Building Words in the Complicated Language of Ithkuil
Sam Denby from Half as Interesting, in his distinctively frantic manner, did his very best to explain the grammatical contents of the experimental constructed language of Ithkuil. The language, which was developed by John Quijada, builds words through informationally dense", economical roots. The sounds known as phenomes are added as need. Tone is indicated through which syllable of the word is stressed.
Related PostsScientist Endeavors to Create a Portmanteau Using Every Word in the English LanguageEminem Shows Anderson Cooper the Unique Way He Creates Rhymes for the Word Orange'EasyWrite, An Online Text Editor Encouraging the Use of 1,000 of the Most Common English WordsHow Different Languages Relate to Each Other Through Commonalities, Borrowing and CoincidenceSpeech-Language Pathologist Teaches Her Dog to Communicate Through a Custom Button Talking BoardWords That Aren't Words', An Explanation of Sounds Used to Convey Meaning In Different LanguagesIt's called Ithkuil, and it's a conlang-a non-natural, engineered language-developed by genius-slash-madman-who-stole-a-week-of-my-life John Quijada, and if you want to learn it and have your mind collapse into itself like mine, you can read this comically long online guide. How long is it? Well, I don't know. I tried to find out by pasting it into a word document, but that crashed my computer. Anyways, ironically, Ithkuil is intended to be maximally precise, while using the fewest letters possible.
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