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Languages and writing systems - Elanivalae - 04-26-2006 08:03 AM Is anyone else interested in languages and orthography? I've loved them both for as long as I can remember (they're almost certainly my most enduring interests). I created my first personal script in seventh grade and never looked back; I've always been curious as to whether anyone else is inclined to create his or her own writing systems and actually use them frequently. As far as languages go, I've studied French in the past and am currently seriously studying Japanese and sort of peripherally studying Korean, Russian, Esperanto, and Hindi. How about you? - Amy - 04-26-2006 01:09 PM In the past I had a long special interest in russian. Re: Languages and writing systems - Ken G. - 04-26-2006 03:00 PM Elanivalae Wrote: As far as languages go, I've studied French in the past and am currently seriously studying Japanese and sort of peripherally studying Korean, Russian, Esperanto, and Hindi. How about you?
I read the Hebrew & English alphabets. I'm now learning the Arabic alphabet (I already understand quite a lot of it). One day, I will learn the Greek alphabet. - Tiger of Malaysia - 04-26-2006 09:21 PM I had a friend who was an aspie and was deeply interested in that stuff. He would always expound the virtues of using a phoenetic writing system for English. Languages - Mariah - 05-03-2006 07:43 AM I've been studying Spanish since high school and since traveling to Mexico last summer, I'm nearly fluent. My writing isn't as good however. I've also studied a bit of Latin, Irish Gaelic (which I'm determined to learn, difficult as it may be) and American Sign Language. At some point I may study another romance language- perhaps Italian or Portuguese. I also have an Aspie friend who is a self-proclaimed "language geek". She double-majored in Spanish & German and also has invented several languages for her science fiction stories. - Lang - 05-04-2006 04:44 AM Whoohoo, how did I miss this one? I have invented at least twenty different alphabets (some of which are sadly lost :cry: ) I've an incomplete vocabulary for a language with six grammatical genders (yes, six) and no number in conjugation, and two parts of speech--verbs and nouns. I've played around a lot with different grammatical features, seeing how they might fit with one another. I have some reasonable competency in spanish and German; I'm working on learning Irish (right now, I'm on O Se's standard, as it's all I've got right now. Next I'll go into the individual dialects), picking up a smattering of Scottish, trying to find Manx and Cornish, Hebrew, Breton...actually, anything I don't have resources on already. I've got a welsh book, and Italian book (later, later, I must force myself to not study it!). I've done a little Russian, and I know the letters with reasonable certainty. Several foreign scripts I've adapted to write MdnEnglish include Anglo-Saxon Runes, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and at one point I even turned the Linear B syllabary into an alphabet for English. I also invented a more phonetic script for Gaelic based on the Celtiberian syllabary, and later a more universal alphabet based on THAT, but still specifically for languages with palatized/non-palatized consonant distinctions. I also adapted Cyrillic for Irish, resurrecting a lot of obsolete letters. Oh well. Some time ago, I found a book titled The Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe. It has the armenian alphabet, Georgian, glagolitic, as well as info on twelve (TWELVE!!!) different celtic languages, including lepontic, celtiberian, gaulish, cumbric and anything else you have never even heard of. I later found a website, Omniglot.com, that not only contains scripts from many and various cultures, but also codes and cants and inventions of visitors! It lists a huge number of languages, with blurbs about their history, and if they use the latin alphabet it shows their version of it. What I especially like to look at are the different semitic scripts and their evolution, and which letters corresond to latin and greeks ones. The arabic script, however, completely mystifies me, even though it is very beautiful. I would like to learn this language sometime as well. - Elanivalae - 05-07-2006 06:40 PM I LOVE omniglot. I look at that site and think, "And I want to learn that one, and that one, and that one..." xD Do you write in your alphabets a lot, or just sort of invent them for fun? - Lang - 05-12-2006 04:40 AM Elanivalae Wrote: I LOVE omniglot. I look at that site and think, "And I want to learn that one, and that one, and that one..." xD
Do you write in your alphabets a lot, or just sort of invent them for fun?
- Tomcat - 05-28-2006 05:45 PM I've been obsessed with languages and alphabets throughout my life. The scripts I know: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari (North Indian), Bengali, the languages: German, English, French, Spanish and Hindi well, and the basics of Italian, Bengali and all the other Germanic languages. You should this interesting forum here: http://home.unilang.org/main/index2.php - Lang - 05-29-2006 06:29 AM Devanagari is a very beautiful script. - Kuvdamos - 06-01-2006 12:59 AM ConLang Wrote: Whoohoo, how did I miss this one? I have invented at least twenty different alphabets (some of which are sadly lost :cry: ) I've an incomplete vocabulary for a language with six grammatical genders (yes, six) and no number in conjugation, and two parts of speech--verbs and nouns. I've played around a lot with different grammatical features, seeing how they might fit with one another.
Do you have any of those alphabets or conlangs online that we can look at?
- badspyro - 06-03-2006 02:39 AM why not make an aspie language? could be cool lol... i made up an alphabet once, but that was as far as I realy got, although I did think of designing a binary language, but decided it was FAR to impractical... - Lang - 06-03-2006 05:59 AM Kuvdamos Wrote: ConLang Wrote: Whoohoo, how did I miss this one? I have invented at least twenty different alphabets (some of which are sadly lost :cry: ) I've an incomplete vocabulary for a language with six grammatical genders (yes, six) and no number in conjugation, and two parts of speech--verbs and nouns. I've played around a lot with different grammatical features, seeing how they might fit with one another.
Do you have any of those alphabets or conlangs online that we can look at?
- Amadeus_lupin - 09-20-2006 02:26 PM I Have some interest in languages and would like to resuem study at some point in Irish Gaelic And Welsh. I've also studied etymolgoy a bit and my favourite historical atefact is the Rosetta stone - Keeno - 10-05-2006 10:45 PM I am very interested in languages, though more so in the past. They were my strongest subject in school and university (though in university, I didn't major in languages and my degree isn't in languages). In the linguistic sphere, I'm probably most interested these days in the phonetic make-up of languages, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. - nyanchan - 10-06-2006 06:07 AM I like Japanese and Latin, and recently began to study Spanish. I can sound out some Greek words too, from learning Classics at school and uni, but I never learnt Greek. There is so much more I would love to learn if I had time. :wink: The funny thing is, whenever I say I want to learn a new Language, people say "WHY?" as though it is silly or something. Nowadays they expect you to say "because I want to travel" or something like that. They don't expect you to say "because I want to learn more words." I keep a little book that whenever I see someone who is from another country or something I can ask them to do a language exchange with me. That way I can teach them some Latin and Japanese and they can teach me whatever they know. Things like how to count 1-10 etc. I heard that counting one to ten is the best way to tell which other languages the words are most closely related to. Because they hardly ever change with outside influence. :grin: - Dogface - 10-06-2006 03:48 PM nyanchan Wrote: I can sound out some Greek words too, from learning Classics at school and uni, but I never learnt Greek.
Quote: I heard that counting one to ten is the best way to tell which other languages the words are most closely related to.
- nyanchan - 10-07-2006 02:34 AM By "sound out" I do mean much less than a perfect rendition - or even probably a good rendition. I mean more like, recognise the letters and know from that what names they are talking about -- or recognise words in dictionary. I know a Greek friend of mine said the same, when he was trying to apply modern pronounciations to ancient Greek words. Although of course, no-one can know ABSOLUTELY for certain how these languages sounded so many years ago. - Chaosopher - 10-07-2006 10:51 PM Apart from English, I speak French, Irish, a little Basque and Spanish, and am now pretty good at Swedish. Would like to learn Dutch at some stage too. RE: Languages and writing systems - Caroline - 12-20-2006 01:14 AM I've always been interested in Languages. I want to learn to speak Spanish Fluently. I would like to learn sign Language, I might learn Latin in the future, i find it very interesting that lots of Languages are based on latin. When I got bored in the toilet when I was a kid.I would read the Labels on Shampoo bottles in the different Languages comparing the words. I like reading anything that has links to English and look for similar words. RE: Languages and writing systems - timhomer2007 - 01-01-2007 09:52 PM Elanivalae Wrote: Is anyone else interested in languages and orthography?  I've loved them both for as long as I can remember (they're almost certainly my most enduring interests).  I created my first personal script in seventh grade and never looked back; I've always been curious as to whether anyone else is inclined to create his or her own writing systems and actually use them frequently.
As far as languages go, I've studied French in the past and am currently seriously studying Japanese and sort of peripherally studying Korean, Russian, Esperanto, and Hindi.  How about you?
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