Have you ever invented your own languages?

i dont make up my own language but sometimes i want to say something like " i want to go bike riding" and i end up mixing in greek with english and switching words around so it ends up like this, " thelo to go rike biding" ha....yup i'm done.

Yes I did! It was a bit primitive perhaps, and had a large amount of compound words, but it existed. I even made up a world in which they lived, complete with countires, social classes, and ancient histories comprised of the various other attepts I had like this. I also had a 36 character alphabet derived from sign language letters. It was awesome, and I still use it a little, primarily as an ancient or sometimes elven language in my games. Cool thing was, my name (eric) meant "meteor" (eh= up, sky, and such+ rrahk=rock. sky rock= meteor).

I'm going to add to my post in saying that in addition to the 36 letters (about 11 vowels) I had fiddled with a typre of "condensed" writing in which the vowels were paired with consanants to make syllablistic characters.

Just take a look at some newbies around here, they have a lot of languages of their own. :bigsmile:

Yes, Well my friends? They have this language called Bog Language.
It's strange. I was in the city with them before and when they wanted to talk about me (they were girls, i liked one of them) they'd use the language and I'd be like :mad: And it's something to do with "ag" between some letters cause they used to always say "hage" (he) so i knew it was me they were talking about. I just hope it wasn't bad ¬.¬
:p

Yes, but I still don't understand what I'm saying.

Ne Gad, vet ne wrarst ysed to.

Everyone used to do that at school! Well, all the girls did and they thought they were well cool. :bigsmile:

I didn't though. :(

When writing my own stories some of which are fast approaching novel length I have to sometimes come up with languages, I use latin as a huge influence also sometimes greek, russian and norse can come in to it. Other languages are just a major mess about with grammar structure and letter formation.

I also once sat there with 2 friends on a bus just making up a language based on how goldfish open their mouths to breathe in water. This language by the end of our 50 minute journey was completely formed and we could actually understand each other in it to an extent (the rest we guessed at based on body language) sadly I don't speak to either of the people who first made the language now but I have used that language in a very cheesy but successful chat up line (the only one I have used where I have had 100% success rate with it).

The only thing with languages is that you gotta make sure you understand it's grammar structure all to often writers will try making a language only to break the grammar rules of their own language and fall flat on their face when trying to convince the reader it is a language.

I tried to invite a language for a story I was writting. I made the letters and everything, but they were so complex that even I couldn't write them sometimes. xD
I remember some words I invited in it.
Heaven: Horina
Hell: Axelon
Door: Dwesh
And some more, they were for a riddle contained in the story to kill a monster. lol
And yes, it was fun. Good old days.

i make up words and occasionally make up a made up word sentence, but never a language

Why would I invent my own language when there are so many other ones that people actually use? Talk about wasted effort. Pfffffft.

My dad and I use to babble on in strange noises and stuff. Who knows.

Nevaire. ^^

Well I actually did make one but it was just for my book! :p I thought it'd be cool if the characters sometimes started to speak another language so I mixed portuguese, english and german! :D The result is a bit of arabic with japanese! :laughing:

Devising your own cipher is one thing, devising a language is another. They can go hand in hand, but they can be exclusive.

Had I my camera on hand, I could take a picture of a cipher that I made once upon a time. I considered using the scanner to get an example, but I would have to cut things up, and that does not fly with me.