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	Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is no defined line between a language and a dialect, but it is often said that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
		One should be careful about the underlying classification principle for groups of languages which have apparently a geographical name: besides areal linguistic units, the taxa of the genetic classification (language families) are often given names which themselves or parts of which refer to geographical areas.
		The usage of this language is mainly either to define which form of magic is wished to be used, or as the main language used by the magical elves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language (1880 words)

	Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		DiLingo is the gutteral utteral, the paradigm of rhyme, the pox of vox.
		Lifehomese is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth.
		Lrahran is one of the alien languages of the Commonwealth.
	www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.html (10527 words)

	Garrett's Links to Logical Constructed Languages
		Loglan/Lojban is a language designed for several purposes, including linguistics research (especially involving a proposed test of the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis), foreign language instruction, artificial intelligence research, machine translation and related human/computer interaction applications, and as a stimulating educational and entertaining mental exercise.
		Ithkuil is an idealized language whose aim is the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency, detail, and accuracy in cognitive expression via spoken human language, while minimizing the ambiguity, vagueness, illogic, redundancy, polysemy (multiple meanings) and overall arbitrariness that is seemingly ubiquitous in natural human language.
		This language is designed to meet two primary goals for interlingua: first, it must be easier to accurately translate from the source natural language into the interlingua than into another natural language; and, second, it must be almost trivially easy (i.e., requiring simple computer programming) to accurately translate from the interlingua into the target language.
	minyeva.alkaline.org /links.htm (1161 words)

	Whorfian linguistic relativism and constructed languages
		The authors of constructed languages, especially of schematic ones, so they argue, have attempted to give the simplest and most logical system of means of expression to the universal human logical conceptual system.
		Whorf's treatment of the constructed languages contains many ideas deserving a closer examination; yet because of his insufficient knowledge of the constructed languages, and still more of their literature and practical application, many of his conclusions are untenable.
		In 1880 and 1890, when no constructed language had proved its practical usability, one could well discuss the question of which was the better aim for a constructed language -- to make it a complete cultural language or, because the attainability of this aim was doubtful, to make it a mere auxiliary language.
	donh.best.vwh.net /Languages/themaat.html (4035 words)

	Láadan, the Constructed Language in Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin
		Everyone knows about the constructed languages in Tolkien’s writing (Elvish, for example); what is perhaps less well known is that Tolkien said he wrote his novels to provide a showcase for the languages.
		A conlang is a language put together with the intention that it should have enough grammar and vocabulary to make it possible for someone to use it to communicate, just as they would use an existing natural language.
		First, much of the plot for Native Tongue revolved around a group of women, all linguists, engaged in constructing a language specifically designed to express the perceptions of human women; because I'm a linguist and linguistics is the science in my novels, I felt obligated actually to construct the language before I wrote about it.
	www.sfwa.org /members/elgin/Laadan.html (1044 words)

	Lojban and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
		Lojban is an artificial language, the major accomplishment of a 35-year research project into the nature of human language.
		Another was the difficulty of differentiating between language constraints on cultural thought, and cultural effects that dictate the evolution of a language.
		Brown's language incorporated the well-understood concepts and structures of symbolic logic into its structure, and attempted to avoid ambiguities that could confuse those well-formed structures.
	www.alamut.com /subj/artiface/language/sapirWhorf.html (812 words)

	Resource Type Index Of Resources
		GermaniconlangGermaniconlang is an offshoot of the Constructed Languages List, devoted to those constructed languages that are based on or inspired by the Germanic languages.
		Model Languages (Conlangs)This group is for conlangers who wants to share their languages with another members and learn conlangs from another conlangers.
		Languages, by cultural definition, seek standardisation and mass-adoption; the command of language is one axis on which the ability to participate in all what society has to offer revolves around.
	www.langmaker.com /db/rsc_index_resourcetype.htm (8297 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)

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		Construction of the Volapük vocabulary appears to have followed a simple (simplistic?) principle: simple words are short words.
		This language was devised over a period of several years by the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, founded in 1901.
		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)

	Talossan Language Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Despite the odd directions the language was taking, however, Madison wrote all of Talossa's newspapers in it during this period and the language was becoming a patriotic and necessary feature of Talossa's one-man culture.
		Shortly thereafter the language fell into relative disuse, but in the autumn of 1984, as new citizens began to swell the tiny Kingdom and drive it toward becoming a genuine democracy, the King took a new interest in the native culture he had created.
		Of course the Talossan language does not have to be viewed in these terms, as a "restored" language giving life to an ancient reality, but for the author of this website, this is the most satisfying.
	my.execpc.com /~talossa/glhetg.html (4336 words)

	Constructed Languages
		In fact, my passion for constructing languages was one of the most important reasons I studied comparative linguistics at the Institute for Comparative Linguistics of the University of Leyden.
		An interesting application of a constructed language is as a specialized ritual language.
		With the current rate of language death and the current rate of constructed language birth, it seems entirely likely that within a few years there will be more artificial and constructed languages than natural ones.
	www.valdyas.org /conlang.html (730 words)

	Minyeva: a systematic constructed language
		My goal is for Minyeva to reflect the underlying semantics of sentences (the meaning of what's being said) with more regularity than natural languages do in general.
		I will systematically create the dictionary of the language so that there are no unexplained holes.
		In should give you an idea of how the language is supposed to work.
	minyeva.alkaline.org (440 words)

	INTERNATIONAL AUXILIARY LANGUAGES
		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.
		It is an auxiliary language "designed to be a particularly simple, consistent, and easy to learn language for international communications." Its phonolgy is simple, and spelling is phonetic.
		Richard Harrison is the principal author of Vorlin, a constructed language which aims at a balance between technical and esthetic criteria.
	www.smart.net /~bartlett/ial.html (2341 words)

	L#4892 (JBR Conlang)
		First I'd better explain what a conlang (or "constructed language") is. It's obvious, really, as long as you don't imagine I'm talking about anything as mundanely utilitarian as the development of computer "languages" like Intercal, or language-planning projects like the one that brought Hebrew back from the dead.
		Some conlangs are indeed contenders for the role of International Auxiliary Language, or Philosophically Perfect Logical Language; but most are just the fictional languages of fictional societies.
		Since I didn't have any idea whether the language needed words for "kangaroo" or "flintlock" I tried to reduce it to a lowest common denominator.
	www.xibalba.demon.co.uk /jbr/l4892 (408 words)

	Teonaht Homepage, Sally Caves © 1998
		Your invented language will never have the history of an actual one; it is more like an imaginary or model city, to which you can give the appearance of age and history.
		Brithenig, by Andrew Smith; a language based on the premise that Brythonic, or P-Celtic, combined in an alternate history with vulgar Latin to produce something halfway between Welsh and Italian.
		Kélen, by Sylvia Sotomeyer, a language spoken by non-humans whose most prominent feature, perhaps, lies in its use of "relationals" instead of a large class of open verbs.
	www.frontiernet.net /~scaves/teonaht.html (1574 words)

	The Cultures of Ill Bethisad
		Kerno is a minority language, spoken in the Province of Dûnein in the southwest of Kemr.
		Wessisc is an unrelated, but neighbouring language, based on the premise that the native P-Celtic langauge of the Isle of Wight merged with the language of the Saxon invaders.
		Dalmatika is a constructed Romance langauge of the Balkan region.
	www.bethisad.com /index.html (1541 words)

	Yamada Language Center: Constructed Language Mailing Lists
		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!
		This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/lists/artificial.html (142 words)

	Sona (Table of Contents) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Sona is a beautiful language design proposed in 1935 by Kenneth Searight.
		Some hope that Sona will become an international auxiliary language; others believe it is a charming artlang project.
		The supply of auxiliary languages is already larger than the demand, and information about Sona is only available in English.
	www.rick.harrison.net /langlab/sona.html (223 words)

	Lojban : Home Page
		Lojban is a carefully constructed spoken language designed in the hope of removing a large portion of the ambiguity from human communication.
		Lojban is regular; the rules of the language are without exception.
		This site is the official repository of materials from The Logical Language Group (the LLG), the non-profit corporation which has led Lojban development since 1987.
	www.lojban.org (405 words)

	Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com
		"I changed the language sources to include all three families, and rewrote the uniqueness to reflect the current script."
		Bergish is a Germanic language with simplified spelling and grammatical structures, and more flexibility in pronunciation and expression.
		There are significant grammatical differences from standard, modern German, such as: parts of speech categories; verb tenses; all letters are lowercase; three types of "and"; and a "th" letter.
	www.langmaker.com (668 words)

	Tsolhilhiq'ädüqoi - Conlang Links
		The Uhli Language, created by Sean Hendricks, a graduate student in linguistics at the University of Arizona.
		Rikchik, a fascinating sign language of an octopus-like race by the same name, invented by Denis M. Moskowitz.
		The Constructed Language of Doraya by Adam Parrish.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/136/cnlnglnx.html (160 words)

	The Waldzell Constructed Language (Conlang) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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.
		To see what lexical items have already been constructed in the language, visit the Waldzell Conlang Online Dictionary, and for a look at actual sentences in the Conlang, visit the Glass Bead Game Assertion Corpus (once it exists).
	www36.pair.com /waldzell/Conlang (180 words)

	EDU2 : Level 3
		The Languages of the Stars: Constructed Languages in Fact, and Science Fiction
		Esperanto: A Language for the Global Village Table of Contents
		University of Bristol Centre for Theories of Language and
	www.my-edu2.com /EDU/langua6.htm (226 words)

	Constructed Human Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		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)

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