Conlang

>>29578158
Finally, something that's up my alley.
I haven't the first clue of a name, but I imagine its phonology would be that of the standard human vocal range, thus making it speakable by us. I'd imagine an agglutinative, highly descriptive language, with a sampling of cases and tenses. Dialectial variation would most likely be subtle, comparable to say the differences between Pittsburghese and Midwestern American English.
Writing systems are what intrigue me the most, and I'd imagine it to either have a logography based on pictograms or hieroglyphs, or an alphabet/abugida with intricate symbols.

they all have to sound like pony joe because that horse has a boston accent.

>>29578195
I'd like to think the language has a rather low amount of letters/sounds in their alphabet (if they do have an alphabet) though relatively long words too

I agree with abugida

bumping for interest

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>>29578158

>>29578158
I know nothing about actual languages, but am monitoring this thread out of interest.

Some thoughts:

- In addition to modern Equestrian, there may have been tribal variations from the old ways - ranging from dialects to straight up separate languages. I've always presumed modern written Equestrian would use the unicorns' language, but spoken would be more related to Earth Ponies' tongues.

- However, written Equestrian would have slowly trended towards being written with discrete, straight lines and minimizing curls, as it'd make writing the language considerably easier for the two-thirds of the population who have to use their mouths.

- Since ponies are at the very least highly social and at the most herd creatures, I wonder if they have different 'tenses' referring to various groups of ponies. So if you asked where a pony was and were told 'sleeping', there'd be a 'tense' to determine if it's in bed with just nuclear family, crashed with some friends, in a large dormitory, etc.

I wish I paid more attention and didn't forget everything I learned in my linguistics class

Probably something like the language the Houyhnhnm speak in Gulliver's Travels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houyhnhnm
>The name is pronounced either /ˈhuːJnəm/ or /ˈhwJnəm/. (Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.)

Speaking old languages what do you linguists think of: latin, egyptian, (atlantean) and the very very old english pre-Elisabeth era?

>Rape of Aphophis.

bump .

So how do you get started on learning linguistics?

>>29582772
For pre-existing languages, explore their wikipedia pages. You can find a good amount of information on nearly every natural language, and the major conlangs like Esperanto or Interlingua. Zompist.com has some great resources if you want to start building your own language. Be warned - making a whole language is easier said than done!

bumping for interest
again

Who created the Klingon language again?

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