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Do any of you have kids who have made up their own language? My DS4 has begun to talk in nonsense words. At first, I thought he was mimicking baby talk, but he told me it's an alien language from the planet Ziberton. He'll murmur to himself in this language while he's coloring, drawing or playing with legos. I've also heard "Zibertonian" come out of the mouth of his best friend from preschool, so he seems to be infecting others.

Yes! DS4 has a language he calls "his name language." (So if his name were Fred, he'd call it "Fred Language.")

He makes up words and tries to really use them. He's even got some basic rules of pronunciation/spelling and how to decide what to name things. His brother plays along, and they'll sometimes use words from "DS4 Language" to converse. I think it's hilarious!

Are you worried about it or amused?

LOL! My sister used to do this all the time - especially in public. It drove our parents batty. Ah the memories...
Sounds like a very active imagination. Wonderful! :-)

Our DS3 doesn't make up his own language but does talk in a rhyming/pig latin type of language. This was *before* we got Runny Babbit by Shel Silverstein. There we go encouraging our kids again

JB

I'm mostly amused, I guess, although it can be frustrating when he occasionally lapses into gibberish in front of kids or adults who don't know him well. They could easily mistake him for being slow rather than advanced, and I do see this as an extension of his advanced language skills. He's a sponge for language and has loved word play since he was 2. The other night, we read a chapter in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator where Willie Wonka talks in a nonsense alien language, and I swear I saw my son swoon. This was weeks after my son started his own language, and he thought it was the greatest thing ever. It gave me a new appreciation for Roald Dahl.

Have you introduced him to codes and ciphers? He might really enjoy simple ones, even at age 4. And maybe it's time to start teaching a foreign language. I keep thinking that about DS4...

Yeah, all this is making me more and more anxious for him to start a foreign language. He'll formally start Spanish when he starts kindergarten in the fall, but I'm thinking maybe I should start with the basics now.

MY DS6 language is Yubbanese. Derived from the planet Yubba which he will discover when he grows up and is an Astronomer.

It's nice that he knows the language already. That's very convenient!

Some of my friends at rio rancho mid-high have made a new language called "carnie". I not sure how to speak it that good.
I know that I is Ezi and Hippo would be Hezipezo. I think it's perfectly normal for gifted kids like myself to create languages.