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	Constructed language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Roughly contemporary to Plato, in his descriptive grammar of Sanskrit, Pāṇini constructed a meta-linguistic formalism, so that the text of his grammar may be considered a mixture of natural and constructed language.
		The first known conlang is Lingua Ignota, created in the 12th century by St Hildegard of Bingen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constructed_language (1676 words)

	A Conlang FAQ
		A constructed language, or conlang, is a language created consciously, usually by one person, rather than one evolving over long periods of time in a community of speakers.
		J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the more famous conlangers of this century, devising numerous languages; he called conlanging his "secret vice." The medieval nun Hildegard of Bingen supplemented her vocabulary with almost 1000 words of Lingua Ignota, her "unknown language," when she wrote in Latin several hundred years ago.
		Some conlangs are languages designed or intended to express meanings which other languages may ignore, neglect, suppress, etc., such as Laadan, created by Suzette Haden Elgin for her novel Native Tongue as a way to talk about women's language.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/9219/conlangfaq.html (2266 words)

	Language Resources: the Conlang list (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Conlang is not the place to discuss international auxiliary languages (IALs) such as Esperanto.
		The list traffic is around one hundred messages a day, so you may want to use digest mode to avoid receiving a lot of small messages, or filter out some of them (send the command HELP in the BODY of a message to the listserver to learn how to do this).
		For many people it turns out a fruitful thing to be encouraged to perfect your languages and knowledge; for some, getting attention is all they need to get working, and when alone they feel insecure, needing someone to guide them and to answer their small tormenting questions.
	www.pueblacity.com /ego-pdf/ng/lng/conlanglist.html (560 words)

	Conlang: Intermediate Irregularities - Wikibooks
		Adding irregularities to your conlang is a must if you want it to feel more 'naturalistic'.
		However, if you make a sound change rule which states that o becomes u at the end of a word, then the relationship is no longer so obvious because the o changes into a u in the singular but doesn't in the plural because it is no longer at the end of the word.
		Because sound changes are a fairly useful phenomenon in conlanging, they are covered in more depth in the articles History and Common Sound Changes.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Conlang:_Intermediate_Irregularities (346 words)

	Conlang flag - FrathWiki
		The conlang flag consists of a rising sun behind a ziggurat or terraced tower.
		The purple represents creativity, and the tower alludes to the Tower of Babel and to the never-ending building process involved in conlanging.
		The flag was voted on by the members of the CONLANG mailing list in September 2004.
	wiki.frath.net /Conlang_flag (115 words)

	Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List
		Folksstem, "de Nue Germane Kunstsprak", is a conlang standing in a similar relation to the Germanic languages as Esperanto does to the Romance languages.
		Microlang 1.0 is an a priori minimal conlang.
		Slavëni is a North Slavonic conlang, and a predecessor of Seversk.
	www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.html (10527 words)

	The Waldzell Constructed Language (Conlang) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Waldzell Conlang is an artificially constructed language (or conlang) designed to provide a medium for natural-language communication in which ontological vagueness and ambiguity are minimized.
		The lexical items of the Waldzell Conlang are created when a game is submitted to the Waldzell Glass Bead Game Archive to represent the new terms which were introduced in the game (i.e.
		In fact, the Conlang itself will remain nameless until it is mentioned in a game submitted to the Archive.
	www36.pair.com /waldzell/Conlang (180 words)

	[conlang] Digest Number 4176
		Some popular choices include 'our language' or 'the people's language' or something similar (even if you don't have a people yet but your language is an artlang that could conceivably be spoken by a people, it's still a good choice).
		It is logic when you call it by the >name of the imaginary people who speak it but I don't have any >history about my conlang.
		I would imagine that a language doesn't need a name unless there are other languages from which it needs to be differntiated.
	www.mail-archive.com /conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00112.html (1227 words)

	[conlang] Digest Number 4238
		Most people's first conlangs look a lot like their own natlangs.
		An isolating conlang might be easiest _for me_ because it is more like English.
		It's harder to make up 1000 basic words than it is to decide which tenses and cases a conlang uses.
	www.mail-archive.com /conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00154.html (871 words)

	Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com
		Meanwhile, bonus points to anyone who can contact me in the next few days identifying what those conlangs have in common that the conlangs I've excluded lack.
		Other Vorlin words cover a smaller range of meanings, so that for, "form, shape", does not include other senses of English form like "a paper document to be filled in", "a molding to be filled with concrete" or "manners or conduct".
		Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com © 1996-2005 Jeffrey Henning.
	www.langmaker.com (998 words)

	Waldzell Conlang: Reference Grammar
		When writing Waldzell Conlang using the Latin alphabet, the same letters are used as in the phonological description above.
		Anybody wishing to write Waldzell Conlang in a pre-existing, non-Latin-based system, is welcome to devise a mapping from their writing system to the WC phoneme inventory.
		Any expression can be written with the phonemic glyphs alone; logographic symbols will be added for writing conlang words where such conventional usage is warranted (for relations, grammatical particles and certain high-frequency terms, for instance).
	www36.pair.com /waldzell/Conlang/grammar.html (861 words)

	A Conlang FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the more famous conlangers of the previous century, devising numerous languages; he called conlanging his “secret vice.” The trilogy of films based on his epic, The Lord of the Rings, features examples of characters (Galadriel, Arwen, Aragorn, Legolas, the Uruk-hai) speaking his conlangs.
		Some conlangs are languages designed or intended to express meanings which other languages may ignore, neglect, suppress, etc.
		Lexical Semantics by Rick Morneau is a frequently updated, stimulating and serious work by a trained linguist who proposes an efficient and logical way to construct a syntax and vocabulary and to minimize the strain on memory of the language learner.
	crh.choate.edu /English/deaston/de_conlang.htm (2302 words)

	Conlang Relay participants
		the Third Conlang Relay, entitled "Bliss of a Fairy", took place in the Spring of 2000 and was led by Nicole Perrin.
		Conlang Translation Relay no. 10/R, the "Olympic Relay", took place in the Summer of 2004 and was led by Jan van Steenbergen.
		Conlang Relay no. 11, nicknamed "The Primordial Soup Relay" (and also by some the "Cursed Relay") was run at the beginning of 2005 by Irina Rempt.
	steen.free.fr /relay10/old_relays.html (800 words)

	The Language Construction Kit
		Cuêzi is a pretty, Greco-Latinish language; Wede:i is wonderfully agglutinating; Kebreni is designed to be not very much like English while still being typical of human languages; Elkarîl is a non-human language which violates several human universals.
		Rick Harrison has an elegant page with a respectable conlang, Vorlin, and a renunciation of IALs that IALers will dismiss at their peril.
		Richard Kennaway has many links to descriptions of conlangs and resources for creating them, and it's annotated (something not enough linkmeisters bother to do).
	www.zompist.com /kit.html (790 words)

	Nirdaen constructed language - Index
		irdaen is one of the constructed languages that I have been developing for fictional purposes since 1997, inspired by the discussions on the ConLang and TolkLang email lists and by the works of the late Professor J.R.R. Tolkien.
		I am devoting as much time as I can (not much, actually) to transcribing and editing it, but my notes are not organized as I would like.
		Please note that like all conlangs, this is a work in progress and is subject to revisions.
	www.stormloader.com /spirit (479 words)

	Constructed Languages
		We also have an additional word generator, the Conlang Word Maker, that allows you to choose your own phonology and word/syllable formulas.
		And, finally, if that wasn't enough, there's the Conlang Word Maker, Version 2, that does everything the Conlang Word Maker does, but also lets you create translations for a small set of words.
		If you're a fan of the new Dungeons and Dragons, or the Dragon Magazine, we have three new languages ripped from their pages: Dwarven, Elven and Draconic.
	www.fantasist.net /conlang.shtml (338 words)

	CONLANG RELATED LINKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yer Ugly Mug -- Yer Ugly Mug is a site composed of biographical sketches and pictures of some of the conlangers that inhabit various conlang and conculture lists.
		Although Yahoo has a partial archive and a mail list that seems to be Conlang, you can not participate in the group by subscribing to Yahoo's group.
		Lastly, if international auxilliary languages are of interest to you (Interlingua, Esperanto and their ilk), then give the Auxlang list a try: here.
	www.geocities.com /elemtilas/ill_bethisad/links.htm (227 words)

	conlang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Contact: listserv@diku.dk Purpose: The conlang mailing list is devoted to a discussion of any and all constructed languages (also known as artificial languages, planned languages, etc).
		If you want to publicize your own language, or if you need help finding information about some other language project, or if you want to discuss the relative merits of various tongues, conlang is the place to be!
		To join, send a message to listserv@diku.dk containing the text "subscribe conlang".
	www.ii.uib.no /~magnus/lists/conlang.html (95 words)

	Scattered Tongues - the conlang webring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The conlang mailinglist archives, not to be missed
		Conlanging isn't mentioned much outside our circles, but it does happen...
		which the wired conlang community IMHO is so hampered with.
	www.ifi.ntnu.no /~hannemo/sc/index.html (606 words)

	Ted Kloba's Conlang Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Feel free to use any of this content in your own non-commercial creations, as long as you contact me first and give credit.
		Click here to visit The Conlang Orthography Museum, a collection of writing systems for defunct or abandoned projects.
		It is strictly an artlang, and is being built rather haphazardly.
	www.aquila.net /sworkers/conlang (534 words)

	The Conlang Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I'd also like to try responding to others in their own conlangs; I think that'd be pretty awesome.
		As a random sidenote, Girl Scout Thin Mints are evilly yummy.
		I'm glad that everyone's enjoying this and using it to further develop your conlangs.
	www.livejournal.com /community/conlangexchange (1436 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A book detailing the grammar, vocabulary and main design principles of various conlangs, would be a good idea, especially if the descriptions for each conlang werte in the same format, for ease of comparison.
		I wonder how many conlangs have words that mean "bird" and "insect", but not "`of", and to what extent this is due to the influence of the designers' native tongues.
		It should not be imagined that to become a "real" language, a conlang must strive to emulate the position of English or any other natlang on all of these measures.
	home.ccil.org /~cowan/conlang/con9509 (17050 words)

	[No title]
		Bruce Gilson answered: >Loglan was a language originally developed by James Cooke Brown, presented >about 35 years ago in Scientific American magazine, which involved the enco- >ding of symbolic logic in a language.
		What I did was detail work, and most of that detail work was me working with someone else who deserves equal credit for their contribution.
		But people have for years been hypothesizing what kind of conlang native Loglan/Lojban speakers would invent as an improved second generation Loglan - so maybe "ultimate" is the wrong word.
	www.mindspring.com /~jimhenry/conlang/lojban00.msg (5077 words)

	Links
		Based on the Waldzell Glass Bead Game, this appeared to be an innovative approach to conlang design.
		The project was apparently abandoned at about the same time that Mark dropped out of conlang circles (3/97)
		This page doesn't seem to have any indication of who its author might be.
	www.graywizard.net /Conlinguistics/links.htm (195 words)

	[No title]
		****************************************** For CONLANG**: Categories of Grammaticalization in Language- In Arabic Structure (a course I took at Georgetown University some years back), we identified eleven grammaticalized concepts and the parts of speech to which each applied.
		I have written up a short explanation of these and added a comparison to Esperanto with the idea that these areas might be exploited for language construction.
		You might want to add a prepositive or postpositive toggle for adjectives & prepositions - that is, some words might precede the noun they modify, others follow it, and others have a different meaning according to their position (as, e.g., ancien in French).
	www.mindspring.com /~jimhenry/conlang/conl1996.msg (3215 words)

	Main Page - Conlang
		a wiki where anyone can present their conlangs and concultures, and a project to collect information on topics relating to conlanging, conculturing, and worldbuilding
		This site is not supposed to replace, but rather to complement the Conlang Wiki (http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/) at talideon.com.
		Particularly if you want to host your conlang here.
	conlang.wikicities.com /wiki/Main_Page (98 words)

	Conlang Mailing List
		List owner (a human being who helps you!)
		Conlang is a mailing list for discussing constructed and artificial languages.
		The focus is on technical discussion and personal preferences and views of our enthusiastic conlangers rather than on advocacy, especially of international auxiliary languages (IALs), which has to be discussed on the Auxlang
	listserv.brown.edu /archives/conlang.html (80 words)

	Urban Dictionary: conlang
		A language that does not occur by natural process and is not a normal product of a national culture, but is invented either for personal/private use, fiction (Klingon, Tolkien's Quenya), international communication (Esperanto), political reasons, or as an experiment.
		Esperanto, a conlang designed for simple communication between differing language groups, especially European, has millions of speakers, though its exact number is uncertain.
		A language that has been constructed, such as Klingon or Esperanto.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=conlang (127 words)

	Search: Science>Social Sciences>Language and Linguistics>Constructed Languages>Language Creation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jesse Bangs discusses language creation as an art form, includes David Peterson's conlang manifesto.
		Large searchable archive of the conlang mailing list.
		These are the early archives of the mailing list.
	aoltvsearch.aol.com /cat.adp?id=904053 (231 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Someone else handled the explanation of exactly what grits are, so I am now free to babble about selecting words for conlangs: RecentIy, have been creating a customized English word list, or, perhaps I should say, a list of meanings for conlang words in English (since some meanings don't correspond exactly to any English equivalents).
		On a related note, I must say that French has a phenomenal number of verb forms ("tenses", pfft), with excessively confusing means of differentiating their use.
		Translation: "Not everyone that is (crazy) is (in), and not everyone that is (in) is (crazy)." [topic mode=on] Thinking about this I came up with two questions for you conlangers...
	home.ccil.org /~cowan/conlang/con9704 (9238 words)

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