Has anyone here ever made up their own language before?

Me and my cousins made a language and have been speaking it for 5 years. We started off by making subjucts. Make words for: I, you, he/she we, you all, and they. With those words you can add them to any verb u want to create. U can put the subject before the verb, after the verb, or, to be more creative inside a verb some how. When you make verbs, don't just make straight translations from english. What I mean is make a verb that doesn't exsist in english. (Ex: me ñaamaa= I'm eating/ me giokaa= I'm eating dinner). Put more meaning into your verbs! Also tenses. Past present future conditional. You can change the way u say the verb(ex: me ñaameka) or u can change the way u say the subject (ex: han ñaam/ I will eat). Also people who we teach try to use "I'm going to eat" to imply future tense. U have the choice if that makes sense or not. In the language we made "me retaa ñaam" means your in the process of going to eat as in walking to your destination. Make words for: for, and, nor, but or, yet, so. You can make words for that and these and those but in our language we just use 3rd person "oxe" to refer to things. Also u can make diferences between that and that. Ex: "that" car is clean (and) I'm going to the club "that" I went to last year. Make words for articles like "the" and "a". Make a number system. Make nouns. Make plural versions of nouns. Last tip... BE CREATIVE!!! Make sayings specific to ur language. Ex: in my language when someone says how are u? I would say I'm a bird and your family? We're birds. Make up stuff like that. If you have futher questions on your language I would love to see how it comes along. My email is lustar529@yahoo.com p.s. you must have someone to speak it with and practice.

Yes, J.R.R Tolkien. Tolkien was not only an author who wrote ficitonal Middle Earth books, but he also a linguist. His revolutionary knowledge of languages allowed him to create the names of cities and names of characters. He also created the Elvish, Sindarin and Quenya languages.

Some of the Gondorian characters like Borimir and Faramir were influenced by the Russian language. Sindarin was the language of Gondor. In Sindarian "mir" means "jewel" or "prestige". In Russian it means almost the same thing, "peace" or "glory". Faramir and Borimir has affinity to existing Russian names like VladiMIR, ValaMIR, DragoMIR and what not.

Names like the Kings of Harad and Harad-drim were influenced by Arabic and Persian languages. The Elvish language I think had a lot of German, Norse and Nordic influenced into it.

Yes, Tolkien was a pure genius.

Making up and speaking a language? This is my type of question!

I've tried doing lots of different options. But the only notable one, is the one where I wanted to make it more of something me and close friends/family could speak.

I was sort of inspired by the way Mandarin Chinese is about verb tenses and wanted to make something with similar grammar to Mandarin, maybe nouns from adjectives from european languages and verbs from middle-eastern languages. Something like that, I never got very far with it though, but would like to :)

My suggestion, think of what you want out of your constructed language, musicality, guttural sounds, cool writing, complex grammar, something to speak with friends? Then go from there. Look at some ancient languages and some modern ones and foreign ones and exotic ones!

probably every lanugage we speak now was made up by a person, because every language was created from Latin, so....