WHO SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF THE STARS
—DICTIONARY ENGLISH/LADAN
"Láadan: The language of those who perceive." Hot Wire, page 14, March 1986.
Language that was constructed in 1982 by Suzette Haden Elgin. She built Láadan to explore the idea of an “undefinable other reality” that we have no vocabulary for. As a science fiction author, she knew of stories that were “Matriarchies” and “Androgynous” presented as an alternative to our traditionally Patriarchal society, but she wondered about some third alternative, where it wasn't a fight between men vs. women for power, but something else completely.
The typeface used in this project is "Elisabeth ND", one of the first typefaces designed by a woman, named Elisabeth Friedlander.
