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Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don’t really exist
If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.
In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From the classic constructed languages of Star Trek and Tolkien to (literally) Orwellian Newspeak and pop-culture sensations such as Game of Thrones, The Witcher and The Mandalorian, this is your portal to over a hundred realms and lexicons – and perhaps the starting point to creating your own.
'Wahlgren has written a wonderful book: ... A tribute to the collective creativity. When you have read it you just want more!'
-- Fredrik Kylberg, Östgöta Corren Swedish-language newspaper
16th March, 2021 in Society & Culture, Trivia & Gift
We spoke to Yens Wahlgren, author of The Universal Translator, about his love for constructed languages. You describe yourself as a xenosociolinguist, could you tell us what that means? Well, it’s a made up academic-sounding discipline for the study of how languages from outer sp…
21st September, 2017 in Biography & Memoir, Fiction, Local & Family History
J.R.R. Tolkien lived for much of his early life in and around the British industrial city of Birmingham, but he was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State in southern Africa in 1892. Both his parents, Arthur and Mabel, had moved there from the Birmingham area and married i…
