Re: Non-humanoid langs

If you look at the "West of Eden" stories of Harry Harrison, you'll find the
Yilane with their language - they're a sentient post-maritme form of monitor
lizard.  And then there is the unspeakable utterances of Cthulhu and crew in
Lovecraft ... ia, ia, ia, ftagn!

Wesley Parish

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:57, Geoff Horswood wrote:
> I was wondering the other day, so I thought I'd ask:
>
> How many conlangs (including sketches) do we have that are spoken by non-
> humanoids?
>
> There's my alien elephant conlang sketch (currently shelved), and someone
> mentioned one spoken by crocodiles a while back, and you _might_ class
> Entish in this category if you wanted, though I was really thinking of
> totally non-humanoids.  What else do we have that speaks?
>
> Then there are all of the humanoid alien langs, from Klingon to Quenya via
> Silindion and Noygwexaal, and then all the human langs (including those
> that sort-of-aren't-human-but-might-as-well-be: "humans" from parallel
> earths/Ferochromon/other strange universes)
>
> So what has everyone made to speak?
>
> Geoff
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