{"id":277,"date":"2009-07-15T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T14:30:16","slug":"conlags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/conlags\/","title":{"rendered":"Conlags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/conlangflag-300x185.png\" alt=\"The conlag flag\" title=\"The conlag flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/conlangflag-300x185.png 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/conlangflag.png 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>After writing about Klingon for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/\u201ct1hingan-mah\u201d\u2026-of-television\u201ct1hingan-mah\u201d-or-the-power-of-television\/\">recent post<\/a>, I was intruiged by the concept of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructed_language\">invented languages <\/a>\u2013 that is, languages that have been created by people from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk\/~jrk\/conlang.html\">constructed languages<\/a>, or conlags, there seem to be a number of reasons for people creating their own languages \u2013 chief among them being \u201ccool idea!\u201d Others have more utopian views, such as the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esperanto.net\/info\/index_en.html\">Esperanto<\/a> (probably the most famous of conlags) who envisioned his language being spoken as a second language by those all over the world as a means to promote understanding. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve stumbled across a number of interesting conlags whilst searching the internet, including <a href=\"http:\/\/tokipona.org\/intro.html\">Toki Pona<\/a>, \u201ca minimal language that focuses on the good things in life\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/interlingua.htm\">Interlingua<\/a>, \u201can international auxiliary language developed by the International Auxiliary Language Association with financing from the Rockfeller Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation, the Research Corporation and principally the family of the heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris and her husband and children\u201d, making it probably the most well-funded of the conlags. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the dreams of their creators, however, conlags remain in the minority, as evidenced by another of their names \u2013 auxiliary languages. Whilst it\u2019s unlikely that you will meet a fellow Toki Pona speaker on your summer holiday in Ibiza, wouldn\u2019t it be great if you did? After all, the point of language is to enable communication. <\/p>\n<p>So, you\u2019re interested in creating your own language, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zompist.com\/kit.html\">this<\/a> toolkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After writing about Klingon for a recent post, I was intruiged by the concept of invented languages \u2013 that is, languages that have been created by people from scratch. Also known as constructed languages, or conlags, there seem to be a number of reasons for people creating their own languages \u2013 chief among them being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,109],"tags":[131,127,128,130,110,129],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esperanto","category-invented-languages","tag-auxiliary-language","tag-conlags","tag-constructed-languages","tag-interlingua","tag-klingon","tag-toki-pona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}