This course explores languages that have been deliberately constructed, including Esperanto, Klingon, and Tolkien’s Elvish
FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos
555 years, 6 months
Units & Quizzes
20
Unlimited Lifetime access
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Certificate of Completion
Students construct their own languages while considering the basic linguistic characteristics of various languages of the world. Through regular assignments, students describe the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and writing system of their constructed language. The final assignment is a grammatical description of the new language.
Course Currilcum
- Phonetics 1 Unlimited
- Phonetics 2 Unlimited
- Phonology 1 Unlimited
- Phonology 2 Unlimited
- Klingon, Quenya, Parseltongue, etc. Unlimited
- Morphology Unlimited
- Case Unlimited
- Transitivity Unlimited
- Agreement Unlimited
- Word Order 1 Unlimited
- Embedded Clauses Unlimited
- Questions Unlimited
- Word Order 2 Unlimited
- Finishing Up Syntax Unlimited
- Discourse Particles Unlimited
- Kinship Terminology Unlimited
- Numbers and Colors Unlimited
- Writing Systems Unlimited
- Historical Linguistics Unlimited
- Hesitation Noises, Language Games, Honorifics, etc. Unlimited
