https://conlang.fandom.com/wiki/Tora

https://www.deviantart.com/meztli72/journal/My-artificial-language-created-by-me-Juny-Upd-1062048318

Description extracted from official sources:

Tora ("tiger" (虎) in Japanese) or Tora-go (虎語) (also coloquially known as "Elvish Japanese" = kuendennä nihongo = KUENDEゃ日本語) is an artificial language by me (Meztli72), created in February 2024, as a parody of the Japanese language where most vocabulary comes from Quenya, another artificial language created by the writer J.R.R. Tolkien. It's spoken at Elvish City, a super giant futuristic mega city the size of a small country!

Samples and more info (incomplete) is located at this gallery:

https://www.deviantart.com/meztli72/gallery/91762181/my-tora-language

So basically, this ''conlang'' (constructed language) is a sort of Elvish-style Japanese ''creole''.

It can be written using any phonetical writing system. I invented the following: ''Tora hiragana'' and ''Tora katakana'', a Japanese-like system which resembles a lot real Japanese script. Besides, it uses kanji. It can be written using Tolkien's ''Tengwar'' script but in my own invented style called the ''Tora mode''. In the future, I will add Tolkien's ''Sarati'' script for further sample texts.

I will truly appreciate comments, suggestions and feedback!!! :)

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Some sample words:

tree = alda = 木

island = töl, shima = 島 (yes, some words have more than a form)

internet = räima = 網, RAIMA (capitals mean that it has to be written using ''Tora katakana'')

car = nolorë = 車

(electric) train = densha = 電車

subway, underground, metro = kemenuanga = 地下鉄

please = ekenin, kudasai = ekenin, kudasai (non-capitals mean that it has to be written using ''Tora hiragana'')

drawing, painting = ë = 絵

you = lie = 你

elf = kuende = KUENDE

one = mini, hi = 一

two = atani, fu = 二

three = sandë, mi (nelde in compounds) = 三

book = parimä (parma in compounds) = 本

water = nen = 水

star = elen = 星

dragon = löke = 龍, 龙, LOーKE

horse = rokko = 馬

yes = hai = hai

no = lä = laー

People who can create constructed languages fascinate me with it. It's quite a feat to create one's own language.

-- BK

I can barely wrap my head around existing languages, but @fragmented_imagination does conlangs so there are kindred spirits lurking about. ;3

I'm so glad because what you said. I feel the same way, I usually check out "Conlang Wiki" for cool language experiments. I Loved such stuff (and others) since my childhood (the 80s years). So glad, even if my language is too simple (uses English grammar as basis, no genders, no conjugation, etc.). But beware: there's some complexity as well: special grammatical features (for resembling Japanese structures, special particles for special tenses, etc.), some special specific fixed phrases (some of them based on Quenya equivalents, others from Japanese, others from several languages at the same time, most adverbial phrases), a lot of non-regularities because all words have to be memorized and the use of umlaut (¨) is not regular, but based mainly on stress and fitting to resemble the main base languages (Quenya and Japanese). Besides every word has three versions to be memorized to avoid confusion:

1) Latin script version, usually written in bold letters in my own descriptions for clarity;

2) Kanji and Latin script "Tora kana" transcription (as basis for using any phonetical language, with or without kanji replacement with that);

3) Additional Latin script transcription in special cases, for example, to specify that the Latin transcription and the "Tora kana" one has to be written in Tora katakana for some Chinese-origin readings.

Examples:

ruined, damaged, corrupted: rükina = 形無na (the "na" in non-capitals mean that it has to be written in Tora hiragana)

spark plug(s): tinwepuragu = 点火PURAGU (the "PURAGU" in capitals mean that it has to be written in Tora katakana)

trolley bus: ostodenpanta = OSTODENPANTA (capitals means Tora katakana, no kanji here to resemble the Japanese equivalent)

Chongqing: yukë, chonchin = 重慶 <市 = "shi", CHONCHIN> <--- it means that the kanji 市, when appended, has to be pronounced as "shi" and not the Tora standard "osto", also the "CHONCHIN" part means that if we add, for example, furigana to this word, it has to be written in Tora katakana because one of the rules of this language is that Chinese transliterations for names of places, etc. have to be written that way just like Japanese people does. The same with Korean-origin readings. All special rules for a particular entry are written inside <>s.

Pronunciation has to be memorized even if rules are simple, because some Quenya-origin words feature the Japanese-like phenomenon of muting U vowel: as example: to give = änuta = 与 is pronounced as "änta" (stress at the umlaut). There are some special exceptions to the standard stress rules (ex. please (informal) = ekenin = ekenin is pronounced as Ekenin with stress at the first E. Almost all Japanese-origin words are pronounced with the same Japanese stress structure. More details at my Tora page at Conlang Wiki). 😊

His/her work with conlangs is awesome!! :)