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Odin2005

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7. I made up my own language, called Alpic.

Reply to First Speaker (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2014, 03:50 AM

Nov 2014

http://wiki.frath.net/Alpic

And I'm currently working on a language that is a descendant of English spoken 2000 years from now.

And there is a whole bunch of us "conlangers": http://www.incatena.org

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