Creating a new language part II

If you are here, that means

1. You are here to cheer me on

2. You are here to see me lose my mind

3. You had nothing better than to do.

Source of this information: I am cute, so trust me.

One of my hobbies is to flex my psychology knowledge, which I am going to do now.

So, one of the top 10 questions scientists still can't answer is the concept of archetypes.

Archetypes are concepts, thoughts or tendencies which are engraved into our blood. They are found in almost every human all over the world.

Eg.

All inborn reflexes

Motherly instinct

Praying to Tony, the almighty god.

Justice

Etc. Etc.

So one of these archetypes is something called 'Universal Grammar' which is found in all children.

You see, when I tried to learn Japanese, I had to maintain a notebook, practice writing it every day, and this went on for almost an year, and the only thing I could learn was the alphabet.

But the child me learnt Hindi just by hearing it again and again.

Not to mention, parents generally talk in-

"Alalala, wav does ze baby wan? Ze baby wav milkie milkie?"

So how does a baby learns a proper grammar? He can memorize words like Mama or water, but using them in a sentence should be something he should had been taught, yet he learnt it just by hearing it.

We don't know why that happens.

Since it is unethical to have a human child seperated from his parents, we conduct such experiments on animals.

Because no one cares about them.

So, people have tried to raise dogs, chimpanzees, orangutans, etc just like a human child.

Such animals learn certain words, like pick, eat, no.

Yet they cannot understand complex sentences, indicating they didn't learn grammar.

Hence they can understand

"That, pick."

But they cannot understand,

"Kitty chan, you are the only friend I have, please don't leave me."

So, it is impossible to study the archetype- 'Universal Grammar'

The least we need is to witness the birth of a language, which is impossible. All languages were born many many years ago, and took many years to form and perfect.

So, yeah, its impossible right?

Well....humans are the most resilient pest in the world. They don't give up.

You see, a person said

"Hey, you know how all languages are very weird?

Like in English, read and read are pronounced different,

In French, if I mispronunce a word, the meaning changes,

In Japanese, if I add a ° to a letter, the meaning changes."

And everyone said,

"Yes, languages are very weird."

"So, how about I create a new language, right here, right now, which will not be weird?"

Constructed language, also called con-languages are artificially created languages. They are made to be not weird.

They are extremely important as they allow us to experience the same torture our ansestors went through while creating a language.

The first con language is said to be the Sign Language.

ITHKUIL is said to be the most complicated con language in the world.

Estimated time to learn: Infinite, because no one has been able to learn it till now, not even the creator.

It tries to convert one sentence into one letter, hence you can say a paragraph by writing a word.

Of course, we aren't gonna talk about it. Feel free to learn it and be the first person to be fluent in it.

What we are gonna talk about it is Toki Pona, the simplest con- language in the world. It is derived from many languages, but mostly depends on spanish.

Toki Pona only has 120 words.

And 14 letters.

Estimated time to learn: 1 day to 1 week (if you are fluent in spanish)

So now we know that it is indeed possible to create my own language

Yippie!