Constructed language

The term artificial or constructed language describes a language designed for human communication which was created by the work of one or more persons, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture. These are often created for a special purpose such as international communication, secrecy, use in fiction, or just linguistic experimentation.

Languages intended for general-purpose human use:

• Esperanto

• Ido

• Interlingua

• Lojban (and TLI Loglan)

• Novial

• Occidental (also known as Interlingue, not to be confused with Interlingua)

• Volapük

Languages intended for machine assisted automatic translation purposes:

• Lojban

• Lincos

Languages of fictional worlds and peoples:

• Newspeak

• Middle Earth languages: Sindarin, Quenya

• Klingon Language

• Láadan

Language games:

• Pig latin

• Ubbi dubbi

• Verlan

Types of artificial language

Basically artificial languages divide into the following groups:

• 'A priori' languages

• 'A posteriori' languages

• • Naturalistic a posteriori languages

• • Schematic a posteriori languages

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See also:

• Language translation

External links (others can be found on language pages):

• Conlang FAQ

• ConLang Yellow Pages

• Blueprints For Babel