Artistic Language Spotlight: Utopian

Posted On: 23 Dec 2024, 06:01 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination

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Utopian is the language of the fictional land of Utopia. It was described in Sir Thomas More’s socio-political satire novel Utopia (rendered under the original Latin title Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam Festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, which translates to “A truly golden little book, no less beneficial than entertaining, of a republic’s best state and of the new island Utopia” … you know… just to let you know

Translation is the Key

Posted On: 12 Dec 2024, 06:09 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination

When building a constructed language, one of its largest and longest drawn-out elements is developing a vocabulary. No matter what kind of language you’re trying to build, one of the most difficult parts is actually coming up with an inventory of words. And, quite simply, sitting down with a dictionary is not the best way to go about it. Thinking you're going to translate a whole dictionary ignores that you are trying to create a language from a unique culture, forcing you to have to think ab

What Does Your Language Look Like?

Posted On: 23 Nov 2024, 02:41 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of an artistic language is how it is written. There are generally two levels to this aspect: phonetic transliteration and graphemic construction. Of the two, only one of these is vital to the process of creating a language. However, neither one of these can exist until one knows what the language sounds like.

The most fundamental part of creating a language is deciding on the way it sounds. This is often achieved through the selection of its represent

What are those characters in the ALCA logo?

Posted On: 29 Sep 2024, 08:35 PM
Posted By: fragmented_imagination

The logo for this group features letters of six artistic languages. These are artistic languages that I have a decent familiarity with.

The top letter is from the Aurebesh alphabet featured in Star Wars. Unlike the other languages, Aurebesh is not a true constructed language but what is known as a "cypher" language, which is a visual language that replaces a language's alphabet with different characters to give the appearance of a different language. Why included it anyway? Because