My dream constructed language

While being frustrated with the difficulty of learning Japanese, I came with a random thought. Looking quickly through the list of constructed languages at wikipedia, I couldn’t help but notice that most of them are based on the latin alphabet. This.. is.. boring.. You could do better than that!

You know what would be REALLY interesting? A language that would have the following features:

a) The pronunciation of the Japanese language. About 110 different sounds only and it sounds so cute ;) Compare that to 8000 sounds of the English language.

Image credit: Human Japanese

b) A writing system using simple/quick to write and needing minimal space syllabary symbols, like the ones in the Korean alphabet or Katakana.

Image credit: Wikipedia

c) A consistent and simple grammar system without all those exceptions to the rules that we hate.

Now, that would be a fun language to create, learn and speak. Is it possible? It might even exist already? I don’t know. I don’t even have any idea what I’m just talking about.. :) I can barely speak my own native language correctly. But it’s an interesting though, don’t you think?

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2 Responses to My dream constructed language

  1. I did made my dream language, Kumiko, and it has the following features:
    – a featural abugida, except one block can contain 2 syllables
    – a logical grammar
    – a marker system
    – 400 syllabic sounds

    alphabets
    http://vvcap.net/db/h6DVFTBhSZzOJb34mTZO.png
    examples
    http://vvcap.net/db/MSZLDsD6uoqGDwpilBw1.png

    (computer-generated, doesn’t look so good)

    the bad things are, it got surprising and mind-bending features and 3 retroflex consonants
    http://shinkirou.org/kumiko/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

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