Lapine language residential dormitories within Ohio State University. Other authors, such as Patrick Jemmer (who corresponded briefly with Adams regarding the Lapine language), have made large-scale 'recreations' of various possible historical stages of the language. Jemmer's work documents the evolution of numerous inter-related languages (the process of development and analysis is called 'aleolinguistics'). It contains comprehensive syntax for each linguistic stage (or 'aleostate'), and vocabularies involving approximately 2000 lexemes. Sample scripts and comparative texts are available. Lapine language Lapine is a fictional language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 novel "Watership Down", where it is spoken by rabbit characters. The
Silverwing (novel) Silverwing (novel) Silverwing is a best-selling children's novel, written by Kenneth Oppel, first published in 1997 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of a colony of silverwing bats. The tone and artistic ambition of this series of bestsellers has been compared to the classic animal novel "Watership Down". "Silverwing" is the first installment of the Silverwing series, though it is chronologically the second novel in the sequence after "Darkwing". Shade is a young Silverwing bat whose father disappeared before he was born. He lives with his mother Ariel and is bullied by other newborns, especially Chinook and his friends, for