What is Pablang?

Hi! I am Pablo, and this blog details my linguistic journey through making my own constructed language: Pablang!

Why am I doing this?


I think it was a family Bananagrams game, I’m not exactly sure. But for one reason or another, I was looking in the dictionary under “Sch” to see what other words besides school have that start. I found one that was short and sweet:

Schwa: the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English represented by the symbol (ə) in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

For example, in the word ‘America,’ you don’t pronounce either ‘a’ like an ‘a.’ Instead you make this neutral vowel sound and call it a day. I thought it was funny to have so many consonants leading up to just an 'a' sound. I looked deeper into the word that night (mostly because I felt bad winning with a word I didn't know) and five hours later, I was down the rabbit hole comparing different Mongolian writing systems at 3:00 AM. That was the night I became a true linguistics nerd.

I hope making conlang (constructed language) will be a fun project for me to explore all the intricacies of language. My main inspiration is the YouTube channel Artefexian which has recently been doing deep dives into different parts of language among their voluminous breath of videos on large-scale fictional world building. These videos along with Wikipedia, The Language Construction Kit, and the Conlang WikiBook should make up the basis of my information.

What is your language for?

Defining goals for your language is important to a successful conlang. Take it from David J. Peterson, the creator of many famous conlangs such as Dothraki from Game of Thrones. There are many different reasons to make a conlang, including:
  • Engineered Language: A language designed to test the limits of languages.
  • Logical Language: A language built around the structure of formal logic.
  • Philosophical Language:  language created to meet some philosophical goal. 
  • Auxiliary Languages: A language built to be spoken by everyone on earth.
  • Fictional Languages: A language created to be spoken by a fictional race.
  • Artistic Languages: A language created for artistic reasons.
  • Alternate Languages: Languages that explore if history took a different turn.
  • Personal Languages: A language created by and for the inventor. Because why not?
  • Micronational languages: A language to be spoken by a micronation.


This is my goal:

I will create a fictional constructed language to better understand how languages work as a system of communication and a reflection of culture.

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