User:BinzNakama

1mAeMkbINSnAQAMAeMlWiAeGk1lISKhAlIiW (I am Binz Nakama, creator of the Ælis language.)

I am someone that has always had an affinity with language, but it was my educational career as a Master of Arts in Translation that definitely boosted my fascination. Fascination for languages in general, but for grammar in particular. This doesn't mean that I'm a nitpicker when it comes to grammatical rules (because I often find that they don't make sense), but rather that I like to compare languages and observe how differently they can convey the same thing. This goes not only for the languages that I have studied or that I can speak (because they're all Germanic and Romanic), but for any language with which I've come into contact. In the summer of 2007, on a trip through Finland, I realized how cool it was to speak a language that has no linguistic ties to anything else. This soon led me to contemplating about how cool it would be  to speak a language that only I knew. That's when the idea of a new conlang was born, and I quickly grew ambitious.

Although I wanted this new language to be understood by no-one else but myself, it still had to have a sufficiently consistent grammar so that technically, someone else could learn it. I then decided that I didn't simply want to replace the words of my native language with ones that I had invented myself, but rather break away from everything that the Indo-European model had taught me. I wanted something completely new, a truely a priori language in as many aspects as possible.

The more I started taking this project seriously, the more I rejected the idea that only I should speak this language. So I decided to share it with the world.

Curious? Go take a look!