Have you ever invented your own languages?

[Renmiri]

What's the best (quickest) way to decode a language that consists of letter-swaps?

Those are simple substitution cyphers and are easily decoded using the method Holmes use in the mystery of the dancing man.

What would most people make of this childish-looking scrawl ?



Holmes quickly realizes that it is a substitution cipher. Through much brainwork, he cracks the code by frequency analysis.

Frequency analysis is based on the fact that, in any given stretch of written language, certain letters and combinations of letters occur with varying frequencies. Moreover, there is a characteristic distribution of letters that is roughly the same for almost all samples of that language. For instance, given a section of English language, E tends to be very common, while X is very rare. Likewise, ST, NG, TH, and QU are common pairs of letters (termed bigrams or digraphs), while NZ and QJ are rare

Holmes quickly found the little man for "E" since he knew it was a message in english: The symbol who appeared most on the messages was certainly an "E". By the same method he found other vowels and common pairs. Then he filled in the blanks and solved the case

You can do the same, using a frequency analysis software

PS: Another famous substitution cipher is the Al Bhed language

PPS: Create your own substitution cipher or use Al Bhed here

[Khaotic]

Wonder if you made your own language, every word in it as well, letters, everything needed to be legit, and you wanted to make it an official language, would the government laugh at you, or would they make it real? =O

[vorpal blade]

Wonder if you made your own language, every word in it as well, letters, everything needed to be legit, and you wanted to make it an official language, would the government laugh at you, or would they make it real? =O

I think it would be like religion; get ebnough people to speak it, and they probably have to make a law saying that they have to.