Transcript Fictional Languages

Fictional
Languages
The difference between fictional
and constructed languages
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Fictional languages are present in literature and movies by creating
a language with a unique, alien sounding grammar and phonology
with the goal of providing immersion and additional depth to the
world depicted in the work of art without claims of usefulness –
hence their name artlang, or artistical languages.
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Constructed languages are made for human use in the real world,
for the purpose of making it easier and more efficient to
communicate with each other.
Constructed languages
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Constructed languages are developed artifically instead of a
natural evolution like most languages
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They have many variants, such as:
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Microlanguages: Talossan – the official language of the Kingdom of
Talossa, a micronation located in Wisconsin, United States
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International Auxiliary Languages: Esperanto – a language meant to
ease communications between different nations, with an estimate
of 2 million speakers worldwide. It was proposed in 1887 and
accepted by UNESCO as an official language in 1954
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Communication with non-humans: Robot Interaction Language
(ROILA) – ROILA is a spoken language created with the goal of easy
human learning and efficient robotic recognition.
Fictional languages
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Examples include:
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Middle-Earth Languages – Created by J.R.R. Tolkien for the Middle
Earth universe, most famously known from the Lord of the Ring series,
including Elvish and Black Speech
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Klingon – Created by Mark Okrand for the fictional alien race of
Klingon from the Star Trek series
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Dothraki – Spoken language created by David J. Peterson for the
television adaptation of Game of Thrones written by George R. R.
Martin
The Languages of Tolkien
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Includes Elvish speech and Black speech, with their own alphabets,
the ‚tengwar’ or ‚sarati’
Klingon Language
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Has three noun classes (sentient beings, body parts, everything else)
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Has no articles (a table/ the table can only be inferred from
context)
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Verbs have no tenses, time adverbs define the ‚when’
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No adjectives
Dothraki language
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Spoken language of 3163 words
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During it’s creation, it had to reflect to the uses it has in the books as
well as being easy to learn by actors and actresses
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No written version
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Basic Subject – Verb – Object word order
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Inspired by the descriptions of George R. R. Martin and a few real
languages, such as Russian, Turkish and Swahili
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Dothraki do not have a word for ‚Thank you’
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The words that have been released so far can be all found at
http://docs.dothraki.org/Dothraki.pdf