I want to invent my own language

My best friend and I had our own written language in year 8. We were studying Ancient Egypt, so we came up with a pictograph system so we could pass notes in class and not get caught.

Paid off when our history teacher grabbed a note we were passing. She was in the habit of reading them out to the class. She swooped on ours with a gleeful grin, picked it up and her face visibly fell. So funny. She looked at us with this look that said "Well...I don't know whether to yell at you, or to be impressed" put it down, and went on with the class.

I can't remember what it said, but it was something about her looking like a freak :)

I can still write/translate the language, but it takes a while to translate...I can do it in my head though.

Edit: Wait, that's more of a code than a language, isn't it? Bugger.

Look up "Conlang", or constructed language. A lot of people make these and they can be tons of fun! It's an especially popular practice among people writing fantasy or sci-fi books when they need a foreign language for their aliens to speak or whatnot. There are guides available for creating really deep, fully-fleshed-out languages complete with their own phonetic sounds and grammatical rules, etc.

Good luck!

I invented my own language in 8th grade. It was awesome. I wish someone would have bothered too learn it. I still sometimes think in pieces of it.

My best friend in college studies linguistics and has come up with multiple different languages. It's rather intersting. Not only that, but he also does things like romanticize english, de-german french, yada yada. He's awesome.

Jibbrish :)

Me and a couple of my friends made up a language.

It wasn't one that could be spoken, but It could be written.

In our language, Each Letter had a Corresponding Number, so we could Take our Charts and Translate Easly.

Yes, it's normal. My cousin and I actually did once. Man, that was so long ago. It's complicated and you'd have to kind of learn Spanish to learn it. But I do think it was worth it.

I think everyone should do it. Even once in their life and just share it with one person. You never know where it'll take you, anyway.

Isn't the whole point of language to communicate? Who will you communicate with...yourself? Why don't you just think to yourself? I guess it could be a bit cool, but I don't see why you don't just learn a different language which actually enables you to speak with new people.

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