Name: 6 Minute English: Inventing languages
Uploaded: 2021-10-21T16:55:17.000Z
Duration: 6 min 22 s
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.

instead of 'my fault' is a way of accepting that she's wrong.

to show I really mean the opposite of what

I said. Both are examples of small changes in English,

which have happened naturally over the last decade or two.

Changes like these happen because unlike, say, Latin,

English is a living language - a language

people speak and use in their ordinary lives.

New bits of English are invented as people use their language in new ways.

from an entirely different galaxy - somewhere like Kronos, home planet of

Yes, when sci-fi TV show Star Trek introduced alien characters called Klingons,

the makers needed to invent a whole new language-

Klingon - entirely made up, and unrelated to any human language,

Klingon has developed a life of its own today.

Today, you can even study it at university.

So, Neil, my quiz question is this: In 2010, Klingon became

the first invented language to do what? Is it a) have its own dictionary.

b) have an opera written, or c) be recognised as an official language.

by the United Nations? Every language needs vocabulary

so I'll say a) Klingon was the first invented language to have its own dictionary.

in the programme. Klingon isn't the only made up language

David Peterson is the creator of Dothraki, a language used in the fantasy

David spoke to Michael Rosen, presenter of BBC Radio 4 programme,

They discussed Saint Hildegard, who created

the very first made up language in the 12th century.

of nouns, a whole list of nouns - many of them Godly,

many of them not - and she would drop them into songs using Latin grammar,

and other Latin words and so that it's not a language.

proper, it's the way that we understand it now,

because really, when we talk about a language, it's not just the vocabulary,

it's the grammar. Nevertheless, we still kind of look on her

as the patron saint of modern conlanging.

Saint Hildegard invented new nouns, but used Latin grammar.

So, David doesn't think her invention is a proper language.

Nevertheless, Saint Hildegard is considered

The patron saint of something refers to a Christian saint

Here, the activity is inventing a conlang -

short for 'constructed language' - artificially invented languages

He wanted to make it easier for people who spoke different languages

to communicate with each other. Listen as David Peterson speaks Esperanto

how much he understands, for BBC Radio 4 programme,

You're an English speaker from Western Europe and in the 19th Century

'universal' meant 'able to be understood by people from Western Europe' and so

for example, to say 'I speak Esperanto' -

The ‘parle’ bit from its Latin root and 'me', obviously.

Like Spanish, Italian and other modern European languages,

Michael guessed the meaning of the Esperanto word ‘parolas’ from its Latin root -

But the second sentence of Esperanto, isn't so easy.

He can't answer because it's too difficult,

I think I'd probably get stuck on that as well.

But at least Esperanto was invented for humans, not

And speaking of creatures from outer space,

did I get the right answer to your quiz question, Sam?

Ah, so I asked Neil, about an unusual first, achieved by the made up

I guessed it was first invented language to have its own dictionary.

Incredibly, the correct answer was b) - in 2010 a company

of Dutch musicians and singers performed the first ever Klingon opera.

The story must have been hard to follow, but I'm sure the singing was

MajQa! - that's Klingon for great, apparently.

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