Káma Means Hello

Káma Means Hello is a short story about language contact. It follows two young women from different cultures who speak different languages and unexpectedly meet each other after one is driven from her home. In lieu of using real-world languages with real-world cultural connotations, the two main characters speak two different constructed languages, and the narrative both examines language contact from a technical standpoint and tells the gay love story of two women meeting behind their families' backs. Káma Means Hello was a passion project of the author, who is both a lesbian and a linguist. The appendix of the story discusses how the two languages were made and why one would construct a language to begin with.