Over on the French thread, @Mike_H introduced us to Magma, a French prog band who sing most of their songs in an invented language called Kobaïan. That made me think of the mighty Sigur Ros who sing in a variation of Icelandic called Hopelandic.

There are a lot of these invented languages about. We’ve all probably heard of Esperanto however in the 20s it was just one of several test tube languages. Novelists, film directors, linguists, comedians, poets: there are many brave souls who have invented a language of their own for many different reasons.

Here is a thread in their honour.

Let’s kick off with “Professor” Stanley Unwin and Unwinese aka Basic English Twenty Fido. The tombstone for Stan and his wife reads: “Reunitey in the heavenly-bode -Deep Joy!” Wonderful!

Have we any Klingon speakers in our midst? I bet the Dude from Atlantis speaks fluent Elfish.