10 fictional languages you can learn

"Kolik jazyku znas, tolikrat jsi clovekem." ("Having learned a new language, you live another life. If you know only one language, you have lived only once" (Czech proverb))

Learning a new language is hard work that takes a lot of time and effort. The only way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it. While there are many real languages to communicate with each other, that doesn't stop some geeks from broadening their horizons by learning non-existent languages to imitate the heroes they love or piss off normal people. This list contains some of the most exciting fictional languages you can actually learn.

10. Nadsat

In his 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess created a slang language called Nadsat. It is a mixture of modified Slavic and Russian languages, as well as just words invented by the author. Nadsat is based on English with some transliterated Russian words. It also contains influences from the Cockney (London vernacular) and the King James Bible, some words of unknown origin, and some invented by Burgess himself.

Words like droog, which means friend, or Bog, meaning God, are still used from time to time by college students to infuriate or confuse those around them. Nadsat's extensive dictionary contains a list of terms used in the book and their sources.

9. Purseltang

The best children's book of this decade is the Harry Potter series. All readers of this series have definitely heard of Purcellang. This is a serpentine language and everyone who knows how to speak it is called snakemouth. For most, it is associated with dark magic, and the ability to speak it is very rare. For those who do not know the language, it sounds like a set of hissing sounds, but snaketongues hear it like their own.

Finding a place where they really learn this language is quite difficult. There are also legends that this ability can be inherited and therefore is present in the genes. However, Purseltang can be learned, but while other languages have dictionaries, this one only has an online translator from English.

8. Atlantean

The Atlantean language was invented for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost World. It was envisaged that it would be the language of the indigenous people. It contains words of Indo-European origin and its own grammar.

The Atlantean Language (Dig Adlantisag) is a historically constructed, artistic language invented in 2001 by Mark Okrand for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost World and related projects. The Atlantean language is based on both historical transformations or real events, as well as complexly constructed fantasy / science fiction myths "Atlantis: The Lost World". Here is the fictitious basis on which the Atlantic language was invented: Atlantean - "The Tower of the Biblical Language", the "root dialect" from which all other languages are derived. It existed in its original form some time later, 100,000 years BC, during the First or Second Age of Atlantis to the present day. Surprisingly, this language has its own vocabulary and can be studied at the Atlantic Language Institute.

7. Navi

Navi is the invented language spoken by the fictional native race (Navi) on Pandora in James Cameron's 2009 film Avatar. The language was invented by Paul Fromer, a professor at the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in linguistics. Navi was designed to fit James Cameron's concept of how language should sound in a film to make it realistic for human characters to learn it. It was also supposed to be pronounced for the actors, but not too similar to any existing language.

After the release of the film in 2009, Navi gained a vocabulary of more than a thousand words, but understanding his grammar was available only to the filmmakers. Since April 2010, there has been an ever-growing community of Navi fans. There are sites that contain vocabulary, basic learning materials, and discussion forums.

6. Aklo

Aklo is a secret language, possibly a contrived cipher or speech used by a non-human race, that is associated with the writing of forbidden texts and devil cults. Aklo was coined by Arthur Machen in his 1899 short story White People. It was later used in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, who was a great admirer of Machen's work, and is found in the Dunwich Horror and Dweller in the Dark stories of Cthulhu myths.

Aklo is not only an alien language, but also a key that opens the door to the human mind. Aklo's version of Alan Mora contains certain trigger words, pronouncing which in the correct order while the listener is in a different state of mind, usually under the influence of drugs, can achieve a deep and lasting effect on a person.

There are a number of sites that you can use to learn Aklo. Since it is used not very widely and only by a number of actors, vocabulary and grammar do not exist, and it remains unclear which languages had the most influence in the creation of Aklo.

5. Simlish

Simlish is a fictional language known from EA Games' Sim series of games. He first appears in SimCopter, and gained fame after playing The Sims. Game developers have created a unique Simlish language by experimenting with words from Ukrainian, French, Latin, Finnish, English and Tagalog.

There is a website that you can use to learn how to speak and write in Simlish, which is a combination of Windings and zodiac symbols and is not based on actual grammar in any way. All other games created by the inventor of the Sims genre, Will Wright, use Simlish as their language.

4. Newspeak

Newspeak is a fictional language in George Ourell's 1984 novel. Ourell's novel describes it as "the only language in the world whose vocabulary is getting smaller every year." Ourwell has included an essay about him as an appendix to the main book, which explains the basics of the language. Newspeak root words are both nouns and verbs, allowing for further reductions in the total number of words. Newspeak is closely related to English. Newspeak's term for English is Oldspeak. Thanks to Newspeak, Starspeak was supposed to disappear completely by 2050.
Possibly the easiest fictional language to learn, the geeks created Vikvar (Newspeak's vocabulary) and Amazon provides books for those eager to learn it.

3. Klingon

Klingon is the language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Startrack universe. Deliberately designed by Mark Okrand as an "alien", it has many unusual features. The basic sound of the language, along with a few words, was first developed by actor James Dogan for Startrack: The Motion Picture. Its vocabulary, which focuses on the concept of a Star Trek such as spaceship or war, makes it difficult to use in everyday life. Klingon was consistently created by Okrand as a completely independent language.

Over the years, it was developed so well that the Klingon Language Institute in Pennsylvania, USA was created, where a seminar is held every year to provide a platform for newbies to learn the language and for excited fans to discuss, making them (no offense) the most avid nerds.

2. Esperanto

Esperanto deserves to be called one of the most successfully constructed languages in history. This language has the strangest pronunciation of all invented languages.It was invented by a man, Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenchow in the 1880s, and is now accepted by the world as an existing language. The word "Esperanto" in its own language means "one who hopes." Today, it is estimated that there are 100,000 to 2 million people fluent in the language and 200 to 2,000 native speakers.

Esperanto is also the language of instruction at one university, Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj in San Marino. There is evidence that learning Esperanto can be a good base for learning languages in general. His vocabulary derives mainly from the Romance and, to a lesser extent, the Germanic language group. Esperanto is so easy to learn that many people know it and can be found on Google through the Esperanto portal.

1. Elvish and the Arda language

And of course we couldn't forget the Elvish one - the inspiration for this article. D.R.R. Tolkien created many languages as part of his own mythology, perfected by individual races. This language is found in the legendary "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". His interest was primarily philological, and he said that his stories grew out of his languages. Languages became the first things Tolkien created for his myths, beginning with "Kiyenya", the first primitive form of Elvish. It was later named Quenya (High Speech) and is one of Tolkien's two most difficult languages (the other is Sindarin, or Gray Speech). The pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar of Quenyi and Sindarin are inspired by the Finnish and Welsh languages. In addition to these two, he also created several other languages, but Tolkien Elvish is a completely self-contained language.

I will definitely admit that his vast invention, built from the ground up, is a really beautiful-sounding language. And many more people think so. Therefore, there are books on Amazon for learning the grammar and syntax of the language, as well as an English to Elvish translation dictionary for those who seriously want to learn it.