Láadan
Láadan is a constructed language that was developed by science fiction writer Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 .
history
Elgin created the language to deal with the question of whether or to what extent the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is valid. Elgin believed that many languages in the world (including the Indo-European languages ) were designed to express the ideas of men as accurately as possible. As a result, women may not be able to properly express their ideas. Láadan was an attempt to construct a language suitable for women. In her trilogy of novels, Native Tongue , Elgin treats the origin, theory and spread of language against the background of a dystopia in which women no longer have civil rights .
Audio language
Láadan has a special position among the constructed languages because it is a tonal language . Speech has two (or four, depending on the interpretation) tones, namely a high tone (e.g. "ó") and an unmarked low tone (e.g. "o"). When considering double vowels, there is also a rising tone ("oó") and a falling tone ("óo").