Kankonian

From Langmaker

Conlang	Kankonian
Author	James E. F. Landau
Year Began	1997
Language Type	fictional language
Lexicon Size	5500
Etymologies	No
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	No
Primer	No

Kankonian, the language of the planet Kankonia of the star Venska in the Lehola galaxy, was designed by James E. F. Landau.

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Uniqueness

Kankonian offers one of the larger lexicons on the Web, with a dictionary of over 5,500 words. This extraterrestrial language is vaguely reminescent of the tongues of the Middle East, but it is based directly on no human language, with the vocabulary designed according to the author's sense of the most natural set of sounds for each idea. Kankonian is atavistic, i.e. every single native word comes directly from what the human brain perceives as the most "natural" set of sounds for that idea.

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Language sources

Arguably Hebrew/Arabic, Latin, Greek and Nahuatl played a part in its phonology and grammatical concerns, but I tried as much as possible to stay with my own instincts, as if I had never been exposed to language before, when creating Kankonian. Klingon helped as inspiration for creating a language associated with an extraterrestrial world.

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Interest of others

The large vocabulary, the beautiful, exotic Middle-Eastern-ish sound of the language, the Kankonian culture associated with this language. People tell me they like the soothing otherworldliness of the Kankonian universe. One German scientist was even referred to the language's site by a search engine after he had a dream about the word "alsazar". He wrote me and said he found strange connections between the lives of the two of us.

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