Re: Non-humanoid langs

Hallo!

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:25:52 +0100,
Simon Clarkstone <simon.clarkstone@...> wrote:

> On 4/25/05, Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
> > How many conlangs (including sketches) do we have that are spoken by non-
> > humanoids?
Not me, at least not so far.  I haven't yet seriously attempted any
language spoken by non-human beings.

> [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.
Now that seems like an interestingly bizarre project.  Are you trying
to beat Ithkuil and Qthyn|gai out of the field?

Greetings,

Jörg.

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