Constructed Languages

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Welcome to [email protected]! This community is geared towards people who seek to discuss artificial languages or create and showcase their own.

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Has conlanging ever helped you understand and learn real languages better? (discuss.online)

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For me, yes, an example I could use is transforming a generic language using an alphabet, formed using Turkish as the base, and evolving it based on Chinese influences and attempting to adopt logographic styles

This made me theorise on how Chinese works and the absolute role of context, where I could apply it and what not

But what about you?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I would say that 70-80% of what I know about linguistics comes from conlanging. Sure, the basics come up in school, both in literature and foreign language classes but there they are muddied by all the exceptions that real life languages have. In conlanging, we can apply linguistic concepts in their pure form and experiment with them.