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Does anyone else make up their own languages? I have been doing this since I was 8 years old. I have made up some very elaborate ones but always thought this was something that made me a bit of a freak until I read about Tolkien's "Secret Vice" (lang making).

When I was a teenager, I learned Esperanto and began writing intricate stories in and about Esperanto and what would happen if people purposely altered the language. This evolved into my main conlang which I have been working on for 10 years now. I guess you could say it's one of my most long-lasting special interests.

Surely there must be other aspies who are language geeks and conlangers like me.

I'm not as of yet officially diagnosed with Aspergers, but it is a hobby of mine, something that I've been doing for a considerable amount of my (perhaps relatively short) life.
Though I imagine I am, to you, comparatively quite young, so I doubt I would exhibit as much experience with conlanging as you.
Still, it's something I personally do and enjoy doing in my spare time.

On a larger scale I often construct worlds with cultures relative to the languages also, the whole concept of a constructed culture, etc. is interesting to me.

Even if I happened to be neurotypical, I would imagine it to be quite probable that there are numerous aspies with an interest in this.

Well, I knew there were lots of NT conlangers in the world, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only AS one out there. I also have made up worlds and cultures to go with my conlangs. I used to make up different ones with each new language and then I started writing longer stories about my main conlang and when I would invent a new language, I would incorporate it as a new culture in the same "world".

As for your youth, I'm sure enthusiasm and enjoyment of creation count for more than experience. If you get as much pleasure out of the languages and the stories built around them as I do, you'll probably still be doing it at my age (not that I'm ancient or anything...well, maybe to you I am, but I don't think so!).

I have made two conlangs, two artificial languages on my own.

One is Vozaga, which cannot be classified as a member of one of the best known groups like Germanic, Romanic or Slavic. It has a very strange grammar. If you want to use a verb, you must break the verb in three parts. The first part get an assimilation to the following subject. The second part is after the subject but before the object. The third part is at the end. An example:

Gosapu [goh-sah-poo] = to learn
Hi [hee] = I
Vipe [veepay] = language

Gi hi sa vipe pu = I learn a language
Gi hi sa Vozaga pu = I learn Vozaga

The second is an inter-slavic language. It is written with cyrillic letters, and the name is Международски язик (Meždunarodski jazik). It has many traits with Esperanto, but the vocabulary is mainly slavic and the pronunciation is like Bulgarian, Macedonian or Serbian. It might be strange to make an artlang with cyrillic instead of Latin letters. Maybe because I am a fan of cyrillic. Sometimes I write English and even Dutch (my native tongue) with Cyrillic, but only phonetically.

Making conlangs is a hobby of mine. I have a conlang called "Liaman", it's a Germanic language, largely based on English and Dutch.

Examples:

Wat ist jer naam? - What is your name?
Ik a wanten voor goen voor London zit dag - I want to go to London today

Wow, I'm interested in auxlangs and conlangs, and as a result I've heard of both Meždunarodski jazik and Liaman, and didn't realise they were both created by Aspies, that's cool!

As a teenager I'd made up my own full language, the basic root words deriving from modified backwards French. It was developed enough that I thought in it all the time, yet never spoke to anyone in it or told anyone about it. Now I can't remember a word of this language.

There are two people that I know, that made artificial languages, but not only those languages but they practice geofiction. They have an imaginary country where that language is spoken.

One is Rolandt Tweehuysen, who made Spokanië (Dutch). In English it would be Spocania. The language is in Dutch Spokaans, in English Spocanian, in Spocanian itself Spooksoliy. He is a professional linguist. I don't know whether he has autism, likely not. There should be a Spocanian minority in the United States.

The other is a forum member of the Dutch autism forum. He has Asperger, I think (could also be PDD/NOS), and made Friland. Friland is a country with Frilandic has the main language. Other languages spoken on the geofictional country are French and Spanish, maybe he should make an artificial dialect of those languages. In a colony Dutch is spoken. Frilandic could be classified as a Germanic language. There are two alphabets. One is made by himself, it could be a runic alphabet. The other is Latin, as we know it, but with addition of extra signs like Þþ, maybe inspired by Old English.

And of course Blizzard Entertainment who has made several artificial languages (only a few words and expressions) for each race in the game World of Warcraft, for example Darnassian, language of the Night Elves, and Taurahe, language of the Tauren, to name a few.

Guilty as charged. I am a conlang geek. I have a blog about conlangs in English and Esperanto, I know a little Volapük, and I have the galaxy-s only web site devoted to the Amerysk conlang which was created in 1979 (not by me) based on Gothic and Anglo-saxon.

I did start work on a conlang of my own but I've decided to work on Amerysk instead if I can get more information on it.

I have made a new conlang which is a mix of Dutch and Russian. Nouns, advers, adjectives and verbs are from Dutch origin. Other words, the grammar and the alphabet is Russian. So the alphabet is Cyrillic. The name of the language is Недерруссисый таль (Nederrussisyj tal').

I have made some changes.

Here a phrase to start with:

English: I go/am going to school.
Dutch: Ik ga naar school.
Russian: Я еду в школу (Ja edu v školu).
Недерруссисый таль: Я гаю в схолю (Ja gaju v sholju).

Some words related to autism:
Autism = аутысм (autysm);
Autistisch = аутыстисый (autystisyj);
Asperger's Syndrom = синдромь Аспергэра (sindrom' Aspergėra)
PDD = Pervasive Developmental Disorder = Первасивый Онтвыклынгссторнис (ПОС) (Pervasivyj Ontvyklyngsstornis) or Первасивый Онтвыклынгный Сторнис (Pervasivyj Ontvyklyngnyj Stornis).

Yep, like it too. I made an alphabet when I was 9, mostly for privacy reasons (so others wouldn't be able to read what I wrote down). I've mostly forgotten it though. Recently I've been thinking about reintroducing the Dual Case in English (We Areth, You Areth, They Areth), but I abandoned that in favour of Limitrada.

The most curious thing about Limitrada is the grammar, which uses an Object-Subject-Verb structure, it has only three times (past-present-future), and words aren't conjugated, subjects are and most interestingly it has no copular verb which means all nouns are "Inductive"
Genesis 11:1 - naseu'errada knaseperrada euselkadesh katte
-na- = one
-se- = counting postfix
-u'er- = language
-rada = postfix which denotes it is used for communicating

k- = and
-per- = speech

eus- = past
el- = three
-kad- = Sol
-esh = postfix which denotes we're talking about a celestial body

katte = verb for to possess

I have also bought the book words of the world by the dutch scientist Abram de Swaan.

I have also thought of a culture to the language (or rather, a language to the culture) which is to be included in a book I would love to write.

EDIT: First spelling error in my language.