It all started when language creator Martin Lignell created a fantasy world he calls Eoma, which revolves around board games and a book.
From the book was also born his own language Neraan ́dâar, which he has now worked on for just over a year.
"I felt that I wanted to deepen the world, so I started to come up with a few words. After that, it was so much fun that I couldn't stop," says Martin Lignell.
Starting from nouns
He started with just a few words with no structure and then also grammar.
In his first attempt to create the language, Martin Lignell used verbs as the root of words. It turned out not to work, so he had to think again and came to the conclusion that it was much easier to start from nouns.
"It was a major revision of my dictionary, you could say," he says.
Get inspired by the language of Star Trek
Like all languages, Neraan ́dâar is still evolving, but it is built so that you can create new words when needed.
– The alphabet has two different fonts containing 25 letters – a straight script for easier communication and an academic script with squiggly letters.
Initially, Martin Lignell hopes that mainly role players, larps and fantasy fans will use the language. But he also sees that there are others who may be interested in the language, such as linguists and others who are interested in Vikings and history in films.
"It's starting to grow among those who like fantasy. But in the 80s, the language Klingon was created for the Star Trek series, which is now available on Duolingo and in textbooks. I see the future of my language in the same way – that it can be taught.