Re: Non-humanoid langs

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?
You have to go back to some of my really old language sketches. I had
one called Zosidaxikáinur, which was spoken by a kind of six-legged
insect-like dragon. But it might as well have been a human language; it
was entirely speakable by humans. Realism wasn't really one of my goals
back then, but I should have known better than that. Certain kinds of
dragons communicated by writing in a language called Käläthsithäthe, and
the winged cats of the same world had their own written language called
Ipsílikhthar; both of these languages also happened to be speakable by
humans. I had the idea once for a musical language spoken by a kind of
tree, but I never developed that idea into an actual language. Most of
my other languages are for humans or humanoids. The dragons in my
current world are non-speaking animals, and I don't think there are such
things as flying cats anywhere (except in imaginative Zireen stories).