Nyumarian

Created by Tony Bark, Nyumarian is a constructed language in the form of a proto-language that his blue fennec species speak using barks. The idea was formed based on a thought experiment: what if Morse code is an advanced form of how humans might have spoken with grunts?

Nyumarian blends Morse code with barks and glowing markings. A short bark is equivalent to a dot, and a long bark is a dash, with glowing flashes acting as punctuation or modifiers. Tony adapted Quipu, an early “written” language using strings, to explain some of its real-life mysteries: a single knot is a dot, a double knot is a dash, and spacing represents pauses.

Background

Tony Bark has been developing constructed languages for a long time. After having scheduled an introduction to his blue fennec species in one of his Telegram channels, the idea of using Morse code as a basis for a fictional proto-language came when a bunch of dogs were barking at night as he was about to go to bed. As he was going to bed, he came up with the thought experiment that maybe the barking was like Morse code. Tony first purposed the idea for a variety of GPT bots, ranging from ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama 3, to get different perspectives. While all three pitched similar ideas of a fictional proto-language after presenting the initial thought experiment, ChatGPT came up with the “Nyumari” name.