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Science fiction story published before 1966 with constructed language demonstrating some NLP principles
In a 1966 interview, J.R.R. Tolkien was discussing his thoughts about contemporary science fiction writers.
It is when dealing with the question of language, he feels, that science fiction writers do ...
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Did Tolkien invent enough Dwarvish to carry on a conversation? [duplicate]
I read the glossaries of the Lord of the Rings books and it said that the language spoken by the Dwarves was not spoken to others except for a few words. That got me wondering if Tolkien had ever even ...
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What did Christopher Tolkien mean by "Tolkien's fifteenth invented language"?
I know this question would usually raise other questions as to what is considered a separate language (e.g. Qenya/Quenya, Gnomish/Sindarin, etc.).
The thing is that somewhere there is an official list....
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Could Tolkien write in his languages without using a wordlist?
Were any of his languages developed enough that he could just write or even talk with them without using any kind of dictionary, wordlist, or grammar helper? In other words, did he actually know them?...
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How many fictional languages did Tolkien create?
Tolkien created many languages. Is there any list of all the languages he invented?
How many fictional languages did Tolkien create?
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Did Tolkien think about language evolution when the speakers are immortal?
Tolkien, being a linguist, designed his fictional languages rather carefully. Quenya and Sindarin were closely related, having both descended from the primordial speech of the elves. Tolkien, of ...
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Was Tolkien the first to invent languages purely for fictional works?
Imaginary languages are now par for the course in fantasy literature: sometimes called something like 'the old tongue' or 'the ancient language', sometimes the languages of different types of being or ...
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Did Tolkien's contemporaries know Quenya?
Tolkien famously interacted with several other writers, most notably CS Lewis, as he was working on The Lord of the Rings and his other works. But did any of those writer friends really delve into ...
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