Kēlen

Kēlen

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Kēlen
Created by: Sylvia Sotomayor
Setting and usage: alien species (the Kēleñi)
Total speakers: —
Category (purpose): constructed language
artistic language
Kēlen
Category (sources): a priori language, consciously rejecting linguistic universals to create an alien language
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: art
ISO 639-3: —
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Kēlen is a constructed language created by Sylvia Sotomayor. It is possibly one of the most thorough attempts to create a truly alien language.[attribution needed] It violates a key linguistic universal — namely that all human languages have verbs. In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four relationals. Despite this, Kēlen is an expressive and intelligible language; texts written in Kēlen have been translated into other languages by several people other than the creator of the language.[citation needed]

In its concultural setting, Kēlen is spoken by an alien species (the Kēleñi).

[edit] External links

* An Introduction to Kēlen
* "Verblessness in Kēlen", presented at the 2nd Language Creation Conference

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