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About interlinguistics Interlinguistics is the study of how languages are used to communicate between different linguistic groups, and in particular how the techniques of language planning can be used to improve such communication. But although there may be doubts about one or the other language as to its status as either an ethnic or a planned language, there are of course names of languages which are without hesitation associated with the realm of planned languages. Those studying planned languages longer do so only in order to defend them, nor only to improve or redesign them or to prescribe a certain usage, but they have learned to observe, to study, and to describe. esperantic.org /ced/interl.htm   (1419 words)

Interlinguistics in China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Language planning is directed at the synthetic optimalization of the regional and/or global language situation. More specifially, a planned language is an external realization of universal grammar; while Humboldt's maxim that language is "the limitless use of a limited instrument" accurately captures the fact that a planned language is born and evolves out of a limited stock of linguistic rules and materials. The significance of the Chinese language for interlinguistics is explored by Liu (1996d), under the three categories "Pasigraphies based on Hanzi", "Planned languages based on the syntactic structure of the Chinese language", and "Planned languages using Hanzi elements as syntactic markers". htliu.nease.net /inch.htm   (3842 words)

INTERNATIONAL AUXILIARY LANGUAGES In character, Volapük is an agglutinative "mixed" language, combining both a priori and a posteriori elements. Lojban is useful for the study of languages themselves and has been used as an auxiliary language in its own right. He intended it an an "auxiliary neutral language." It is distinctive in that it is an a priori language, built on 360 radicals and 15 particles. www.panix.com /~bartlett/ial.html   (2345 words)

artificial languages FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) An artificial language is a language that has been deliberately designed by one person or a small group of people over a relatively short period of time. The model language is then taught to a group of people, and their ability or inability to learn it, or its effect on their brain activity or their perceptions of the world can be analyzed and conclusions drawn. Tolkien's "elvish" languages, the Klingon language from Star Trek, and the feminine language Laadan from Suzette Haden Elgin's novels are examples of this fascinating social phenomenon. www.faqs.org /faqs/language/artificial-languages-FAQ   (921 words)

Bibliography of Planned Languages Philosophical languages are a priori projects in which the letters of a word indicate its category of meaning; for example, all words pertaining to liquids might begin with the letter L. The strength of a priori languages lies in their systematic methods of word creation and derivation. Language designs that attempt to embody predicate calculus or other forms of mathematical logic are classified as logical languages. The language is extremely different from English and the major European tongues; its phonemic inventory, grammar and OVS syntax are all quite unusual, and the available vocabulary was quite limited at first. www.rickharrison.com /language/bibliography.html   (5651 words)

Web Programming The resultant Web programming languages show their ancestry in their syntax, computational and data model, and implementation style (subject to the design constraints discussed in the previous section), and as a result, there are a fair number of distinct approaches taken. Newer languages used in this context, like Perl and Tcl, were heavily influenced by the shell language forebears, and were generally developed to deal with the ever increasing complexity of scripting tasks, and the desire to apply such high-level languages to somewhat different tasks. The Telescript language itself is similar to C++, but is specialized to support the agent paradigm with built-in support for moving agents and interacting with other agents, and supports advanced memory management, including the persistence of all objects. www.objs.com /survey/lang.htm   (8312 words)

An Esperanto Overview He began work on his planned language, which he would eventually call "Lingvo Internacia", as a junior in high school, and eventually published the first textbook of the language (for speakers of Russian) in the 1887, at the time of his marriage and early in his medical career. Of the various planned languages developed (invariably on private initiative) over the years for international use, the best known have been (in chronological order) Volapük, Esperanto, Interlingua (Peano), Ido, Occidental/Interlingue, Basic English, Novial and Interlingua (Gode). Whether it is superior or inferior to other planned languages is an open question, since none of the others have gathered a great enough number of speakers for a long enough period of time to provide evidence one way or the other. www.webcom.com /~donh/efaq.html   (2807 words)

IALs, international auxiliary languages, planned languages, constructed languages,conlangs, artificial ... Visual index for international auxiliary languages, planned languages, conlangs, artificial languages The hungarian language, La langue hongroise, La hungara lingvo Language International: The magazine for the language professions www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Horizon/6250/ial.html   (87 words)

Languages for Dublin Core Just as speakers of various languages must learn the language of Dublin Core in their own tongues, we must find the right words to talk about a metadata language that is expressable in many discipline-specific jargons and natural languages and that inevitably will evolve and change over time. Typically, these planned languages were created by a single author, working in isolation, then adopted by a small circle of followers. Other scholars point out that planned languages are by their nature closed in design, rather strictly governed by rules, linguistically unnatural, and ill-suited to change. www.dlib.org /dlib/december98/12baker.html   (6833 words)

Conlang Directory: Historical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Animalic, a simple language made by Tolkien's cousins, was the first of someone else's constructed languages that he was exposed to, and it inspired Nevbosh. The language is so naturalistic that Don Harlow says, "a linguist unfamiliar with it might be forgiven for assuming it to be a minor Romance dialect that had grown up after the collapse of Rome." Inspired by Mundo-Lingue, Occidental itself served as an inspiration for Novial. Descended from Primitive Elvish, Quenya is the chief of Tolkien's Elvish languages, used mainly in The Lord of The Rings and The Silmarillion. www.langmaker.com /db/condir_historical.htm   (2463 words)

[No title] To serve as an effective foundation, the only appropriate type of language will be that which can be assimilated in a very short period of time, can be spoken fluently and at least matches the expressiveness of natural languages. Among the approximately 1,000 planned languages 5 the Esperanto language, initiated in 1887 and since that time evolving through self regulation, stands forth remarkably. This state of affairs will continue until English becomes the native language of all (unless in the meantime another candidate announces itself, for which scenario there are already several examples, and the possibility still exists). www.esperanto.org.nz /threeben.html   (1616 words)

Constructed Languages The Constructed languages flag is not official, but is from wiki.frath.net, a project to produce a free encyclopedia of construced languages and constructed cultures. A language like, say, Interlingua might be (by some individual's criteria) "better" than Esperanto, but in order for it to be worth uprooting the established world of Esperanto and creating an equivalently widespread world community of Interlingua speakers, it would have to be visibly and profoundly an improvement over Esperanto of prodigious proportions. While some enthusiasts do see Loglan and Lojban as competitors to Esperanto, the languages were conceived not as a tool to facilitate better communication, but as a linguistic experiment, to test the Whorf hypothesis that a language shapes (or limits) the thoughts of its speakers. www.single-serving.com /constructed/index.php   (814 words)

Summary of the planned language SLOVIO. Slovio, unlike other planned languages, is based on a limited number of widely spoken related natural languages and that's why as soon as you learn Slovio you can communicate with over 400 million people around the World. Esperanto was not the first planned language but Esperanto made the world awareof the fact that a planned language is not only possible, but that it can be better, more melodious, more logical, simpler, and easier to learn than natural languages. Disadvantages of the 100% phonetic languages is that in order to use new words from other languages they have to be phoneticized, in other words, their spelling has to be changed into the spelling system of the "phonetic" language. www.slovio.com /summary.html   (1999 words)

Fernando González del Cueto - English Every language both liberates and imprisons its users, giving them the ability to communicate among themselves but barring them from communication with others. Many people say that Esperanto has some flaws and there are better planned languages (for example, IDO) and I agree with most of the complaints. However, currently, Esperanto is the only planned language with a sizeable population of speakers. www.owlnet.rice.edu /~fcueto/esperanto.html   (699 words)

ES 1/02 publications The second part of the volume includes a paper on creoles, pidgins and planned languages (Liu Haitao, Xining CN), an examination of the question of whether a “clear” structure is instructional (Renato Corsetti and Mauro La Torre, IT), sssss. Hans Erasmus (Voorburg, NL) then discuss the political implications of language planning, in general and in the European Union. Theoretical, Historical and Applied Aspects of Interlinguistics, is introduced by Aleksandr Duličenko (Tartu, EE) with a deliberation on the position of planned languages between engineered and ethnic languages. esperantic.org /esf/es13/pubs.htm   (1028 words)

[No title] This language was devised over a period of several years by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, founded in 1901. Occidental was the first of the modern "naturalistic" planned languages, in that it drew extensively on an "international vocabulary" and sought to simplify without obscuring well-recognized linguistic features. Of all the planned languages proposed up to that time, Interlingua was the only one developed by a team as the result of many years of systematic linguistic research. www.mtsu.edu /~rmorris/interling.html   (5692 words)

What if more widespread use of Esperanto - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) It is a neutral language, being the property of no particular group of people and therefore the equal property of everybody. A language like Interlingua - close enough to the Romance languages to be more or less comprehensible by native speakers of those languages, may have had more success. Most Bantu languages are very similar, so perhaps some African Nationalist say in the 1950's could have come up a simplified proto-Bantu language and proposed that this be the language of a united Africa. www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=980   (3822 words)

Conlang Directory: Philosophical   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Ithkuil combines an a priori philosophical language with a logical language, using a lexicon of 3600 semantic roots built on a complex, matrix-like grammar designed to achieve maximal communication of cognitive intent and meaning in a highly efficient manner. The language is an incredibly easy language to learn and is intended for use as an international auxiliary lang. Like Solresol, Ro is a pasigraphy (an a priori philosophical language), with a vocabulary derived not from natural languages but from a classification structure. www.langmaker.com /db/condir_philosophical.htm   (807 words)

The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : School of International Languages planned The Bharathidasan University has planned to start a School of International Languages soon, the Higher Education Secretary, K. Gnanadesikan, said here today. Inaugurating a university's Book Bank project, he said the proposal was approved by the Syndicate at a meeting held earlier in the day. The school would help students acquire requisite skills in foreign languages and enhance their employability. www.hinduonnet.com /2004/09/12/stories/2004091212590300.htm   (537 words)

The Ameryske Tunga--- the Amerykan Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Amerykan (Amerysk) is a planned language (invented language) developed by Paal-Eirik Filssunu beginning in 1979. The language is intended to serve as a unifying cultural factor for North American adherents of Asatru, (also called Odinism and Norse Paganism), the folk-religion of Northern Europe and of those of Northern European heritage. As a person who had an interest in other planned languages, I was interested. www.angelfire.com /mi2/tribal/amerysk   (231 words)

International Auxiliary Languages International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) are languages constructed with the aim of facilitating communication between people who would otherwise have no other language in common. A Planned Auxiliary Language by Henry Jacob, 1947 Has information on many planned languages and a directory of auxlangers, past and present. www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/5037   (1715 words)

cogling Archives: Planned languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) language than demographically matched students with two years of the second language alone; and this applied across several languages. planned language being finallized just before going public in a big hci.ucsd.edu /cogling/0035.html   (949 words)

Nirdaen constructed language - Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) 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. Please note that like all conlangs, this is a work in progress and is subject to revisions. If you want to discuss about constructed languages, you can reach me at conlang@ucsd.com. www.stormloader.com /spirit   (479 words)

Conlang Directory: Conlang Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, etc. was also a conlang fanatic, and developed several langauges for Elves and other races in his novels. The Yamada language institute has collected together some Tolkien fonts. Jeffrey Henning is trying to collect the Babel text (Genesis 11:1-9), in as many constructed and natural languages as possible. www.quetzal.com /conlang/resour.html   (254 words)

cogling Archives: Planned languages [was: Re: None]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) would be whether and how native speakers of planned languages alter the is essentially a planned language, might provide us with useful data One can tell a flat lie as easily in Lojban as in any other language. hci.ucsd.edu /cogling/0016.html   (576 words)

Links, Linguistics, Constructed Languages... As the caracteristic of Slavic Languages is declination, I think SLOVIO should also have a declension pattern, of course an easy one. This would help as a bridge for those people who want to learn any slavic language, and because their language does not decline, they can not fully understand declination, so a declining SLOVIO would help them overbridge the problem. Of course prepositions should be used, that enriches the language and makes it more precise. www.slovio.com /links.html   (407 words)

Constructed Human Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Visit their site to learn more about the book, read the online version, order a copy, or just to learn more about Lojban. If you know of any other constructed language with a web page or a file available by ftp or world wide web, please let me know and I'll include a link. Please keep in mind that this is just an index; other people have done all the work of actually inventing these languages and making them available to you on the internet! www.quetzal.com /conlang.html   (118 words)

Language Sources Note: information about Esperanto is carried in a separate page because there is so much of it compared with that for all other planned languages combined. Lancaster University, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language. The University of Essex, Department of Language and Linguistics www.webcom.com /donh/languages.html   (155 words)

E. L. Easton - Languages Say "Hello" to the World audio / Internet Public Library Word of the Day audio / Transparent Language Hotels: Language Inndex for America's Best BandBs, Small Hotels eleaston.com /languages.html   (79 words)

Language links Here are some link I've collected about languages and linguistics in general. Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Language and Linguistics: Natural Languages: Indo-European: Germanic: English: Spelling Reform How to send feedback on these pages to the author. www.alcyone.com /max/links/lang.html   (134 words)

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