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Conlanging and 'Krixano'
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One of my favorite subjects to learn and talk about is Linguistics. I love
the technical aspects of language. While I love grammar, I also don't like
prescriptivism - the standardization of grammar that speakers must follow.
Instead I agree more with the descriptivism approach, which is to
*describe* the current usage of grammar that the speakers use. In this
method, that means you would describe the grammar for each different phase
of the language. This means you describe the evolution of the language -
rather than trying to keep the language the same.

Linguistics is a very wide field. It pairs well with many other sciences,
including Computer Science. You need to be able to parse the syntax of a
language for speech recognition. Speech recognition software needs to be
able to understand the different phonemes for each dialect of a language
that makes up a phone. It needs to be able to understand the different
meaning of a word based on the surrounding context and to use the
connotation of a word as context.

There are different components to a language's Grammar: Phonology,
Phonotactics, Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Or
rather, the sounds of a language, how these sounds form to make syllables,
how these sounds are produced and heard by the ear and mouth, how words are
made up of units called morphemes and the meaning of each morpheme, how
words make up sentences, the meanings behind the words and how they relate
to the words, and everything else. Personally, my favorite parts to study
are Morphology, Phonotactics, and Syntax.

Because of my interest in the technical aspect of langauges and Grammar, I
enjoy making my own languages, aka conlanging (constructed language ->
conlang -> conlanging). This started when I was very young. One of the
first languages that I can remember making was a language called Alwalii.
It was an extremely simple language that had very few sounds: ah
([a in IPA]), eh ([i] in IPA), b, i ([ai] or [aj] in IPA), o ([o] in IPA),
u ([u] in IPA), ch ([x] in IPA), h, m, d, and s. Here's the only sentence I
can remember from the language:

Im ehm bim bh eachmed ehm eams am ehm eachi.

This is the first verse of the bible translated into the language. I
created this language *at least* 12 years ago, if not longer.

A language that I created much more recently (I think I started it around
5-7 years ago and continued evolving it for over 4 years) is called Aenero
and is actually where my username 'krixano' comes from. 'krixano' is
actually a translieration of my name in English into Aenero. The process
of this is:

Christian -> Kristian -> Kristan -> Krixan -> Krixano

Firstly, 'ch' is turned into it's closest sound in the language, 'k'. Next,
'ia' is not a viable diphthong (two vowels making one sound) in the
language, so the prominent sound (the 'a') is kept and the other dropped.
Then, 'st' also doesn't exist and doesn't follow the phonotactics of the
language (you can only have two consonants next to each other in certain
specific cases - 'kr' is allowed, for example), so it's translated into 'x'
([x] in IPA, like the German ch sound, for ch in bach). Finally, all nouns
end in 'o' (this would involve morphology. 'o' is a bound morpheme that is
placed on a root to denote that root is a noun. This allows roots to take
on different affixes for different parts of speech - this system was based
mainly on Esperanto).

I could go on about this for many many pages, so I think this may be a good
place to stop. However, I am thinking about writing more about my languages
on here, and I'll probably post my book/document that describes this
language on here.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully I'll post more phlog posts soon.