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Portal:Constructed languages
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An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. Some are designed for use in human communication (usually to function as international auxiliary languages), but others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experimentation, secrecy (codes), or for the experience of doing so (artistic languages, language games). These languages are sometimes associated with constructed worlds.
The synonym planned language is sometimes used when referring to international auxiliary languages, and by those who may object to the more common term "artificial". Some speakers of Esperanto avoid the term "artificial language" because they feel that it portrays the language as "unnatural". However, outside the Esperanto community the term language planning refers to prescriptive measures taken regarding a natural language. In this regard, even "natural languages" may be submitted to a certain amount of artificiality, and in the case of regularized grammars, the line is difficult to draw.
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Constructed language types
A priori language, Artificial script, Artistic language, Constructed language, Controlled language, Engineered language, International auxiliary language, Language game, Logical language, Musical language, Oligosynthetic language, Pivot language, Relexification, Universal language, Whistled language
General language types
Agglutinative language, Analytic language, Inflectional language, Fusional language, Isolating language, Polysynthetic language, Synthetic language
See also: List of constructed languages
International auxiliary languages
Languages: Adjuvilo, Afrihili, Babm, Basic English, Communicationssprache, Dutton Speedwords, Esata, Esperanto, Esperanto II, Eurolengo, Europanto, Fasile, Folkspraak, Globish, Glosa, Idiom Neutral, Ido, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latino sine flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lingua sistemfrater, Mondial, Mondlango, Mundolinco, Neo, Novial, Occidental, Poliespo, Románico, Romanova, Semitish, Solresol, Sona, Spokil, Toki Pona, Universalglot, Volapük
Creators: Louis de Beaufront, Louis Couturat, René Descartes, Reginald J. G. Dutton, Alexander Gode, Otto Jespersen, Arie de Jong, Léopold Leau, Diego Marani, Charles Kay Ogden, Giuseppe Peano, Waldemar Rosenberger, Johann Martin Schleyer, Kenneth Searight, François Sudre, Edgar de Wahl, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
See also: Arcaicam Esperantom, Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale, Esperantido, Esperanto and Ido compared, Esperanto and Interlingua compared, Germanic IAL, IALA, Proto-Esperanto, Reformed Esperanto
Logical, philosophical, and engineered languages
Languages: An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, aUI, Blissymbol, Ceqli, Characteristica universalis, CycL, Gibson Code, Ithkuil, Kalaba-X, Láadan, Lincos, Loglan, Lojban, Loom, Ro, Vorlin
Creators: James Cooke Brown, George Dalgarno, Hans Freudenthal, Gottfried Leibniz, Francis Lodwick, Kenneth L. Pike, John Wilkins
Artistic and fictional languages
Languages: Adûnaic, Aklo, Al Bhed, Alltongue, Ascian, Atlantean, Aulëan, Babel-17, Balaibalan, Baronh, Black Speech, Bluddian, Brithenig, Chakobsa, Cirquish, Darkovan, D'ni, Doriathrin, Drac, Enchanta, Enochian, Galach, Gargish, Gippog, Glide, Gnommish, Goa'uld, Hardic, Huttese, Interlac, Iotic, Kēlen, Khuzdul, Klingon, Klingonaase, Koalang, Ku, The Languages of Pao, Lapine, The Lexicon of Comicana, Lingua Ignota, Linguacode, Loxian, Mandalorian, Mangani, Marain, Mezangelle, Nadsat, Newspeak, Old Tongue, Or'zet, Pravic, Ptydepe, Quenya, Rihannsu, Sarus, Shyriiwook, Simlish, Sindarin, Speedtalk, Sperethiel, Starckdeutsch, Stark, Starsza Mowa, Strine, Talossan, Telerin, Teonaht, The Speech, Tho Fan, Tsolyáni, Unas, Utopian, Vendergood, Verdurian, Wenedyk, Zaum
Scripts: Aurebesh, Cirth, Tengwar
Creators: Richard Adams, Anthony Burgess, Sally Caves, Samuel Delany, Diane Duane, Suzette Haden Elgin, Václav Havel, Frank Herbert, Hergé, Ursula K. LeGuin, Barry B. Longyear, Herman Miller, Morioka Hiroyuki, George Orwell, Marc Okrand, Mark Rosenfelder, David Salo, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christian Vander, Xul Solar, Marion Zimmer Bradley
See also: Alien language, Codex Seraphinianus, Elvish languages, False writing system, Languages in Star Wars, Languages of Arda, Languages of Middle-earth, North Slavic languages
Constructed languages for special uses
Languages: Boontling, Damin, Gestuno, High Icelandic, Iazychie, Nuwaubic, Polari, Signuno, Tadoma, Yerkish
See also: Voynich manuscript
Constructed writing systems for natural languages
Writing systems: Cherokee syllabary, Cree syllabics, Deseret alphabet, Hangul, Landsmål, Nynorsk, Shavian alphabet
Creators: Ivar Aasen, James Evans, William Fulco, Ronald Kingsley Read, Heinrich Schmid, Sequoyah
Miscellaneous
A Secret Vice, Conlanger, Ill Bethisad, Langmaker, Language Construction Kit, Language planning, Language reform, Zompist.com
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