Wolfese

Wolfese (natively: Faliathúrna) is a minimalist constructed language shaped around the idea of theoretical canine speech. Created for an upcoming book, Wolfese is mostly made up of vocabulary created specifically for it, but it also contains some modified Irish words and even a couple or so Dalmatian words. It was created as an artlang based on the sounds that canine species are believed to have the capacity to produce. It was designed around a canine IPA chart.

Wolfese was constructed between 21-23 April 2023, it has a slightly larger word count than Toki Pona, at around 150 words with more likely to be added at a later date to make the language a little more practical. Toki Pona was used as inspiration for the main words of the language, to make sure that every subject was covered to make the language functional. Some Toki Pona words were not used as they were deemed unnecessary for Wolfese, and extra words, including articles, were added. The inclusion of articles was an artistic choice as its creator liked the idea of articles in languages, and found them helpful to make Wolfese less contextual. He also made the decision of capitalising all nouns like in German, simply for the purpose of making the written form of the language less reliant on context to be understood. For example, the phrase ‘Ar Hūnacha dasa frazathi’ could be translated as ‘The person is eating’ or ‘the person is food.’ This is avoided as the word ‘frazathi’ meaning ‘food’ or ‘eating’ is capitalised in noun form, so ‘Ar Hūnacha dasa frazathi’ means ‘the person is eating’, whilst ‘Ar Hūnacha dasa Frazathi’ means ‘the person is food.’

Despite having a similar amount of words to Toki Pona, Wolfese is a bit more difficult for a lot of people to learn due to the inclusion of tones, although they are rather infrequent and mostly occur on the letter ‘a’ or ‘u’. There are two dialects of Wolfese, Eastern and Western. Western Wolfese is considered to be the standard variation,

Phonology
Wolfese has a selection of consonants and vowels from the Canine IPA, it was originally going to include ‘ao’ in its inventory, but this was dropped, and now the language has a three vowel system.