If you ’re fascinated by exotic nomenclature and futurist human slang , you ’re in luck . Eastern Michigan University , with the help of philology - loving scifi author Suzette Haden Elgin , has put together an exhaustive leaning of scifi novel that boast every flavor of foreign , notional linguistic process . A twosome of weeks ago we posteda beautiful diagram bear witness the origin of most Western language , and now with this list you may move forrader into the possible futurity of those languages .
https://gizmodo.com/want-to-invent-an-alien-language-368134
The best part is that the U Michigan lean does n’t just admit the best scifi Quran that moderate alien languages and futuristic human single . It also includes books with linguist bomber ( there are astonishingly many , let in awesome novel The Sparrow , as well as Elgin ’s own Native Tongue ) , animal languages ( recall Rendezvous With Rama ) , and books that habituate linguistic hypothesis .
For some understanding , Iain M. Banks ’ Feersum Endjinn is n’t include here , despite the fact that it ’s write in a weird space lingo . However , the list is packed with intriguing stories I now require to go through , like this one : We Have Always Spoken Panglish , by Suzette Haden Elgin , which is apparently about “ a linguist from ‘ the U.S. Corps of Linguists ’ [ who ] tries to save an endangered extraterrestrial language . ” Another is Russell Hoban ’s Riddley Walker , localise in a postapocalyptic , Dark Ages - style England about 2000 years from now , and write in a future interlingual rendition of English . Hoban is also the source of A Mouse and His Child , a account book that turned my brain inside - out as a kid ( please ignore the movie version of it ) .
Linguistics in SciFi Book List[Eastern Michigan University ] ( Thanks , Sacha ! )
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