Conlangery #82: Rikchik
January 28, 2013 3 Comments
Today we talk to Denis Moskowitz about his wonderful experiment Rikchik and the strange aliens who speak it.
Top of Show Greeting: Forkëzoq
Feature Conlang: Rikchik
An image of a Rikchik signing.
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All human and rikchik beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They should act towards one another in a spirit of awesomeness.
I thought this was a really neat discussion. I’m only really interested in making naturalistic human languages, but making truly alien languages is such a great exercise in more freeform creativity, escaping the bounds of what’s humanly possible, that it brings a lot of perspective on what may be possible within the bounds of the humanly possible, too. DJP made some comment a number of episodes back about how the purpose of conlanging isn’t necessarily to simply apply the features of natural languages to made-up ones, and alien languages are a great chance to think outside the box. Hope you do some more like this!
Impressive, a truly unique language, haven’t been this excited in a language since I discovered Ithkuil, that brought me to your site btw. Great show guys, and of course congratulations to Mr, Moskowitz on a truly extraordinary achievement, the world of SF needs more people like you sir.