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Hello, do you know where I could find out some information about the famous Tlön
language, this language designed by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges?
It is interesting because in this fictional language there is no substantives.
"There are no nouns in Tlön's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" languages
and the dialects are derived: there are impersonal verbs, modified by monosyllabic
suffixes (or prefixes) with an adverbial value. For example: there is no word corresponding
to the word "moon,", but there is a verb which in English would be "to moon" or "to
moonate." "The moon rose above the river" is hlor u fang axaxaxas mlo, or literally:
"upward behind the onstreaming it mooned."
Jorge L. Borges "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
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no pierdas tu tiempo che!
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Strange language... Did Borges invent the words? They look like invented. Che!
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Yes, Borges invented them but it seems to me that it is an interesting experience.
A lot of writers tried to invent fictional languages. But for me the best language
invention in literature is the Borges' one.
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