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| x Sindarin |
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
Sindarin is an artificial language developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. In Tolkien's mythos, it was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth in the Third Age. It was the language of the Sindar, those Teleri which had been left behind on...
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| x Idiom Neutral | 1902 | Waldemar Rosenberger |
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...
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| x Novial |
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1928 |
Novial [nov- ("new") + IAL, International Auxiliary Language] is a constructed international auxiliary language (IAL) intended to facilitate international communication and friendship, without displacing anyone's native language. It was devised by...
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| x Glosa |
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Glosa is an international auxiliary language (sometimes called an auxlang or an "IAL").
It is an "isolating" language - there are no inflections, so that words remain always in their original form, no matter what function they have in the sentence....
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| x Interlingua Language |
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1951 |
Interlingua (ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an international auxiliary language (IAL), developed between 1937 and 1951 by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It is the second or third most widely used IAL (after Esperanto...
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| x Adjuvilo | 1908 |
Adjuvilo is a language created in 1908 by Claudius Colas under the pseudonym of "Profesoro V. Esperema". Although it was a full language, it may not have been created to be spoken. Many believe that as an Esperantist, Colas created Adjuvilo to help...
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| x Babm | 1962 |
Babm (pronounced [bɔʔɑbɔmu]) is an international auxiliary language created by the Japanese philosopher Rikichi [Fuishiki] Okamoto (1885–1963). Okamoto first published the language in a 1962 book, but the language has not caught on even within the...
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| x Esperanto II |
Esperanto II was a reform of Esperanto proposed by René de Saussure in 1937, the last of a long series of such proposals beginning with a 1907 response to Ido later called Antido 1. Esperanto II was one of several languages investigated by the...
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| x Kotava | 1978 |
Kotava is a proposed international auxiliary language (IAL) that focuses especially on the principle of cultural neutrality. The name means "the language of one and all," and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and...
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| x Lingua Franca Nova | C. George Boeree |
Lingua Franca Nova (abbreviated LFN) is an auxiliary constructed language created by Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. Its vocabulary is based on French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. The grammar is highly...
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| x Lingua sistemfrater | 1957 |
Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed, in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Pham Xuan Thai. The grammar can be...
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| x Mondial |
Mondial is an international auxiliary language created by Dr. Helge Heimer, a Swede, in the 1940s. A well-developed project, it received favourable reviews from several academic linguists but achieved little practical success. Grammars and...
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| x Mundolinco | 1888 |
Mundolinco is a constructed language created by the Dutch author J. Braakman in 1888. It is notable for apparently being the first Esperantido, i.e. the first Esperanto derivative.
Major changes from Esperanto include combining the adjective and...
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| x Nuwaubic |
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Nuwaubic (sometimes “Nubic”, “Meroitic”, “Nuwaupic”, “Nuwaupik”, or “Napata”), is a constructed language and alphabet used by the Nuwaubian students of Malachi Z. York.
One source says:
But another source insists that the language is not of recent...
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| x Poliespo |
Poliespo (Polisinteza Esperanto) is an extension of Esperanto using Cherokee words created by Nvwtohiyada Idehesdi Sequoyah, also known as Billy Ray Waldon or Billy Joe Waldon, condemned to death in the United States for murder.
Nvwtohiyada believed...
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| x Solresol |
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François Sudre |
Solresol is an artificial language devised by François Sudre, beginning in 1827. He published his major book on it, Langue musicale universelle, in 1866, though he had already been publicizing it for some years. Solresol enjoyed a brief spell of...
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| x Sona language | 1935 | Kenneth Searight |
Sona is an international auxiliary language created by Kenneth Searight and described in a book he published in 1935. The word Sona in the language itself means "auxiliary neutral thing", but the name was also chosen to echo "sonority" or "sound"....
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| x 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...
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| x Toki Pona |
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2001 |
Toki Pona is a constructed language first published online in mid-2001. It was designed by translator and linguist Sonja Elen Kisa of Toronto.
Toki Pona is a minimal language. Like a pidgin, it focuses on simple concepts and elements that are...
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| x Universalglot |
Universalglot is an a posteriori international auxiliary language published by the French linguist Jean Pirro in 1868 in Tentative d'une langue universelle, Enseignement, grammaire, vocabulaire. Predating Volapük by a decade and Esperanto by nearly...
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| x Earth Language | 1988 |
Earth Language(EL) is a visual language created by Yoshiko McFarland (born 1941). Words are conveyed through a series of 90 symbols or hand gestures, it cannot be spoken. The author believes that traditional language alone inhibits communication...
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| x Arahau |
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2006 |
Arahau (IPA: [araˈxau̯]) is an a priori constructed language created by Russian writer Ivan Karasev in 2006.
The Arahau language is polysynthetic and typologically active. This is unlike most constructed languages but not atypical of engineered...
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| x AUI | 1962 |
aUI is a constructed language credited to John W. Weilgart, created in the beginning of the 1960s. Because of its structure it is classified as a logical language or philosophical language.
aUI first appeared in the 1962 publication "aUI: The...
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| x Ithkuil |
Ithkuil is a constructed human language marked by outstanding grammatical complexity, expressed with a rich phonemic inventory or through an original, graphically structured, system of writing.
The language’s author, John Quijada, presents Ithkuil...
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| x Láadan | 1982 | Suzette Haden Elgin |
Láadan is a constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, specifically to determine if development of a language aimed at expressing the views of women would shape a culture; a subsidiary hypothesis...
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| x Loglan | 1955 | James Cooke Brown |
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...
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| x Lojban | 1987 |
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...
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| x Ro |
Ro is an a priori constructed language created by Rev. Edward Powell Foster beginning in 1904. In Ro, words are constructed using a category system. For example, the word for red is "bofoc", and yellow is "bofof". All words starting with "bofo-"...
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| x Teonaht | 1962 | Sally Caves |
Teonaht (pronounced /ˈteɪ.oʊnɑːθ/) is a constructed language that has been developed since 1962 by science fiction writer and University of Rochester English professor Sarah Higley, under the pseudonym of Sally Caves. It is spoken in the fantasy...
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| x Talossan language |
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1985 |
The Talossan language (El Glheþ Talossan) is a constructed language created by R. Ben Madison in 1980 for the micronation he founded, the Kingdom of Talossa.
Talossan is the best-known example of the micronational language genre of conlang. The...
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| x Adûnaic | J. R. R. Tolkien |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Adûnaic ("language of the west") was the language of the Men of Númenor during the Second Age.
Adûnaic derived from the closely related Bëorian and Hadorian dialects of Taliska, the language spoken by the first...
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| x Quenya |
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷɛɲa]) is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves (the Quendi, "those who speak with voices" because when they first awoke they were the only creatures they knew who used words to speak), in the fantasy works of J. R...
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| x Blissymbols |
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1949 |
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics were conceived of as an ideographic writing system consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols...
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| x Westron | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Westron, or the Common Speech, is an artificial language developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. In Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, Westron is the closest thing to a universal language in Middle-earth, at least at the time during which The Lord of the...
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| x Proto-Esperanto | L. L. Zamenhof |
Proto-Esperanto (or pra-Esperanto in the language itself) is the modern term for any of the stages in the evolution of L. L. Zamenhof's language project, prior to the publication of his Unua Libro in 1887.
As a child, Zamenhof had the idea to...
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| x Arcaicam Esperantom |
Arcaicam Esperantom ("Archaic Esperanto") is a constructed language created to act as a fictional 'Old Esperanto,' in the vein of languages such as Old English or the use of Latin citations in modern texts. It was created by Manuel Halvelik as part...
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| x Noxilo language |
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1997 |
Noxilo (Japanese: ノシロ語 [noɕiɽoɡo]) is an international auxiliary language, created by Mizuta Sentaro (水田 扇太郎 mizuta sentarō). In 1997 he published a book outlining the language, and presented it on his website. He claims it was created to address...
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| x Barmoodan |
Barmoodan is a constructed language created by the "Water poet", John Taylor. Taylor claims to have translated work in Barmoodan into the fictional Utopian language.
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| x Afrihili | 1970 |
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...
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| x Atlantean language |
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Marc Okrand |
The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended as a possible "mother language" and was therefore invented to have Indo-European word stock with its own...
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| x Klingon language |
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1984 | Marc Okrand |
The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon features. The language's...
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| x Basic English | Charles Kay Ogden |
Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created by Charles Kay Ogden (in essence a simplified subset of English) as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second...
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| x Khuzdul | 1940 | J. R. R. Tolkien |
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...
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| x Rohirric | J. R. R. Tolkien |
In the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, Rohirric (also Rohirian and Rohanese, see below) is the language of the Rohirrim of Rohan.
In the novels it is always represented by Old English because Tolkien saw the relationship between...
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| x Taliska | J. R. R. Tolkien |
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Taliska was the language spoken by the Bëorian (First) and Hadorian (Third) Houses of the Atanatári, who spoke different dialects.
The Second House of Men spoke an unrelated language, the Haladin tongue. This...
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| x Entish | J. R. R. Tolkien |
Entish is the language of the Ents in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Ents are not hasty creatures; they take their time. Even their language is "unhasty". In fact, their language appears to be based on an ancient form of Common Eldarin, later...
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| x Valarin | J. R. R. Tolkien |
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Valarin is the tongue of the Ainur. As angelic beings with the ability to communicate through thought, strictly speaking the Valar had no need for a spoken language, but it appears that it...
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| x Black Speech | J. R. R. Tolkien |
The Black Speech is the fictional language of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings. Sauron created the Black Speech, as an artificial language, to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor, replacing the many different varieties of Orkish and...
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| x Volapük |
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Johann Martin Schleyer |
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...
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1961 | Arturo Alfandari |
Neo is an international auxiliary language created by a Belgian diplomat of Italian descent Arturo Alfandari.
The first draft was published in 1937 by Arturo Alfandari but attracted wider attention in 1961 when Alfandari published his books Cours...
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| x Ido |
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1907 | Louis de Beaufront |
Ido (pronounced /ˈiːdoʊ/) is a constructed language created with the goal of becoming a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds as a language easier to learn than ethnic languages. Unlike English, which is a...
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| x Chorukor | Václav Havel |
Chorukor is a fictional artificial language featuring in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. At...
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| x Ptydepe | Václav Havel |
Ptydepe is a fictional artificial language featuring in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. In...
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| x Baronh |
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Hiroyuki Morioka |
Baronh is an artificial language created by Japanese science fiction author Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars. The name Baronh means "language of the Abh".
The Baronh language is derived from the ancient...
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| x Gargish | Herman Miller |
Gargish is the fictional language used by the gargoyle race in the Ultima computer game series. It is also the language used in magic spellcasting within the game. The language is remarkably complex for one that arose out of a game. However, the...
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| x Kalaba-X | Kenneth L. Pike |
Kalaba-X is a simple constructed language created by the American linguist Kenneth L. Pike to help with the teaching of translation techniques.
Each sentence in Kalaba-X has a fixed structure, consisting of three sentence parts: verb, object,...
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| x Occidental language | Edgar de Wahl |
The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Balto-German naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922.
Occidental is devised with great care to ensure that many of its derived word forms reflect...
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| x Bolak |
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1899 | Léon Bollack |
Bolak is a constructed language that was invented by Léon Bollack. The name of the language means both `blue language' and `ingenious creation' in the language itself.
Bollack wrote three books on this language. In 1899, the first work on this...
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| x Europanto Language | 1996 | Diego Marani |
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...
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| x Tutonish |
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Elias Molee |
Tutonish (also called Teutonish, Teutonik, Allteutonish, Altutonish, Alteutonik, Nu Teutonish, Neuteutonish) is a constructed language by Elias Molee. He worked on it for several years before publishing it for the first time in 1902. He reformed it...
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