Re: Are conlangs fictional?

Nik Taylor writes:
 > Andreas Johansson wrote:
 > > In plenty of SF/F books, the characters are supposedly speaking another
 > > language than that the book is written in. Yet, all that exists of these
 > > languages is very commonly a number of more or less systematically formed
 > > names. This is what I'd call a "fictional language".
 >
 > Or even less than that, they say they speak in, say, "Galactic" but
 > never give a single word in this language, and the names are often
 > modern Earth names or slight modifications thereof.  That's about as
 > fictional as you can get.
 >
 > BTW, did Tolkien ever actually invent Westron?
 >
As I understand it, only to a very limited extent.  What is known
about the language is listed here:

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/westron.htm

Essentially, a few words are known, and certain things can be deduced
about others.  A lot of them are related to the untranslated names of
various hobbits.