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.

See also

• List of constructed languages
• List of fictional languages
• Universal language
• Language construction
• CONLANG, conlanger
• language academy
• Language Construction Kit
• Language game (linguistics)
• artificial script
• Language modelling and translation
• language translation
• knowledge representation
• translation relay
• Universal grammar
• Metalanguage
• prescriptive grammar
• Language planning
• Linguistic protectionism
• List of language regulators
• Spelling reform
• P??ini
• Duden, German spelling reform of 1996
• spontaneous emergence of grammar
• Glottogony
• Pidgin
• Poto and Cabengo
• June and Jennifer Gibbons
• mystical languages
• Glossolalia
• Language of the birds