Words

The students of the NYUAD Core Class Words created five new constructed languages. Short descriptions and websites are linked below.

Arrastil

(Lujain Ibrahim, Alex MacKay, Jessica Molina)

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/arrastil/home

On a spaceship en route to colonizing another planet in the universe, humans have settled into a decades-long sleep until they reach their destination. The artificial intelligence aboard the ship, who are responsible for serving human and technical needs on the spaceship, develop a desire to establish autonomy and a separate culture -- and language -- upon arrival. This project is developed in conjunction with a theatre capstone project by Grace Huang.

Clandenese

(Diego Kleiman, Ariya Chaloemtoem, Ross Jiang)

https://sites.google.com/a/nyu.edu/clandenese/

Clandenese is the secret language of the (fictional) international crime organization Nakaton. The details of Clandenese are revealed from the perspective of the investigators who are studying Nakaton in order to be able to put an end to this organization.

Gada

(Gabriela Castro and Daniela Antara)

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/gada/home

Gada is a designed with the stated mission of reflecting the moral, intellectual and emotional superiority of the female gender, while enabling a fluid and rewarding conversational experience.

Panasian

(Jihyun Kim, Shehroze Khan, Dana Abu Ali)

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/panasianlanguage/home

What would happen if sea levels rose and destroyed Asia, scattering its countries and languages into chaos? Panasian, a language born out of Korean, Urdu and Arabic, presents an answer to that question. Constructed in 2030, Panasian becomes the official language of use throughout Panasia, eventually adapted into a cultural language as more and more people identify with it.

Sentinelese-X

(Shreya Shreeraman, Katarina Holtzapple, William Leighton Dawson)

https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/sentinelese-x/home

The North Sentinelese, a tribe inhabiting an island in the Indian ocean, are the last-known pre-neolithic tribe and have violently resisted contact with the rest of the world for centuries. Putting together clues from the languages around The North Sentinel island and taking cues from the tribe's migration pattern, we piece together a fictitious idea of what the North Sentinelese language might be.