latter, although it has glyphs for some digraphs/ligatures (Æ, CH, TH); most Aurebesh text is English with 1:1 substitution save for the …
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digraph replacements. Oh, if it's not obvious, a "digraph" is using two characters to represent a single sound. In English, the common …
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ones include, for example, "th, ch, sh" for consonants, and using "oo" or "-ue" for the long U sound. (I've also tweeted before about how …
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the English "long vowel" used to refer to vowel length rather than vowel quality, before the Great Vowel Shift. English orthography used to…
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be a lot more phonetically consistent.) Anyway. In the neologisms I'm going to touch on from the conlanging world, you'll notice that we …
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use a pretty consistent derivational system for them, and "conlang" itself is a prime example, coming from "constructed language." …
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There are any number of kinds of conlangs, but I'm going to try not to get too deep in the weeds here. There are auxlangs, or auxiliary …
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languages, which are intended to be easy to learn and use and thus tend to include features like being completely regular and a lexicon …
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that draws heavily on widespread languages; Esperanto is the one you're most likely to have heard of, and another one I'm fond of is …
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Interlingua, because it's generally intelligible, at least as a written language, to someone who hasn't studied it but does speak a Germanic
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also good because it clearly eventually becomes Interlac sometime in the next 900 years
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