages, Otg (pronounced /o-ti/)
has word-initial case markers, vowel contrast and harmony for grammatical
function, and - as you may have gathered - contorted pronunciation
of the Latin orthography. The language is mainly agglutinative,
with the inflected nouns allowing free word order. The author has
coined over 16,000 words, not all yet on the web site. <br>
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face="Arial"><b>Tolkien, Growing Up With Language</b></font></td>
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<p> <a href="ml0108.htm">Issue 8</a> of <a href="ml00.htm">Model Languages</a>
is back on the Web after a long absence, describing Tolkien's langmaking
biography and ending with a sketch of my own Alvish. <br>
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face="Arial"><b>Jameld Is Zolid</b></font></td>
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<p> <a href="https://www.zeugma.force9.co.uk/zm">Jameld</a> (Campbell,
James) - <i>fictional diachronic language </i>- 1982<br>
Jameld has over 4,000 words, derived from German, French, Dutch,
Frisian and Esperanto. The author sums it up best, "Jameld
is a constructed language, with an organic heart and an imaginary
history. It is smooth and chocolatey on the outside, with a lovely
fluffy centre, and it won't fill you up. Oh, and it looks like this:
<i>Te missa eri jist eskrïri int Jameld. Oquo na possmä zë vorvor
ohn t'Internet!</i>" Campbell has published <a href="https://www.zeugma.force9.co.uk/zm/archive/index.htm">Jameld
translations in <i>Zolid Matters</i></a>, his e-journal.<br>
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face="Arial"><b>Babel Texts for Two C.J. Cherryh Langs</b></font></td>
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<p> <a href="https://randyb.byu.edu/alioth/kiffbab.html">Kiffish</a>
(Cherryh, C.J. & Hill, Spence) - <i>professional fictional language</i>
<br>
Popular science-fiction author C.J. Cherryh sketched out Kiffish
for the "bad guys" in her ''Chanur'' series. With her
permission, linguist Spence Hill added details to the language,
based on her documentation of the anatomy and culture of the Kiff
themselves. Besides being ergative, Kiffish is a synthetic language,
rather than an agglutinative or order-bound language. </p>
<p>Spence also submitted Babel Text links for Cherryh's <a href="https://randyb.byu.edu/alioth/hanbab.html">Hani
</a>language, for his own <a href="https://randyb.byu.edu/alioth/sotobab.html">Sotonok
</a> language and for his friend T. Mitchell Pehrson's <a href="https://randyb.byu.edu/alioth/idrani.html">Idrani</a>.<br>
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<p> Zach May, the Babel Text curator, has updated the <a href="babel/babel.htm">Babel
Text</a>. New links include translations in <a href="babel/kankonian.htm">Kankonian</a>,
<a href="https://www.ship.edu/%7Ecgboeree/lfnintro.html"> Lingua
Franca Nova</a>, <a href="https://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8420/_babel.html">NovIALA</a>,
<a href="https://home.nuts.edu/%7Etaliesin/taruven/sketches/babel.html">tAruven</a>,
<a href="https://home.earthlink.net/%7Ebprice/babel.html">Vabungula</a>
and -- eh -- <a href="babel/eprime.htm">E-Prime</a>.<br>
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face="Arial"><b>Tepa Now on LangMaker.com</b></font></td>
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Elzinga </font></td>
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<p><a href="featured/tepa.htm">Tepa</a> is number 8 on my <a href="top10.htm">Top
10 list</a> of favorite model languages, and it is the highest ranked
personal artlang on that list (where it is up against published
languages like Quenya, Klingon and Lapine). As I say on my Top 10
page, Tepa is a unique personal language, professionally designed
and presented and highly regarded among the Internet community of
language makers. Which is why I am extremely pleased to announce
that Dirk Elzinga, Tepa's creator, is now hosting his Tepa Reference
Grammar on LangMaker.com! </p>
<p>Tepa is -- bar none -- the most professional treatment of an artlang
on the Internet. Besides the <a href="https://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eelzinga/babel.html">Tower
of Babel translation</a>, check out <a href="https://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eelzinga/rocks.html">Coyote
Eats Rocks</a> and <a href="https://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eelzinga/twotters.html">Two
Otters</a>, as well as his frame story about his <a href="https://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eelzinga/tepasrc.html">sources</a>.
Tepa is a delight to behold for the lover of languages.<br>
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<p><a href="folksprk.htm">Folkspraak</a> is a model language being
designed as a common Germanic language (an "Intergerman",
if you will). Once complete, Folkspraak should be quickly learnable
by any native speaker of a Germanic language. The language is evolving
into two dialects, called (tongue-in-cheek) Folkspraak Express and
Folkspraak Pro. The newcomer, Folkspraak Pro, is a superset of Folkspraak
Express that differs by emphasizing adherence to an artistic representation
of a Germanic language over ease of use; Folkspraak Pro will have
a richer grammar, a richer phonology and possibly a unique script
as well.</p>
<p>The two Folkspraak dialects have been created by a group of interested
people collaborating over the Internet. You can propose a word for
the language just by <a href="https://www.onelist.com/subscribe/folkspraak">joining
the discussion list</a> and e-mailing your proposed word, its meaning
and its form in three other Germanic languages (in addition to English).
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<p>If you haven't checked in on Folkspraak lately, a lot has been
happening -- please take a look at the mailing list's <a href="https://www.onelist.com/archives/folkspraak">archives</a>,
<a href="https://www.onelist.com/files/folkspraak">draft word lists</a>
and <a href="https://www.onelist.com/links/folkspraak">shared links</a>.<br>
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<p>Luta recently wrote in wondering what the basis for the <a href="top10.htm">Top
10</a> list was. Nothing, really. It's my subjective take on what
I think the ten most important model languages are, from a historical
perspective -- sort of like a historian's ranking of U.S. Presidents.
Your opinion may vary, and I encourage you to create your own Top
10 on your web site, and I'll point to it. I do feel that the top
6 of my Top 10 are pretty close to objective reality, though... <br>
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