Happy Sunday! I enjoy reading stories that play with language, and create fascinating and creative words to fit their world. I recently finished Neuromancer by William Gibson which reminded me of the Matrix and was filled with invented terminology which had me lost part of the time, but was able to figure out the meaning with the action. A few years back I read the The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall in which he created a world of language where the words on the page created visual images of meaning. Another fascinating story about communication is Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dun in which as the 26 letters of the alphabet fall from a sign, the island residences are forbidden from using them in conversation.
From Star Trek to Dune to Lord of the Rings to Embassytown to 1984 to The Fifth Season, science fiction and fantasy is riddled with made up language.
Ten Great Books With Their Own LanguagesNovels where the worldview is highly affected by a SF-created language.
20 of our favorite fictional languages from brilliant fantasy worlds
A book with a made-up language.
Happy Reading!
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