Marain
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Marain is a constructed language used by the fictional Culture of Iain M. Banks . The Culture believes (or perhaps has proved) the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that language affects society, and Marain was designed by the Culture's hyperintelligent Minds to exploit this effect. A related comment is made by the narrator in The Player of Games regarding gender-specific pronouns in English. Marain is also regarded as an aesthetically pleasing language and functionally beautiful by all those who use it.
External links
- Notes on Marain, the language of The Culture (by Iain Banks) (http://homepages.compuserve.de/Mostral/artikel/marain.html)