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| x L. L. Zamenhof |
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Proto-Esperanto |
Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof (pronounced /ˈzɑːmɨnhɒf/ in English; born Eliezer Levi Samenhof, December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international...
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| x Marc Okrand |
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Atlantean language |
Marc Okrand (born 1948) (pronounced /mɑrk ˈoʊkrænd/) is an American linguist and is most notable as the creator of the Klingon language.
Okrand worked with Native American languages. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California,...
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| x Charles Kay Ogden | Basic English |
Charles Kay Ogden (1 June 1889 Fleetwood, Lancashire – 21 March 1957 London) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer.
He is now mostly remembered as the inventor and propagator of Basic English, his primary activity from 1925 until his...
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| x J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Khuzdul |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in General American also /ˈtoʊlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy...
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| x Suzette Haden Elgin | Láadan |
Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Elgin is also a linguist; she publishes non...
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| x C. George Boeree | Lingua Franca Nova |
Dr. C. George Boeree (born January 15, 1952 in the Netherlands) is a professor of psychology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. He came to the United States as a boy, and grew up in the New York City area. He and Judith Kovarik married in...
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| x Johann Martin Schleyer |
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Volapük |
Johann Martin Schleyer (July 18, 1831–August 16, 1912), German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. His official name was "Martin Schleyer"; he added the name "Johann" (in honor of his godfather) unofficially.
He was born...
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| x Arturo Alfandari |
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Neo |
Arturo Alfandari (born June 8, 1888, died May 1, 1969) was a Belgian diplomat, known as the creator of the language Neo.
Originally from Italy, in the First World War he served as a cipher officer for the Italian High Command. After the war he...
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| x Louis de Beaufront |
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Ido |
Marquis Louis de Beaufront (3 October 1855 – 8 January 1935) was a major influence in the development of Ido, an international auxiliary language. Beaufront was initially an advocate of Esperanto and was largely responsible for its early diffusion...
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| x James Cooke Brown | Loglan |
Dr. James Cooke Brown (July 21, 1921 – February 13, 2000) was a sociologist and science fiction author. He is notable for creating the artificial language Loglan and for designing the Parker Brothers board game Careers.
Brown's novel The Troika...
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| x Sally Caves | Teonaht |
Sally Caves is the pen name of Sarah Higley, a science fiction writer and professor of English at the University of Rochester. She is best known for creating the Star Trek character Reginald Barclay.
Caves wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation...
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| x Václav Havel |
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Chorukor |
Václav Havel ([ˈvaːtslaf ˈɦavɛl] ( listen)) (born 5 October 1936 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech playwright, essayist, former dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the...
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| x Hiroyuki Morioka |
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Baronh |
Hiroyuki Morioka (森岡 浩之, Morioka Hiroyuki) (born March 2, 1962, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese sci-fi novelist.
In 1992, his first novel Yume no ki ga tsugeta nara ("If Only the Dream Trees Could Touch") appeared in Hayakawa Shobo (Tokyo)'s...
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| x Herman Miller | Gargish |
Herman Miller is a prolific creator of constructed languages and artificial scripts.
He created the language Gargish for the Ultima computer game series, and was also one of the programmers and musicians who participated in their creation.
His...
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| x Kenneth L. Pike | Kalaba-X |
Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912–December 31, 2000), also known during his life as Ken Pike, was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics and coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic".
Pike was born in...
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| x Waldemar Rosenberger | Idiom Neutral |
Waldemar Rosenberger, (Russian: Владимир Карлович Розенбергер, Vladimir Karlovich Rozenberger, 1848 - 1918) from Saint Petersburg, Russia, became director of the Volapük Academy in 1892. Under his leadership, the Academy began to experiment more...
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| x Kenneth Searight | Sona language |
Kenneth Searight (born Arthur Kenneth Searight) (December, 1883 - 1957) was the creator of the international auxiliary language Sona. His book Sona; an auxiliary neutral language outlines the language's grammar and vocabulary. Encounters with...
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| x Edgar de Wahl |
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Occidental language |
Edgar von Wahl or Edgar de Wahl (born August 11, 1867 in Olwiopol, Russian Empire (now Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine); died in 1948 in Estonia) was a teacher and creator of the language Occidental. An Estonian of ethnic Baltic German origin,...
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| x Léon Bollack | Bolak |
Léon Bollack was a rich French trader who created The Blue Language or Bolak in 1899. After a few years, he joined the Ido movement; it is possible that the blue color of the Ido flag was his proposal. He uttered the phrase: "It seems to me that...
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| x Diego Marani | Europanto Language |
Diego Marani (born 1959 in Ferrara) is an Italian novelist, translator, and newspaper columnist. In 1996, while working as a translator for the Council of the European Union, he invented Europanto, a mock international auxiliary language. Marani has...
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| x Elias Molee |
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Tutonish |
Elias Molee (January 3, 1845 - September 27, 1928) was an American journalist, philologist and linguist.
Elias Molee was born in Muskego, Wisconsin, the son of John Evenson Molie and Anne Jacobson Einong. The original spelling of the family name was...
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| x Paul Steiner | Pasilingua |
Peter Steiner was a volapükist from Nuremberg, Germany (although some other sources claim that he was a high school teacher in Saverne. He was active in the Volapük movement, but ot one point quit and in 1885 created his own constructed language,...
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| x François Sudre | Solresol |
Jean-François Sudre was a French author and musician born in Albi, France in 1787 and died in Paris in 1862.
He is best known for his work on developing a musical language called Solresol.
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