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| Sindarin |
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Human Language |
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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| Idiom Neutral | Human Language | 1902 |
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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| Novial |
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Human Language | 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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| Glosa |
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Human Language |
Glosa is an isolating international auxiliary language (sometimes called an auxlang or an "IAL"). "Isolating" means that there are no inflection - words remain always in their original form, no matter what function they have in the sentence. However...
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| Interlingua |
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Human Language | 1951 |
Interlingua 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 and, perhaps, Ido). It is the most...
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| Adjuvilo | Human Language | 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 was never created to be spoken. An Esperantist, Colas created Adjuvilo to help create dissent in the then...
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| Afrihili | Human Language | 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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| Babm | Human Language | 1962 |
Babm 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 constructed language...
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| Esperanto II | Human Language |
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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| Kotava | Human Language | 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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| Lingua Franca Nova | Human Language |
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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| Lingua sistemfrater | Human Language | 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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| Mondial | Human Language |
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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| Mundolinco | Human Language | 1888 |
Mundolinco is a constructed language created by the Dutch author J. Braakman in 1888. It is notable for apparently being the first Esperantido.
Major changes from Esperanto include combining the adjective and adverb with the grammatical ending -e ...
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| Nuwaubic |
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Human Language |
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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| Poliespo | Human Language |
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...
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| Solresol |
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Human Language |
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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| Sona language | Human Language |
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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| Spokil | Human Language |
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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| Toki Pona |
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Human Language | 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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| Universalglot | Human Language |
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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| Earth Language | Human 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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| Arahau |
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Human Language | 2006 |
Arahau 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 language but not atypical of engineered language. Each vowel...
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| AUI | Human Language | 1962 |
aUI is a constructed language credited to John W. Weilgart, created in the beginning of the 1960s. Because of its structure it is clasified as a logical language or philosophical language.
aUI first appeared in the 1962 publication "aUI: The...
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| Ithkuil | Human Language |
Ithkuil, with its variation called Ilaksh, is a constructed human language marked by outstanding grammatical complexity and an innovative system of writing.
The language’s author, John Quijada, presents Ithkuil as a cross between an a priori...
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| Láadan | Human Language | 1982 |
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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| Loglan | Human Language | 1955 |
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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| Lojban | Human Language | 1987 |
Lojban 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...
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| Ro | Human Language |
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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| Teonaht | Human Language | 1962 |
Teonaht 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 setting of the Teonim, a race...
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| Talossan language |
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Human Language | 1985 |
The Talossan language (El Glheþ Talossán/El Glheþ Talossan) is a constructed language created by R. Ben Madison for the micronation he founded, the Kingdom of Talossa. It's also the official language in the other Talossan micronation which split off...
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| Adûnaic | Human Language |
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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| Quenya |
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Human Language |
Quenya 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. R. Tolkien. It was...
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| Blissymbols |
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Human Language | 1949 |
Blissymbols or Blissymbolics were conceived of as an ideographic writing system consisting of several hundred basic symbol, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. Blissymbols...
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| Westron | Human Language |
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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| Proto-Esperanto | Human Language | 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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| Arcaicam Esperantom | Human Language |
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 citation in modern texts. It was created by Manuel Halvelik as part...
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| Noxilo language |
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Human Language | 1997 |
Noxilo (Japanese: ノシロ語 [noshilo-go]) is an international auxiliary language, created by Mizta Sentaro (水田 扇太郎 [miz(u)ta sentarō]; Hepburn:MIZUTA Sentaro). In 1997 he published a book outlining the language, and presented it on his website. He claims...
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| Barmoodan | Human Language |
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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