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Design a Language!Design a Language!Design a Language!Design a Language!
Language
• Languages develop all the time. • Even the Oxford English Dictionary
adds new words each year! • Can you think of any recent ones? • In 2011 these words were added:
auto-complete, green-fuel, cyberbullying, bromance!
How do you create a language? • Esperanto is a language created in the 1880s.• It is designed to be a WORLD LANGUAGE:
neutral and easy to learn by everyone.• Up to 2 million people can speak it. • It borrows its grammar, vocabulary, sounds
and script from different languages around the world.
• Can you spot any influences in these words? Saluton! (Hello) Mia noma estas… (My name
is) Dankon! (Thank you)• Do you know the top 3 most widely spoken
languages? Chinese English Spanish
Cornish Language• Cornish was one of six Celtic languages and was
spoken in Cornwall and West Devon over a thousand years ago.
• By the late 17th century only people west of Truro could speak Cornish – and most of these also spoke English.
• By the late early 19th century it had died out as a community language.
• In the early 20th century a man called Henry Jenner attempted to revive the language.
• Since then the language has been recreated and many people now speak Cornish.
How do you revive a language?
• You can use similar languages and look at how they have developed, as well as borrowing words from them.
• Can you think of any languages similar to Cornish?
• Welsh, Breton, Gaelic, Manx• Cornish REVIVALISTS used these
languages to create the vibrant Cornish language that is spoken today.
All languages are made from other languages!
• Around 80% of ‘English’ words derive from other languages! Can you guess which language the following words come from?
Sky = Norse (Scandinavian)
Castle= Norman (French)
Cannibal= SpanishBalcony= ItalianShampoo= HindiKetchup
= ChineseVoodoo
= African languages
Rucksack= German
Coffee= Arabic
Robot= CzechHooligan
= Irish (Gaelic)Flannel
= Welsh?
Language development
• When words from another language are borrowed they are often adapted and changed.
• You can see how this has happened with these English words:
• “downloaden” is German for…?• “futbol” is Spanish for…?
Your Challenge
• Create a new word to use in English:
• It can be based on a word from another language
OR
• It can be based on English words; for example, “foothouse” could mean shoe!
• YOUR WORD MUST NOT BE RUDE!
Spread the word!• As a class, use your replacement words
for the next month.• How many people can you get to use
your word?• The longer a language lives and the
wider it spreads, the more diverse, flexible and dynamic it becomes.
• Good luck! Buena suerte! Chons da!