Aklo
Aklo is the name of a fictional language that has been used by many authors from its first reference in 1899.[1] The language is said to have mystical powers.[1][2]
Aklo was first mentioned by Arthur Machen[2] in his 1899 story "The White People".[1][3] Aklo was mentioned but not described in detail by Machen, being noted in passing by the story's narrator as part of a secretive game or ritual.
H. P. Lovecraft admired the Machen story, and used Aklo[4] in his Cthulhu Mythos stories[2] "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Haunter of the Dark".[1] The authors who have used Aklo have played into the fiction that the language has magical powers, and so have not included much detail to prevent "some careless reader from incant[ing] a spell capable of calling forth evil".[1]
In The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Aklo appears as a language[1] used in Black Masses and by the Illuminati.
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- ^ a b c d e f g The Dictionary of Made-Up Languages By Stephen D. Rogers Archived 2013-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c The List: Five fictional languages James Lovegrove Financial Times April 15, 2011
- ^ Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages By Stephen Cain. Greenwood
- ^ Lovecraft Lexicon Anthony Pearsall. New Falcon Publications
- ^ The Shadow Over Northampton: The Transmogrification Of The Lovecraft Mythos By Alan Moore Daniel L. Werneck
- ^ "Linguistics". Paizo. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
