Constructing Languages

This paper focusses on multilingualism and language diversity from the point of view of speakers and, more specifically, of language autobiographies. It analyses the thoughts and feelings about languages of two speakers and their biographical experiences related to multilingual collective societies. In one case, a multilingual speaker gauges the languages he has learnt and spoken throughout different periods of his life, and claims the need for a shelter-language. In the other case, a speaker fr