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What Does Your Language Look Like?
Posted On: 23 Nov 2024, 02:41 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
Perhaps one of the most important aspects of an artistic language is how it is written. There are generally two levels to this aspect: phonetic transliteration and graphemic construction. Of the two, only one of these is vital to the process of creating a language. However, neither one of these can exist until one knows what the language sounds like.
The most fundamental part of creating a language is deciding on the way it sounds. This is often achieved through the selection of its represent
Read more...What are those characters in the ALCA logo?
Posted On: 29 Sep 2024, 08:35 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
The logo for this group features letters of six artistic languages. These are artistic languages that I have a decent familiarity with.
The top letter is from the Aurebesh alphabet featured in Star Wars. Unlike the other languages, Aurebesh is not a true constructed language but what is known as a "cypher" language, which is a visual language that replaces a language's alphabet with different characters to give the appearance of a different language. Why included it anyway? Because
Read more...What is an "artistic language"?
Posted On: 29 Sep 2024, 08:01 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
An artistic language is a constructed language that serves an artistic purpose. Such a language is made to simply be, not like auxiliary languages meant to foster international communication or engineered languages which are used academically to experiment with language use and logical function.
The first known artistic language is "Utopian", featured in the Latin satire book Utopia by Thomas More with Peter Giles in 1516. It featured as an addendum at the end of the book. It was writt
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