Highlighted Research Seminar Projects: Atlan

Dear students,

While some of you are most likely working on your projects for the HHP Research Seminar, we would like to highlight some of the projects from last year. In a series of upcoming blog posts we will share the experiences of students working on their projects. These stories will hopefully motivate and inspire you in the following weeks. If you would like to read about other projects for yourself from 2023 or earlier, you can find them under ‘Research Archive’ on this website. 

Today’s post will be about Atlan: a constructed language created by six students during the Research Seminar. The main ideas behind the language were: neutrality, non-ambiguity and resourcefulness. You can find a link to their website below with translated texts and resources to learn the language yourself.

“We started out with an ambitious idea in mind: creating our own conlang, a constructed language. One of us came up with the idea of making a less Euro-centric version of Esperanto, roughly. Our group was very diverse: we had students from Philosophy, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Literature -a combination very fit for our project. We started working on it from the very start of block 3: making a word-generator, forming a script, thinking through syntax. It all culminated in a book, which contained both the theory and the practice of our conlang, coined Atlan. The project is still going; some of us are further polishing the conlang.”

Do you want to learn more about this final project? Go to Atlan Language (atlanial.com)