Re: Non-humanoid langs

I've got the beginnings of a phonology of a language spoken by amphibian
aliens - it uses a lot of clicks and whistles a la the cetaceans.

Sorry I can't be more specific - I haven't worked on it for ages.

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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