Sendarian!
Greetings to all you fellow glossopoeists and accidental stumblers upon this website!
I'm David and I'm a glossopoeist based in Barcelona!
From the age of 11, I have been developing my skills further and further into the beautiful craft of language construction. Over the years I have created many languages for my conworld, Sepistania, and for things that I've been interested in at the time. Initially inspired by the Elvish language, I began designing scripts and words for my first language Hopra (now called Hopyratian) and my world has greatly expanded since. I feel now that I have enough of my languages to begin to publish them on a website, so they can start to get recognition. Another reason for this site is to serve as a portfolio for any potential language creation jobs!
Although I have not had any formal education on linguistics, I have considered myself a student of the science of language since I was 14 when I studied Esperanto which taught me the fundamentals of basic grammar and allowed me to develop my first language Hopyratian. A year later, I read Mark Rosenfelder's "The Language Construction Kit" which I highly recommend to all glossopoeist who have just begun their constructing - it greatly helped me with phonetics. Also, I have learn glossopoetic techniques and been inspired by many languages such as Elvish Sindarin, Dothraki, High Valyrian and Na'vi as well as the auxiliary language Esperanto and Interlingua. My knowledge is constantly developing and I try to apply much of my newly learned ideas into my languages.
From the age of 11, I have been developing my skills further and further into the beautiful craft of language construction. Over the years I have created many languages for my conworld, Sepistania, and for things that I've been interested in at the time. Initially inspired by the Elvish language, I began designing scripts and words for my first language Hopra (now called Hopyratian) and my world has greatly expanded since. I feel now that I have enough of my languages to begin to publish them on a website, so they can start to get recognition. Another reason for this site is to serve as a portfolio for any potential language creation jobs!
Although I have not had any formal education on linguistics, I have considered myself a student of the science of language since I was 14 when I studied Esperanto which taught me the fundamentals of basic grammar and allowed me to develop my first language Hopyratian. A year later, I read Mark Rosenfelder's "The Language Construction Kit" which I highly recommend to all glossopoeist who have just begun their constructing - it greatly helped me with phonetics. Also, I have learn glossopoetic techniques and been inspired by many languages such as Elvish Sindarin, Dothraki, High Valyrian and Na'vi as well as the auxiliary language Esperanto and Interlingua. My knowledge is constantly developing and I try to apply much of my newly learned ideas into my languages.
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I have been a member of the Language Creation Society since 2013, and in April 2015 I spoke at the 6th Language Creation Conference hosted in Horsham in the UK about my Eldich language which can be viewed here (my part begins at 2:25:30).
The day before the Conference, I was interviewed as part of Britton Watkins' documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues which has finally been released! Information about the documentary can be found here at conlangingfilm.com. I was also written about in John Quijada's Conlang Curiosities section in the 2nd issue of the Language Creation Tribune. He discovered samples of my Hopyratian Language on the internet and decided to give me a really complimentary review. My original Holik Hopyratian Script was added to the alphabet encyclopaedia website Omniglot which was my first publication of one of my conlangs. In 2020, I published my first collection of essays about a philosophical and spiritual aspect to glossopoeia, On Glossopoetics, which is available here in PDF form. |
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As well as constructed languages, I have also been very passionate about natlangs (natural languages) and I have been studying Spanish since I was 13 and I have also achieved fluency in Italian and Portuguese. I have studied the grammars and taken inspiration from languages such as Russian, Mandarin, Latin, Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Sanskrit (in fact most languages to be honest) and have a in depth knowledge of their grammars and phonologies.
You might have been wondering about the name "glossopoeia" I used in the name of the website. The name is derived from Greek: γλωσσο- meaning "language" + -ποιία meaning "making". I chose to use this over the word "conlang" mainly because of its slightly more poetic, and yet scientific, sound, over than the rather clumsy "conlang". To find more on the etymology of the word, this site here sums it up quite concisely. To read more about my view on the term "conlang", please see my blog post here.
A quick note on using this site: what I have done is described the grammar of my languages in the link at the top. They appear in section divided up into the different grammatical categories, after an introduction. There are buttons at the end of each page to take you to the next section, or back to the previous one. I will also be putting PDFs on the More section of the site for you to download to view offline.
Thank you for reading through my site and I hope you enjoy my work and find it interesting!
David Tait
You might have been wondering about the name "glossopoeia" I used in the name of the website. The name is derived from Greek: γλωσσο- meaning "language" + -ποιία meaning "making". I chose to use this over the word "conlang" mainly because of its slightly more poetic, and yet scientific, sound, over than the rather clumsy "conlang". To find more on the etymology of the word, this site here sums it up quite concisely. To read more about my view on the term "conlang", please see my blog post here.
A quick note on using this site: what I have done is described the grammar of my languages in the link at the top. They appear in section divided up into the different grammatical categories, after an introduction. There are buttons at the end of each page to take you to the next section, or back to the previous one. I will also be putting PDFs on the More section of the site for you to download to view offline.
Thank you for reading through my site and I hope you enjoy my work and find it interesting!
David Tait
