klesperanton

Klesperanton is a hybrid artificial language that takes elements from the constructed languages Esperanto and Klingon.

It is now spoken by dozens of people across the world, and fluently by several. Well a couple.

Klesperanton uses some linguistic features from both languages. For example the languages uses the Object Verb Subject (OVS) word order from Klingon and a whole bunch of characters you won't find on a standard keyboard from Esperanto.

The language has a wide range of sounds that the speaker needs to be able to produce including 34 consonants, 9 vowels, 3 semivowels, 2 demisemivowles, 1.5 hemidemisemivowles and 17 diphthongs. Non-Klesperantists may be surprised when confronted by a speaker emiting grunts, growls, clicks, pops and the "kSprit'on" exclamation which most closely resembles a spit whilst humming and whistling.

Klesperanton is somewhat rare in the linguistic world because it is a semi-tonal language. Speakers of the language are encouraged to develop their own individual tonal meanings for common words. Typical tones include first (high or singing tone), second (rising tone), third (dipping tone), fourth (falling tone), fifth (double-dipping or W tone) and sixth (the spitting tone). Unfortunately there is no common standard for tones, and this can sometimes lead to confusion among speakers.


Useful Phrases:

Hello: hA'Salu'GggGhh
Goobye: GggGhh'Al'Lala
One beer, please: petaQ, BghEghE^^R nuNnUU@!