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      Has anyone else ever tried inventing an own language?

      I am very interested in languages, and I believe the famous fantasy/romance novel writer J.R.R. Tolkien has been my major inspiration for this idea - to create an own language.
      I think this is a very fun and stimulating type of hobby;
      some people might think it is pointless, but I think it is a nice activity in many ways.
      It most certainly has some positive effect on your linguistic skills, since you are supposed to create the foundations for all the grammatical rules, and it also guarantees that you are the only one who will be able to write it, in case you need to write down something but also want to keep it a secret.
      But it is also valuable simply because it can be a lot of fun to mess around with.
      To be honest, I haven't really come that far at all myself yet, but I have made up a few words that I am quite content with - for example, my currect words for the colours "red, yellow, blue, pink" are "ranya, lilya, lunya, ninya".
      I think those words sound quite good, and also convey the "feel" of each colour pretty well.
      The there are a bunch of other random words I have come up with, like "rasto" = "rope", "theio" = "ash", "nando" = "dusk" etc.
      I think this is also almost a little bit like mixing your senses, and trying to sort of give sounds to objects - kind of like synesthesia, I guess.
      If you like languages in general then I would recommend to try doing something like this, it is kind of entertaining and satisfying once you get into it.

      My only issue with my own language so far is that it sounds a little bit too much like Tolkien's language Quenya - but I like the sound of that language, so that's probably good.
      Last edited by Yuusha; 01-20-2015 at 12:46 PM.

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