Constructed language

An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. Some are designed for use in human communication (usually to function as international auxiliary languages), but others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experimentation, secrecy (codes), or for the experience of doing so (artistic languages, language games). These languages are sometimes associated with constructed worlds.

External links

Scholarship

• Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet by Sarah L. Higley. M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3.1 (2000).

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• Language Arts Outpost preserves several articles from the paper zine Journal of Planned Languages
• The Language Lab, Rick Harrison's site, also reprints several such articles on specific languages

Real Life classes on conlangs

• Spring 2005 UC Berkeley Conlangs DE-Cal (and its recorded videos)
• List of Esperanto university classes worldwide (in Esperanto)

Communities

• The CONLANG Mailing List Archives
• LiveJournal Conlangs community
• Zompist Bulletin Board - a highly active online forum devoted to conlangs (and conworlds in general)
• KutjaraWiki - a wiki, running on MediaWiki, managed by the denizens of the Zompist BBoard
• ArtLangs.com :: The ArtLangs Community - A forum and site on conlanging and conworlding
• Conlanger.com - A forum and link collection for conlanging

How to

• The Language Construction Kit
• How to Create a Language by Pablo David Flores, inspired by the Language Construction Kit; covers some overlooked topics
• Cómo crear un lenguaje - Spanish language version
• Langmaker: ConLangs and neologisms forum

Link collections

• Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com - over 1,000 languages listed, frequently updated
• Invaluable Conlang Links
• The Conlang Yellow Pages
• Blueprints For Babel
• Garrett's Links to Logical Languages

Collections of constructed language resource links

• Some Internet resources relating to constructed languages
• More Internet resources relating to constructed languages

Wikis on or about constructed languages

• ConlangWiki - a wiki devoted to the topics of ConLangs and ConCultures.
• Conlang Wikicity
• FrathWiki
• Unilang.org - a database of language- and linguistic-related information