Artistic language

An artistic language (or artlang) is a constructed language (conlang) designed for aethestic pleasure. Unlike engineered languages or auxiliary languages, artistic languages usually have irregular grammar systems, much like natural languages. Many are designed for fictional worlds, such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and Mark Rosenfelder's Almea. Others represent fictional minority languages in a world not patently different from the real world, or have no particular fictional background attached.

Related Topics:
Constructed language - Engineered language - Auxiliary language - Language - Fictional world - J. R. R. Tolkien - Middle-earth - Mark Rosenfelder - Almea

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There are several different schools of artlangs. The most important is the naturalist school, which seeks to imitate the complexity and historicity of natural languages. However, there are also artlangers who do not care about naturalness,

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but follow a more abstract style.

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