Ithkuil
Ithkuil is a constructed language by John Quijada.
If English is a thick novel, then Toki Pona is a haiku.
1 What, then, would Ithkuil be?
Uiphawâtļûxe’ň?
(Might it happen to be a large symbolic grove of trees?)2
Interesting words
- -ÇR-
- Poignancy, or an “aaaaw” reaction to irresistable cuteness.
- -FQŢ-
- Fellow hobbyists or enthusiasts.
- -QFW-
- Bismuth.
Resources
- Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language
- The Lexicon
- Utopian for Beginners (The New Yorker, 2012)
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Sonja Lang, Toki Pona: The Language of Good (p. 11). Also linked from ‘Did you find it?’ ‘I did’. ↩
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An example from Chapter 2: Morpho-Phonology. ↩