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Post by Eliska on Mar 24, 2014 13:12:43 GMT -8
Novilingui is supposed to become the most beautiful language. However, in order to do that, we must understand other beautiful languages. Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, most of us agree that several languages are more beautiful than the rest. As of now I want to use French, Italian, and English influences for Novilingui, but that can change slightly. The purpose of Novilingui is to be a smooth sounding language with a beautiful accent and beautiful words to compliment it. What I consider beautiful will not be the same as what someone else considers beautiful. What I'd like to know is (for what language you pick in the poll), what makes that language beautiful? What makes it stand out above the rest? For me personally, I love the French and Italian languages. I also find Czech to be very nice to listen to. One thing I always find striking are words that end in (a, i, or ei) because those sounds can produce lovely words. I want a sort of beauty and passion to come to someone just from listening to Novilingui. Please share your thoughts with me  |
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Post by Fuun<3 on Mar 25, 2014 9:38:32 GMT -8
May I ask who speaks this (for me unknown) language ? c:
In my opinion are japanese, spanish and english , really beautiful languages. I really want to learn japanese but it's so difficult because of the different alphabet and the kanji and hiragana, but it's sound so nice. :3
xoxo fuun
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Post by Eliska on Mar 25, 2014 14:04:32 GMT -8
As of now, nobody speaks it. I am trying to create it but I cannot create it myself. I would like it to be an international language because its goal is to be learned easily. However, I'm always looking for suggestions and even assistance with Novilingui.
If you are referring to the other languages I wrote, Czech is spoken in the Czech Republic, French in France, Italian in Italy.
I really like Japanese, but yes, the language is very hard to learn. That is the point of the creation of Novilingui though. I want people to be able to speak a beautiful language without so much difficulty in learning it.
Thank you so so much for responding, Fuun!
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Post by Vir on Jun 15, 2014 9:11:47 GMT -8
I once created a language with words like this (because I loved vowels):
a - I
oa - exclusive we
oe - inclusive we
o - thou
i - you
e / ei - it
eie - they
The word endings for I and you were derived from the pronouns:
manta - I eat
manto - you eat
mante - it eats
etc.
The funny part was with some words:
moai - may (auxiliary verb)
He vienno moo? - May you come here?
This way even double vowels were distinguished in this language. The first vowel was always long and the second was always short. Now I'm working on a different language actually, which is to become a very unambiguous language (it has a very advanced grammar of course (I love grammar)).
I love Japanese because it has a consistent grammar and have concepts which have a very basic meaning, and according to me it is the very basic meaning of the words and the consistent grammar (and also the simple sounding syllabic structure) which makes it beautiful:
uma - horse
shimauma - stripe horse (zebra)
sara - plate or whatever you eat on
hako - box, chest
takarabako - treasure chest
But sometimes they don't make some distinctions you take for granted:
yubi - finger or toe
ago - chin or jaw
But I generally don't like the big amount of words borrowed into Japan through Chinese. When you use Chinese words the language changes into a hyper exact language, with more words than what would otherwise have been required. Mixing these with new borrowings from English, I must say this language has a higher amounts of words than a normal language. Sometimes the Chinese expressions in Japanese can be replaced with a Japanese expression:
uma - horse
noru - ride (also used with cars)
jouba suru - noru + uma (to ride a horse) (Chinese Japanese)
uma ni noru - to ride a horse (normal Japanese)
Also it's hard for a non-Japanese to understand the meaning of new words, as Chinese readings have many homophones. And nevertheless, Japanese has the most count of words I've ever seen. In the end I've come to accept that I have to look everything up in a dictionary. And why do some words exist anyway?!
joukyou suru - to go to the capitol (tokyo)
mouko - fierce tiger
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