I am working on one main language at the moment (Ebran) and I had started on a smaller language called Dran but stopped. Ebran is used by the population of bounty hunters (they are not evil) on the planet Nevaehmaerd (also called Ebran) I was wondering if you had any tips.
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Artificial languages (eg. Esperanto) are an entirely different matter than natural languages (eg. English).  As someone who has tried and failed to create some, I know.  (And my college education includes computer science and linguistics!)\n\nEnglish, for example, is a horrible example.  It is one of the worst languages in the world because of its idiocyncracies and inconsistencies; English is the strongest in terms of what can be said, but as a language to be learned, it is abominable.  \n\nOne could articulate in a capricious and vicarious manner so as to eschew lucidity in the pursuit of being an interlocutor of interminably obfuscated oratory.  (Or, I could be silly and try to speak so you couldn't understand me.  That's what that previous sentence means.)  As an English speaker, you will be crippled by the way you were taught to speak and think.\n\nThe two best pieces of advice I can give are these:\n\n1. Read about language morphology.  English is subject/verb/object (SVO) while many others have SOV (Chinese, Japanese, Turkish) and less than 1% of languages are OSV or OVS.  Why?  Read about the history and origins of language.  \nAnother good place to study spoken language is to study _computer programming_ languages.  Just because BASIC or C uses English words does not make it an English sub-language.  But the big reason to study computer language creation is *redundancy*: a computer language MUST have only one way to say something, and something said MUST have only one meaning; you or I can understand double entendre, but a computer cannot (eg. "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"; one is a verb, the other is a noun).  Do you want to prevent this in your language?\n\n2. DON'T base your language on English; chances are, all you will end up with is a cypher of English like the cryptograms in the newspaper.  Read and study the grammars of other languages: \n\n- English uses different spellings for number, tense, mood and participle; Altaic languages (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) add suffixes to the same root verb; you learn one conjugation, you know them all.  \n- English puts the adjective before the noun, French after.  English has one gender for objects; French has 2 (le/la), German has 3, and some African languages as many as 8.  \n- English has one word for groups, "they"; French uses "they (male)" for male and mixed groups, "they (female)" for females only.  Tagalog (the Philippines) has a unique combinatory pronoun for each mixed group: I+you, I+he, you+she, etc. but not for gender.  Why?\n- Some languages agglutinate: in Finnish, you can replace an entire English sentence with one word by adding the right prefixes and suffixes.  \n- Or the number of parts of speech: a thousand years ago, English had but two, nouns and verbs, and was an agglutinating language; it was the Norse invasions that added adj/adv/prep to this language.  Try reading Chaucer in his original text and "old English" from 1000 CE to see what I mean.\n\nOnce you understand *why* these things are done and what benefits and problems they add to language, you can begin to create your own.  One of the most creative ideas I have read for an artificial language is called "Romanova", a mixing of the various Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian) with simplified spellings and standardized parts of speech (all nouns end in the same letter, for example).  Its inventor intended it as a hybrid to permit learning one language to communicate effectively in all the countries mentioned.\n\nHere are a few links to get started:\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bartificial+%2Blanguages&btnG=Google+Search\nhttp://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/artlang.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_language\nhttp://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html\nhttp://www.langmaker.com/\nhttp://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/lang/index.html\nhttp://www.faqs.org/faqs/la
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I'm Italian, I traveled in Spain and Portugal and had no serious problems in communicating with people using our own languages. It's kind of funny, but it's not that straightforward as it seems. On the opposite, it can be very misleading sometimes. When details are important, such as in job meetings, I always switch to English.\nI have worked also with Danish people, they told me that  Swedish, Danish and Norwegian can understand each other even more easily, as they were the same nation until a few centuries ago.\nThese Danish guys were also able to read Dutch newspapers (but not to understand the Dutch pronounce).
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My husband and I have some interest in this area also.  WE have used the attached website to find translations of phrases and words.  Like you we have not found the software helpful.  WE think the best way is to find a real life person who speaks Irish Gaelic or to do one of the summer programs offered at some Irish colleges.  Living with a family that speaks Gaelic would be an added bonus if you could do that.  We use the beginners guide to help us learn a bit independently, but we  haven't yet found a way that suits us to learn Irish Gaelic.  If all goes well maybe a trip to Ireland someday. \n\nYou probably know about the websites I've included, but just in case you don't here they are.\n\nIs leor nod don eolach - A hint is sifficient for the wise.\n\nGood luck with it!
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Do you mean to ask if Yahoo Answers is based on international languages? No, it's not. It's supposed to be an English language forum, although questions about other languages asked in English (for example, "How do you say "hello" in French?" Answer: "Bonjour" or "Salut") are fine. If you're interested in asking or answering questions in another language, however, it's possible that there's another forum for that language. For example, you can find the French language Yahoo Answers forum at http://fr.answers.yahoo.com.
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I love other languages.  All of them, really.  I like to hear them spoken in groups.  It flows so naturally, as though you should understand every word, but you don't.  I tried to speak German while living abroad, but I was with many americans and we'd only speak German when we were drunk and in class.  I was lucky - I could speak it more than most.
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There's no such language called 'Iranian.' The Iranians speak Farsi. I do not know which language you should pick. I think the code makers of old based a code on the Navaho language that could not be broken by the enemy, but I'm not sure. I think Math is something you will have to know something of too, to go into that field. Ask the Air Force people who work in this area what you should study.
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I found this answer at the website below....I hope this helps....it certainly suprised me!\n\nLinguists estimate that there are anywhere from 4,000 to more than 10,000 distinct languages still spoken! Many linguists give a figure of 6,000-7,000, more or less following the lead of the reference work: (Ethnologue languages of the world).  The 14th edition came out in November 2000.\n\nHowever, many Sign languages (see entry SIGN LANGUAGES) have been omitted from these counts (the Ethnologue lists 103) — ((see the 2nd link below)).\n\nSo, the actual number of languages is much larger and could even be twice that high! \n\nWOW!\n:)\nPeace
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I agree with Sue.\n\nGone Car - Please take note, all the people answering here speak English (presumably as their primary language) yet you got almost as many different answers as there were people answering. What does that tell you? It tells me that in the final analysis people make language, not the other way around. There will always be rules and those who always observe them. But most of us are too busy trying to communicate with one another to pay very much attention to all those rules. And yet, somehow, we do generally manage to make ourselves understood, one to another.\n\nI'm not telling you to ignore the rules. Learn them, certainly. But if you wish to become truly proficient in speaking English, at some point you will have to go beyond those textbook rules. It is in the real world that language lives and thrives.
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Aw, so you're that Brian Kernighan, born in 1942, with the following adress:\n\n    600 Mountain Avenue \n    Room 2C-514 \n    Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636, USA\n\nand e-mail:\n\n    bwk @ research.bell-labs.com\n\nThis might look familiar to you:\n\n main( ) {\n   extrn a, b, c;\n   putchar(a); putchar(b); putchar(c); putchar('!*n');\n }\n a 'hell';\n b 'o, w';\n c 'orld';\n\nprint "Hello, world!"\n\nYep, it's that ancient B Language. What is up with the JavaScript thing?\n\nWell, that beeing said, hello dude to you too.\n\nBy the way, have you shaved recently? That beard makes you look so old in those pictures you posted on your web-site.
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It's Swedish: there is (was?) no new topic in this forum last month.\n\nHow bizarre! I wonder why you are getting emails in Swedish...
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Like anything else to do with politics, it's a matter of a constituency for something being of sufficient size to push it through.  Unfortunately for Esperanto, it lacks a "natural constituency" in terms of some geographic area with large numbers of native speakers.  The UN is only going to adopt languages in recognition of how many speakers they already have.  It is not going to adopt a language with a small number of speakers for purpose of deliberately "promoting" it... no matter how good the intentions are behind that language.\n\nAt the same time though, I would take issue with other people saying that Esperanto "isn't a real language" and that it "never caught on".  Esperanto is used people from over a hundred countries to communicate... it may be a constructed language, but it's still a "real language" any way you want to look at it.  It has also survived and thrived for over a hundred years... even if it hasn't lived up to lofty aspirations of everyone on the planet using the language, you certainly can't say that it "hasn't caught on".\n\nLinux is used on less that 1% of the world's computers, yet it has been a great benefit and use to a thriving community of worldwide computer users.  Is Linux "not a real operating system", or "hasn't caught on", just because it probably won't live up to unreasonable expectations of everyone giving up Microsoft Windows?
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I practise another artificial language: Ido or Idolinguo and I would use it for private conversation, if I had someone to do so with.\n\nBTW, NOT all languages are artificial. English, Spanish and the like were not constructed in a lab (or on a desk). They evolved NATURALLY from scratch, or from a preceding language (e.g.: Spanish evolved from Latin).\n\nIf you are interested in Ido, check this out:
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It is your web site and there you are "The Baldchemist" too :-) very interesting. however with help or not, in 200 years every one will be talking English in forms of:\n\nu K? how r u? and our English will be the ' old'  english.. everything has evolution. But come on. My English is not my first language and I need to add something: this must be the only language in the world that you:\n\n1. speak differently\n2. write differently\n3. prenounce differenly\n4. think differently\n\nit has so many sillent 'letters' or rules "i before c expapt before .. ".. change would be good  :-)  but please.. no more changes for me, it is hard enough for me already!!\n\nAnd just remember.. long ago we only had ONE LANGUAGE.. maybe we going back?\n\nHi There.. Good morning. (we have here 9am)\n \nI like your page so much so I decided to see what else you have asked (by clicking you face) and picked yet another site for everyone to visit:\n\nhttp://love-lust-n-life.blogspot.com/\n\nI can see you very deep in your thoughts. It is great. But not all man actually deep in their thoughts, a beer and soccer will do... \n\nAs I cant answer under other question (tan out of the limit, level 1) I must add that the man who has very low self esteem prefer the 'bimbos' as then they will always look more intelligent and feel good when their friends drop their month. The same man will never go out with an intellectual woman as it will threaten him every second that everyone gives her time for the wrong reasons.\n\nI will keep going to your www, fun to read.
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These languages are used to write programs.\n\nas u might already know they are the programming laguages\n\nC is a structured programming language\nand\nC++ is a Object Oriented Programming Language\n\nand these are quite powerful languages.\n\ncoz u mght have heard the name of a Operating sysem named "UNIX".\nwell do u know that, this "UNIX" was made in "C".\n80% of the operating system was made in "C", so now u can think of the power of the languages.\nand these languages are the easiest to learn.\nhowever as u keep learning they become complex and harder.\nhowever "C" is my faviourite programming languages and this was the first language i learnt.
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Hey Bhaiya (Brother), Yahoo! has some community guidelines.\nIn fact, I'd love to use my language too. But we are not Gulam. \n\n\n\nGood question.\n\n--- LeeeN
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I have a friend in Denmark,and she has tried teaching me a little Danish.She has also made the remark that the Danish language is one of this hardest to teach/learn.I would start with visiting the libary or maybe taking a class in your city.
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The website called bable fish its NOT acurate !!!\n\nI am Dutch and the above is a mess.......... ;-)\n\n\nTranslation:\n\nHave you settled in your new house? Too bad, I have, nice appartment. Dave is doing fine, we talk quite a lot, I do miss him and maybe we will get together again but need to find my peace first. I think it's too bad that he thinks I have already found some one. Ah well, I know better. And you and Mararteen? Will you soon come and see me? Let me know! When will you fly again?\n\n(I think the name Mararten is a misspelling of the Dutch name Maarten)