I thought this was related to compilers, probably ocaml lisp or something.
Me too, the possibly of another resource like the excellent series "Let's Build a Compiler" by Jack Crenshaw[1] would be nice.
The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
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Re: The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
#12Fascinating! Could this be used to create something like Klingon or Belter Creole?
Re: The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
#13One of my favorite single pages on the web is this author’s take on what it would look like if English were spelled with characters inspired by (but not copied from) Chinese hanzi. He calls it yingzi (“English writing” in Chinese) but it's designed entirely for English. The point of the page is not to create a new writing system (it doesn't go nearly that far) but simply to give an impression of what Chinese writing…
Cockney rhyming slang as one of the pillars for an English writing system. This is fascinating in so many ways.
Re: The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
#14Fascinating! Could this be used to create something like Klingon or Belter Creole?
You bet.
Re: The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
#15Zompist is great. I also tried making an auxlang at one point. This is actually what got me into programming. I was saddened by Esperanto's Euro-centric phonetic inventory so I wanted to take a data-centric approach using Glottolog's incredible collection of phonetic inventories of all languages and try to come up with an inventory that is accessible to as much of the world's population as possible
Ultimately I think I decided Toki Pona was "good enough" and I still use the orthography that came out of it to write in my private diaries but the exercises it got me doing is what got me into programming (and linguistics!).
Re: The Language Construction Kit (1996, 2012)
#16I've been creating a conlang, it's a rewarding activity even if it's never "used" for anything. I majored in linguistics but there are things about language I've learned from doing this that I never really understood in school. Like reading about math vs actually doing problems.