By Camilla Garrison

The Harbor Pond Post published an article on April 27, 2024, featuring a language called CHACHA being upgraded to typewriter without any information on who this “CHACHA” was, or where they came from. Well in this article, I’ll backtrack, and fill in the blanks about CHACHA.

In December of 2022, young language enthusiast, Camilla Garrison began to create a language of her very own: CHACHA. CHACHA is a constructed language (or conlang) that has its own writing system, vocabulary and follows an OSV (object-subject-verb) sentence structure. For example: “I see the purple bed.” would translate to “purple bed I see.” in CHACHA. Garrison started off with making up words that sounded pleasing, but as the language grew, compound words could be formed combining many little words to create one that might have a very complicated meaning like a dream, the solar system or a cell phone! Many notebooks were filled, and Garrison enjoyed translating simple picture books to practice.

Ask any adult and I guarantee they had a silly little secret language growing up. That’s how CHACHA started off, but after a little while it morphed into a more serious thing. Even the inventor herself didn’t know what she was getting into at first.

How’s CHACHA going now? After a little more than two years off and on, it’s still a developing language and since not all of it’s grammar rules are solid, Garrison is not fluent in CHACHA, but has high hopes, and does know most of the documented words. It is also an ever lasting process of making sure each word is written down in specific lists and notebooks, Garrison has one original notebook, full, but has every bit of knowledge recorded. She is also currently working on one colorful, organized, reader-friendly master notebook to preserve the information (pictured below).