Conlanging

I dreamt this early morning about conlanging, specifically modifying Esperanto, so that I would replace the letter J with the letter Î, and I would add Japanese vocables. My cousin Eileen was in the dream, and she thought that I should not pursue the project.

"David, one of my hobbies is conlanging." "Robert, what's a 'conlang'?" "It's an artificial language." "You mean like C++ for programming?" "It's not intended for computers, but for people, though."

I started conlanging as a prepubescent with words like "múninghay," "brábintai," and "numnumbúbit," which respectively related to the full moon, dragonflies, and drinking vitamins.

Learning Chavacano and maybe other creoles could revitalize my interest in conlanging, even if just in my head. Chavacano is interesting to me because it is a Latinate creole, Spanish-based, with an indigenous Philippine substratum. Convenient in creoles is the absence of complex verbal conjugations. Markers or particles indicate verbal aspects. Creole is like a quaint fantasy.

It is the 2nd of March of 2015. One conlanging idea about which I recently ponder is Japanese written in a Hispanic manner, as if it were Spanish, similar in the way the Mexican Amerindian language Classical Nahuatl is written. As an example is "Caquigoori ga suqui da queredomo, ima hua tabemasen": "Although I like shave ice dessert, I am not eating now."

Jack said he likes conlanging.

The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.

The personalization of language allowed by conlanging is what draws many conlangers to the hobby.

Should that be a factor in determining whether conlanging is an art form or some other kind of practice?

This period also saw the further development of conlanging as an art form, most notably by JRR Tolkien, setting the stage for the current era of conlanging, discussed in Section 2.5, where conlanging's status as art and even as a profession has been solidified.