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The Ascian Language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his fantasy series ''The Book of the New Sun''.〔Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun, Volume 4 (The Citadel of the Autarch), ISBN 1-85798-700-4〕 The language is spoken by the inhabitants of the “northern continents” of the future earth, the ''Ascians'', who are enslaved by their masters (the ''Group of Seventeen'') in a way much like the people of Oceania in George Orwell's book ''1984''. ==The language== The Ascian language consists of two levels: On the low level it is just an ordinary language, of whose syntax, grammar and vocabulary virtually nothing is known. What makes the language unique is the second level. Although Ascian is their mother tongue, adult Ascians don't understand plain Ascian sentences, unless they are direct quotations from governmental propaganda materials (called ''Correct Thought''). So, in order to communicate, an Ascian has to know by heart thousands of these quotations (sentences) on many different topics. As the northern continents are at war with the southern ''Commonwealth'' (where most protagonists of the books live), there are interpreters in the Ascian army to interrogate prisoners. These speak the language of the Commonwealth, but as they are unable to think outside the approved texts, what they say is just literal translations of the Ascian approved sentences. A very similar concept of a language is presented in the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode "Darmok" from 1991. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ascian language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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