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Chapter 847 Create a new language

In the spacious and bright library, Zhang Chu was searching for linguistic related works on the machine.

He is not Tolkien himself, and he does not have such high language talent and research skills.

In fact, there is a certain risk to write "The Lord of the Rings" in such a short time, because this is not fast food literature, but a work that hides many literary and linguistic values!

Giving an ordinary person half a year, let alone writing a book, it is impossible to create a brand new language.

What's more, in the novel of Lord of the Rings, Tolkien created not only one, but a lot of languages.

Who made him a specialized professor of linguistics?

Although Zhang Chu knew English and Japanese with the help of the Savior system, he was not the two new languages ​​that came out of thin air.

What he has to do now is to see how a language was born!

In this world constructed by "The Lord of the Rings", the common language of Middle Ages is the basic language of all races in the Middle Earth, while the elves are the language used by noble elves and elves' friends, which ordinary people cannot understand at all.

Of course, this makes the infrequently used elf language appear more wise and noble.

Among the Elf languages, Kunya and Cindalin are early and mid-term versions respectively. Among these ancient races, Kunya is actually more common.

In many works, creating a new language is worthy of recognition, which will make the worldview more complete.

Zhang Chu vaguely remembers that when he was on Earth, "Star Trek" had Klingon language, James Cameron's movie "Avatar" had a brand new Nevi language, and "Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" also had a new language called Doslak in the TV series and novels!

He thought happily in his heart that he might have a job in various schools when he graduated, and would like to teach Kunya, a common language guide for traveling to Middle-earth.

Anyway, on earth, many similar courses in Europe and the United States were also loved by students even in China.

The Middle-earth world created by several novels and movies is almost fascinating!

"Just copying books well, why do you want to do these things?" Zhang Chu wished he could slap himself twice, adding a lot of things, and this must be treated with caution.

To want a language to be authentic and credible is not only to create vocabulary, grammar, and even historical background for it, but more importantly to create rhythm.

When a computer program reads a paragraph of text, they hear words that pop up one by one, which do not have the rhythm of humans speaking, so it is obvious that they can distinguish the difference between mechanical sounds and humans making sounds.

Any real language has its own unique rhythm!

To be honest, Zhang Chu may not know much about the elf language like Kunya language as well as a hardcore book fan on Earth. It is difficult for him to write a sentence into elf language, and it is difficult to read it and he cannot talk fluently.

These are the reasons why he has to work hard.

If a person who creates a language cannot use it smoothly, can he still count on others?

Language is not a substance, it exists because it is used.

Whether it is for speaking, writing, or thinking.

Soon Zhang Chu set his goal on David Peterson's English book. No one would translate this type of article. This language-creating work is extremely niche. It is estimated that few people have borrowed it after it was collected!

If this is not the library of Yenching University, I'm afraid Zhang Chu would have to go to the National Library or check if there is any information in Europe and the United States.

The classification of artificial languages ​​is mainly international auxiliary languages, engineering languages ​​and artistic languages.

Elf language belongs to the third category, without spreading a sense of mission and without hard study of mathematics. If a person with a wise eye can find out, he can gather a small group of people to study smoothly!

In David Peterson's view, the process of creating language is somewhat difficult and long. The first thing is to make strange sounds and choose the right one as the basis for language.

The second is to combine the selected phonemes into simple words, and then use words to form sentences to express the meaning.

After that, we need to improve the grammar and formulate certain rules for making sentences and speaking.

Most of the language creation is over here!

But if you want to set up a complete civilization system for language, it is not enough to just speak, and you must be able to write.

That is to add rhetorical methods to meet the standards of ultimately creating text!

Cangjie created characters as a very simple template. After ancient humans gradually learned to speak and could express their meaning, they finally recorded them in the form of words.

Fortunately, Zhang Chu does not need to create a language in the true sense!

What he needs is to fully master this language that has been created.

It is obviously unlikely to learn a language in the library. If you learn a language, you must speak it out loud and you cannot be a dumb person.

When Tolkien designed the language, the language was influenced by Finnish. A word has complex affixes and high precision. Sometimes it can even use one word to express very complex concepts.

The Finnish form is also referenced in pronunciation, and in most cases a single character ends with a vowel.

In order not to affect the rest of the people's reading, Zhang Chu borrowed back a work that created a language.

While wrinkling at the parking lot, he was working hard to learn the five vowels of the Elf Language, a, e, i, o, u

Just like when I was a child, I started with the most basic pronunciation and then worked hard to climb up.

There were many people walking leisurely on the road, and there were also many people who were carrying bags and daring to go to the classroom. Most of them knew Zhang Chu, but no one came to sign or take photos or take photos.

These students of Yenching University have a relatively ordinary attitude towards campus celebrities.

In order to facilitate travel, Zhang Chu bought a luxury car Bentley in the name of Hanlin Culture Media yesterday. When he needed to attend commercial activities, the bodyguard and driver Shen Kai would drive the Bentley out to support the scene. Usually, Zhang Chu drove his current car to school and after school.

It’s not that Zhang Chu can’t afford a better car, but driving a sports car in school may be too fit, and the road conditions in Yanjing cannot be soared.

If you don’t show off your wealth, just drive an ordinary car. There is no need to show off your market!

"It would be even better if you could exchange for a high-level mastery or expert level of the Elf Speech in the system. Unfortunately, why is there no such redemption place?"
Chapter completed!
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