青い人語 or 青い人の言語?


If you wanted to make up a certain people and talk about their
language/culture.

Would you use 青い人語 or 青い人の言語?

And how would you pronounce the first example? 「あおいひとご」 or 「あおいじんご」？

What about examples with already existing things? 犬語、本語、 etc. ?




Think of 語 as a suffix similar to _-ese_ (as in Japanese and Cantonese).
Unlike English _-ese_ , it can attach to almost any noun, but you're basically
coining a new word that refers to a unique language by doing so. On the other
hand, Aの言語 is a phrase that are made of several words and means "language of
A" or "language spoken by A".

犬語 ("dogese") is not a word listed in a dictionary, but it can be a valid
expression if dogs in your fictional work form a community and speak a
distinct language. If dogs speak English and can communicate with humans using
English, 犬語は英語だ ("Dogese is English") makes no sense, and you have to say
something like この世界の犬の言語は英語だ ("The language of dogs in this world is English")
instead. 本語 ("bookese") may be valid if you're thinking of a fantasy world
where books have a mouth and speak to one anther using a special language, but
I personally have never seen a setting like this.

(I also feel 青い人 is probably not what you want as the name for a specific
tribe/species, but it's a different story. You may be interested in [this
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/59996/5010).)

