The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
11. What is an Artificial Language?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
Christopher Moseley [+]
Independent scholar
Christopher Moseley is a university lecturer, writer and freelance translator, editor of the Encyclopedia of the World’s Endangered Languages (2006) and the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger (2009), as well as co-editor of the Atlas of the World’s Languages (1993). He has a special interest in artificial languages (and has created one himself).
Description
How and why do people invent languages? This chapter discusses fictional languages—such as Klingon and Dothraki—as well as attempts made at an international language, like Esperanto.