Creating Languages. From Esperanto to Dothraki
Alexander Piperski
Why do people create their own new languages — conlangs, when there are 7,000 natural languages in the world? What types of artificial languages are there? How are they similar to the natural languages and how do they differ? What are their perspectives in the modern world?
Alexander Piperski, the author of the book Creating Languages. From Esperanto to Dothraki explains, that people create new languages because of numerous reasons: they want to achieve a logical ideal, to better understand each other, or they just want to give aesthetic pleasure to themselves as well as to others. Behind each artificial language there are fascinating personalities and dramatic stories about success and failure.
Esperanto, Solresol, Ro, transcendental algebra, Quenya, Blissymbolics, Paleneo, Na’vi, Dothraki – these are just a few examples of languages, which are discussed in the book from a linguistic as well as historical point of view.
Moscow: Alpina non-fiction, 2017
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