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Welcome to the Wikiportal about Constructed languages!

A planned or constructed language — known colloquially or informally as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been consciously devised by an individual or group, instead of having evolved naturally. There are many possible reasons to create a constructed language: to ease human communication (see international auxiliary language and code); to bring fiction or an associated constructed world to life; linguistic experimentation; artistic creation; and language games.

The expression planned language is sometimes used to mean international auxiliary languages and other languages intended for actual use in human communication. Some prefer it to the more common terms "constructed", as that term may have pejorative connotations in some languages. Outside the Esperanto community, the term language planning means the prescriptions given to a natural language to standardize it; in this regard, even "natural languages" may be artificial in some respects. In the case of prescriptive grammars, where wholly artificial rules exist, the line is difficult to draw. The term "glossopoeia," coined by J. R. R. Tolkien, is also used to mean language construction, particularly construction of artistic languages.

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Language of the month (November)

Uropi is a constructed language which was created by Joël Landais, a French English teacher. Uropi is a synthesis of European languages, explicitly based on the common Indo-European roots and aims at being used as an auxiliary language for Europe and thus contributing to building a European identity. Besides, given the spread of Indo-European languages outside Europe (today half the world population speaks an I-E language), Uropi can also be considered as an international auxiliary language.

Uropi was initiated in 1983; since then, it has undergone certain modifications; its vocabulary keeps growing (the French-Uropi dictionary has over 10,000 words). Uropi became known in Europe in the early '90s. Find out more...

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Did you know...

...that the Marquis Louis de Beaufront, one of the creators of Ido, was not really a marquis?
...that two different constructed languages have claimed the name Interlingua, and one the name Interlingue?
...that Gottfried Leibniz was not only a famous scientist, but also the creator of a language named Characteristica universalis?

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Corresponding categories

[−] Constructed languages

[+] Artificial scripts

[+] Artistic languages

[+] Computer languages

[×] Constructed language multilingual support templates

[×] Constructed language organizations

[×] Constructed languages resources

[×] Controlled natural languages

[+] Engineered languages

[×] Esperanto dictionaries

[+] Formal languages

[×] Gibberish language

[+] International auxiliary languages

[+] Language creators

[×] Language games

[×] Pan-Slavic languages

[+] Reconstructed languages

[×] Voynich manuscript

[+] Constructed language stubs

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Several articles about constructed languages have been deleted for lack of verifiability, independent resources or notability. If you think one of the following subjects meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, don't hesitate dig it up from the graveyard, but don't forget to add proper references:

Abakwi language, Ancient Language, Arovën, Baza, Bluddian, Ceqli, Dremlang, Dunia (language), Eaiea, Ekspreso, Esperando, Fasile, Glide, Herman Miller, Kotava, Latejami, Mondlango, Musbrek, Or'zet, Romanica, Romanova, Sermo, Siberian, Signuno, Sperethiel, Szkev, Thosk, Tokcir, Troscann, Unas, Vorlin.

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Web resources

Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com
Some Internet resources relating to constructed languages, by Richard Kennaway
A Constructed Languages Library
Invaluable Conlang Links
UniLang.org
Conlang.wikicities
IAL Wiki at Wikicities
Talideon ConlangWiki
Conlanger.com

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Articles

Constructed language types A priori language, Artificial script, Artistic language, Constructed language, Controlled language, Engineered language, International auxiliary language, Language game, Logical language, Musical language, Oligosynthetic language, Pivot language, Relexification, Universal language, Whistled language, Zonal constructed languages General language types Agglutinative language, Analytic language, Inflectional language, Fusional language, Isolating language, Polysynthetic language, Synthetic language See also: List of constructed languages, List of constructed scripts International auxiliary languages Languages: Adjuvilo, Afrihili, Babm, Basic English, Bolak (Blue Language), Communicationssprache, Dutton Speedwords, Esata, Esperanto, Esperanto II, Eurolengo, Euronord, Europanto, Folkspraak, Globish, Glosa, Idiom Neutral, Ido, Intal, Interglossa, Interlingua, Latino sine flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Lingua sistemfrater, Lojban, Mezhdunarodny Nauchny Yazyk, Mirad, Modern Indo-European, Mondial, Mundolinco, Neo, Novial, Noxilo, Occidental, Pasilingua, Poliespo, Romániço, Semitish, Slovianski, Slovio, Solresol, Sona, Spokil, Toki Pona, Tutonish, UNI, Universal, Universalglot, Universalspraket, Uropi, Volapük Creators: Louis de Beaufront, Claudius Colas, Louis Couturat, René Descartes, Reginald J. G. Dutton, Alexander Gode, Otto Jespersen, Arie de Jong, Léopold Leau, Diego Marani, Charles Kay Ogden, Giuseppe Peano, Waldemar Rosenberger, Johann Martin Schleyer, Kenneth Searight, Petro Stojan, François Sudre, Edgar de Wahl, Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof See also: Arcaicam Esperantom, Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale, Esperantido, Esperanto and Ido compared, Esperanto and Interlingua compared, IALA, Pan-Slavic language, Proto-Esperanto, Reformed Esperanto Logical, philosophical, and engineered languages Languages: An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, aUI, Blissymbol, Characteristica universalis, CycL, Gibson Code, Ilaksh, Ithkuil, Kalaba-X, Láadan, Lincos, Loglan, Logopandecteision, Lojban, Loom, Ro Creators: James Cooke Brown, George Dalgarno, Hans Freudenthal, Gottfried Leibniz, Francis Lodwick, Kenneth L. Pike, John Wilkins Artistic and fictional languages Languages: Adûnaic, Aklo, Al Bhed, Alltongue, Ascian, Atlantean, Aulëan, Babel-17, Balaibalan, Barmoodan, Baronh, Black Speech, Brithenig, Chakobsa, Chorukor, Cirquish, Darkovan, D'ni, Doriathrin, Dothraki, Drac, Dritok, Eloi, Enchanta, Enochian, Galach, Gargish, Gippog, Gnommish, Goa'uld, Huttese, Interlac, Iotic, Kēlen, Khuzdul, Klingon, Klingonaase, Koalang, Ku, The Languages of Pao, Lapine, The Lexicon of Comicana, Lingua Ignota, Linguacode, Loxian, Mandalorian, Mangani, Marain, Mänti, Mezangelle, Nadsat, Na'vi, Newspeak, Old Tongue, Pravic, Ptydepe, Quenya, Rihannsu, Sarus, Shyriiwook, Simlish, Sindarin, Speedtalk, Spocanian, Starckdeutsch, Stark, Starsza Mowa, Strine, Talossan, Telerin, Teonaht, The Speech, Tho Fan, Transpiranto, Tsolyáni, Utopian, Vendergood, Verdurian, Wenedyk, Zaum Scripts: Aurebesh, Cirth, Tengwar Creators: Richard Adams, Anthony Burgess, Sally Caves, Samuel R. Delany, Diane Duane, Suzette Haden Elgin, Václav Havel, Frank Herbert, Hergé, Ursula K. Le Guin, Barry B. Longyear, Morioka Hiroyuki, George Orwell, Marc Okrand, Mark Rosenfelder, David Salo, J. R. R. Tolkien, Christian Vander, Xul Solar, Marion Zimmer Bradley See also: Alien language, Codex Seraphinianus, Elvish languages, False writing system, Languages in Star Wars, Languages of Arda, Languages of Middle-earth, North Slavic languages Constructed languages for special uses Languages: Boontling, Damin, Eskayan, Gestuno, High Icelandic, Iazychie, Kesen dialect, Nuwaubic, Polari, Tadoma, Timerio, Yerkish See also: Voynich manuscript Constructed writing systems for natural languages Writing systems: Cherokee syllabary, Cree syllabics, Deseret alphabet, Hangul, Landsmål, Nynorsk, Shavian alphabet Creators: Ivar Aasen, James Evans, William Fulco, Ronald Kingsley Read, Heinrich Schmid, Sequoyah Miscellaneous A Secret Vice, Conlanger, Ill Bethisad, ISO, SIL, and BCP language codes for constructed languages, Langmaker, Language Construction Kit, Language Creation Conference, Language Creation Society, Language planning, Language reform, Zompist.com

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