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x Sindarin Sindarin,以昆雅談格瓦文字書寫   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...
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...
x Novial Novial flag 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...
x Glosa Glosa symbol      
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....
x Interlingua Language Map-Romance Language World 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
x Nuwaubic The Nuwaubic alphabet is incorporated into this album cover from the  Lost Children of Babylon      
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...
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...
x Solresol Sol-resol   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...
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"....
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...
x Toki Pona Symbol 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...
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...
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...
x Arahau Arahau flag 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-"...
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...
x Talossan language Flag of the Language 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...
x Quenya Text in Quenya, written in the Tengwar and Latin alphabets   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...
x Blissymbols blissymbols 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...
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...
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...
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...
x Noxilo language Noxilo alphabetg 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...
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.
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...
x Atlantean language The Atlantean alphabet.   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...
x Klingon language /wikipedia/images/en_id/5119751 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
x Volapük VolapukAOU   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...
x Neo Neo 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...
x Ido Ido seal 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...
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...
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...
x Baronh The Ath Alphabet, used to write Baronh   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...
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...
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,...
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...
x Bolak Bolak 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...
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...
x Tutonish A page from Alteutonik   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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