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  Esperanto Language

  Esperanto is the most widely-spoken constructed international auxiliary language.  The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof first published Unua Libro (First Book), the first book describing Esperanto.  The word "esperanto" means "one...
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  Volapük

  Volapük (pronounced [volaˈpyk], English: /ˈvɒləpʊk/) is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. Schleyer felt that God had told him in a dream to create an international language. Volapük conventions took place in 1884 ...

• Lojban

  Lojban (pronounced [ˈloʒban]) is a constructed, syntactically unambiguous human language based on predicate logic. Its predecessor is Loglan, the original logical language by James Cooke Brown. Development of the language began in 1987 by The Logical Language Group (LLG), who intended to realize...

• Loglan

  Loglan is a constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, particularly for investigating the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning...

• Afrihili

  Afrihili is a constructed language designed in 1970 by K. A. Kumi Attobrah to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa. The name of the language is a combination of Africa and Swahili. The author, a native of Akrokerri in Ghana, originally conceived of the idea in 1967 while on a sea voyage from...

• Europanto Language

  Europanto is a linguistic jest presented as a "constructed language" with a hodge-podge vocabulary from many European languages. It was created in 1996 by Diego Marani, a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels. Marani created it in response to the...

• Idiom Neutral

  Idiom Neutral is an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language (Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal) under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. Petersburg engineer. The Academy, created under the name Kadem bevünetik...

• Spokil

    Spokil is a constructed language, created by the Frenchman Adolphe Nicolas. During the 1880s, the most popular international auxiliary language was undeniably Volapük. However, after a brief period of overwhelming success, rivalry on the part of the more practical and less complicated Esperanto ...

• Khuzdul

  Khuzdul is the language of the Dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction of Middle-earth. Khuzdul is usually written with the Cirth script. It appears to be based, like the Semitic languages, on triconsonantal roots: kh-z-d, b-n-d, z-g-l. Little is known of Khuzdul, as the Dwarves kept it to themselves...