Sillyspeak: the Art of Making a Fake Language

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvabx/sillyspeak-the-art-of-making-a-fake-language VOT-PEL-JIC-RUD. VOT-RUD-JIC-TAM. These aren’t word puzzles or acronym-making gone mad. Though the words are meaningless, they are sentences in a language—one of perhaps hundreds of miniature artificial languages that language scientists have created for their research.These mini-languages are to real languages what Matchboxes are to real cars. You...