Re: Non-humanoid langs
| From: | Simon Clarkstone <simon.clarkstone@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 19:25 |
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On 4/25/05, Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
> How many conlangs (including sketches) do we have that are spoken by non-
> humanoids?
[snip]
> So what has everyone made to speak?
I am fiddling around with the grammar of a lang for genetically
engineered, vaguely dragon-like creatures that I will (for want of a
better name) call Kigdatsi. They do not speak per se, but instead
communicate by radio (with "rademes" instead of phonemes). Their
rademes can come in any order, and the language is roughly
standardised, so all the fun is in the grammar (which is giving me
trouble, but is heading toward a cross between Lojban/Loglan, LISP,
Haskell, Relativity, and maths). They can speak human langs with
practice, but are still difficult to understand.
(BTW, their social system is similar to that in _The Skills of Xanadu_
by Theodore Sturgeon.)