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ALCA Journal
Posted On: 10 Jan 2025, 11:59 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
Since I have indicated a dedication to post journals in languages other than English, the journal for this group is going to become very messy. In the interests of keeping things tidy, I will be repeatedly re-posting this entry for not only the journals in English, but adding the journals in other languages instead of forcing members to go through a messy list looking for something of interest. Thus, this post will always be on the group homepage.
Artistic Language Spotlight: Utopian Read more...
¿Qué son los caracteres en el logo de ALCA?
Posted On: 10 Jan 2025, 11:51 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
El logo de este grupo tiene letras de seis lenguas artísticas. Yo estoy familiarizado por lo menos con estas lenguas.
La letra de arriba es del alfabeto “aurebesh” que aparece en Star Wars. A diferencia de los otros idiomas, el aurebesh no es una lengua artística verdadera, pero es una lengua cifrada, que es una lengua visual que sustituye el alfabeto de un idioma con caracteres diferente por darle una apariencia como un otro idioma. ¿Por qué se incluye aún así? Porque Star
Read more...¿Qué es una “lengua artística”?
Posted On: 10 Jan 2025, 03:05 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
Una lengua artística o lengua alternative es un idioma artificial que sirve para un propósito artístico. Un idioma como este es hecho solo existir, no usar como una lengua auxiliar que se intenta ayudar a comunicación internacional o como una lengua experimental que es usada académicamente para experimentar con utilización de idioma y funciones lógicas.
La lengua artística primera que es identificada llama “Utopian”, que es usada en el libro satírico latino de Utopia escrito po
Read more...Artistic Language Spotlight: Utopian
Posted On: 23 Dec 2024, 06:01 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
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Utopian is the language of the fictional land of Utopia. It was described in Sir Thomas More’s socio-political satire novel Utopia (rendered under the original Latin title Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam Festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, which translates to “A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining, of a republic’s best state and of the new island Utopia” … you know… just to let you know
Read more...Translation is the Key
Posted On: 12 Dec 2024, 06:09 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination
When building a constructed language, one of its largest and longest drawn-out elements is developing a vocabulary. No matter what kind of language you’re trying to build, one of the most difficult parts is actually coming up with an inventory of words. And, quite simply, sitting down with a dictionary is not the best way to go about it. Thinking you're going to translate a whole dictionary ignores that you are trying to create a language from a unique culture, forcing you to have to think ab
Read more...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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