I write science fiction that includes friendly intelligent extraterrestrials and deals a lot with first contacts.\u00a0 When humans meet an off-world race for the first time, the two sides can’t possibly speak the same language.\u00a0 Therefore, the author needs to construct a language for the ET species to speak.\u00a0 That’s what a conlang is – a constructed language.<\/p>\n
In my novel entitled “The Termite Queen,” I have four species of intelligent off-worlders – termites, birds,\u00a0lemuriforms, and monotremes (egg-laying mammals).\u00a0 I’ve\u00a0tinkered with languages for all of them, but\u00a0I have\u00a0done extensive work on only two: Shshi (the Termite language) and !Ka<t\u00e1 (one of three Bird languages.\u00a0 I’ll begin with discussions of those and later I’ll proceed to talk of the others.<\/p>\n
So for now let me say Welcome!\u00a0 In Shshi that’s \u00a1evo|! || <\/em>and in !Ka<t\u00e1 the phrase is <Khe\u2019\u00f3\u2191 awrr\u00e1<\u2191~]<\/em><\/p>\n There is only a little here to read yet, but stay tuned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I write science fiction that includes friendly intelligent extraterrestrials and deals a lot with first contacts.\u00a0 When humans meet an off-world race for the first time, the two sides can’t possibly speak the same language.\u00a0 Therefore, the author needs to construct a language for the ET species to speak.\u00a0 That’s what a conlang is – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/remembrancer.conlang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}