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| | Constructed language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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). | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language
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| | A Conlang FAQ |
| | Although computer languages such as Fortran, C and Basic could be called constructed languages, these might better be designated as artificial languages. | | | While it's true that some conlangs may be a kind of code for English (or a "relexification," if you want to show off), many are, depending on your viewpoint, delightfully unlike English, and more like--or unlike--other languages. | | | In addition, a conlanger can create (or practice) while waiting for the dentist, during a coffee break, on a bus, etc. Pen and paper (or a computer) help, but they aren't absolutely necessary. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9219/conlangfaq.html
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| | 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. | | | To: conlang@diku.dk Subject: CONLANG: Language design program Sender: owner-conlang@diku.dk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hrick@gate.net Status: OR X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 310 If avoiding morphological ambiguity is important to you, then simply design a morphology that makes such ambiguity impossible from the very beginning, and you won't need a computer program (!) to check for such ambiguities. | | | 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. |
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http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/conlang/con9509
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| | The Waldzell Constructed Language (Conlang) |
| | 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. | | | For a complete description of the current version of the Conlang, see the Waldzell Conlang Reference Grammar. | | | 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. |
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http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/Conlang
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| | Language Resources: the Conlang list |
| | The synergy of so many heads thinking together is very useful for conlang development, since one human mind can't possibly comprehend such a great thing as a human (or alien) language. | | | The Constructed Languages List (Conlang) is a mailing list devoted to the discussion of fictional languages, or artlangs. | | | Conlang is not the place to discuss international auxiliary languages (IALs) such as Esperanto. |
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http://www.pueblacity.com/ego-pdf/ng/lng/conlanglist.html
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| | 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). | | | ******************************************** 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'm trying to make sure my model language software satisfies most people's needs. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~jimhenry/conlang/conl1996.msg
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| | Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages List |
| | Folkspraak is an ongoing collaborative project to develop a language based on what is common to the extant Germanic languages. | | | The Auxiliary Languages Mailing List was formed in 1996 as an offshoot of the Constructed Languages Mailing List, for discussion of issues particularly relating to the design and use of constructed languages as international auxiliary languages. | | | Phonetic Picture-Writing is a design for a conlang which is simultaneously ideographic and phonetic. |
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http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html
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| | We would know something more about how people learn vocabulary of foreign languages (which in turn might affect how foreign languages are taught - an effect that would probably be more significant than all the conlangs in the world have thus far had). | | | Bruce Gilson replies to me: >>I agree with you that the Lojban community would probably decide against such >>changes, but it will be a community decision and not mine. | | | Disclaimer: I wrote the Lojban reference grammar, and I'm a member of the board of directors of LLG, the Lojban organization, so obviously I'm biased. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~jimhenry/conlang/lojban00.msg
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| | conlang |
| | 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! | | | This mailing list is listed in the list of Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists - maintained by Stephanie da Silva. |
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http://www.ii.uib.no/~magnus/lists/conlang.html
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| | [conlang] Digest Number 4238 |
| | Something as complex as a language can't really be considered "complete". | | | > It is simply because I don't want to continue to create great ideas of > grammars and never make the rest of the conlang around it You could always get one of those word generator programs. | | | It's harder to make up 1000 basic words than it is to decide which tenses and cases a conlang uses. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00154.html
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| | Conlang Mailing List |
| | 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 |
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http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/conlang.html
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| | Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Constructed |
| | Conlangs DE-Cal - A class on constructing languages at the University of California Berkeley. | | | Earth Minimal Language - Complete 220 word second compact language. | | | Constructed Languages - Links to many conlang sites as well as the author's own conlang. |
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Constructed
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| | X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 323 I'm working on a conlang project which has to do with germanic languages... | | | X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 936 Alfredo Reino wrote: >I'm working on a conlang project which has to do with germanic languages... | | | X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 3550 Tony Harris wrote: > > >>I'm working on a conlang project which has to do with germanic languages... |
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http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/conlang/con9704
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| | Constructed Languages |
| | And now we have a Custom ConLang Word Generator that you allows you to input words from your own conlang! | | | If the script is unavailable for more than a few hours, e-mail me at Magus@Fantasist.net and I will correct the problem. | | | 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. |
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http://www.fantasist.net/conlang.shtml
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| | Conlang Relay participants |
| | Unfortunately, this relay was never concluded, and the results were never published; | | | Irina Rempt was relay master with a text written by Patrick Dunn; | | | 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. |
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http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html
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| | Tokcir - Conlang |
| | Tokcir is meant to be a language of the future, being fully modern and modernistic in vocabulary and outlook. | | | Tokcir is a collaborative effort (see group efforts (http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=GroupEfforts)), originally leaded by Julian Morrison in the Conlang mailing list (http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki/?doc=ConlangMailingList) as New Generation Language ([NGL]). |
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http://conlang.wikicities.com/wiki/Tokcir
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| | Conlang: Intermediate Irregularities - Wikibooks |
| | 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. | | | Suppletion is a slightly rarer phenomenon so if you decide to use it in your conlang then you should do so sparingly. | | | Almost any language will have some words that don't fit in to the usual pattern. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Conlang:_Intermediate_Irregularities
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| | [conlang] Digest Number 4176 |
| | I would imagine that a language doesn't need a name unless there are other languages from which it needs to be differntiated. | | | Another one is the plural form of the word "person" with sound change applied, becoming Faslyp. | | | Well, I very unoriginally use a word from the language itself. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00112.html
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| | Conlang Wiki: TestSentences |
| | This is a list of example sentences for translating into a conlang to test its grammar on. | | | The focus is on grammatical constructions as opposed to vocabulary. |
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http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki?doc=TestSentences
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| | Waldzell Conlang: Reference Grammar |
| | In recognition of Hesse's talk of "glyphs" in the novel, a more pictographic writing system for the Waldzell Conlang is under development. | | | 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. | | | Similar to both Mayan and Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Waldzell glyph language will consist of a logographic (word-writing) and a phonemic component. |
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http://www36.pair.com/waldzell/Conlang/grammar.html
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| | 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. |
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http://conlang.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page
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| | The Language Construction Kit |
| | Jeffrey Henning writes and posts regularly on the process of creating model languages and reviews a number of projects. | | | 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. | | | Pablo Flores has some nice Tolkienesque languages, plus his own guide to language creation (based on this one). |
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http://www.zompist.com/kit.html
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| | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.stormloader.com/spirit
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| | Scattered Tongues - the conlang webring |
| | The best index of conlangs on the net. | | | which the wired conlang community IMHO is so hampered with. | | | Some of them are even known by non-linguaholics... |
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http://www.ifi.ntnu.no/~hannemo/sc/index.html
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| | Ted Kloba's Conlang Page |
| | Gaciça is currently my only active conlang project. | | | 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. |
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http://www.aquila.net/sworkers/conlang
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| | The Conlang Exchange |
| | Hopefully we can all get practice actually chatting in our conlangs. | | | I've got the numbers worked out for a couple of my conlangs. | | | I'd also like to try responding to others in their own conlangs; I think that'd be pretty awesome. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/conlangexchange
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| | Conlang Meetup Groups - Meetup.com |
| | Meet other local individuals interested in constructing artificial languages, whether as an international language attempt, hobby, part of a constructed world, or anything else… | | | Other popular Meetups with People interestes in Conlang: | | | Explore below to find a new Meetup Group or start your own group! |
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http://conlang.meetup.com/8
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| | Conlang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | CONLANG, a well-known e-mail list for the discussion of constructed languages | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlang
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| | Conlang flag - FrathWiki |
| | A rapid series of designs were created by many people, many iterating on earlier versions: the design includes the suggestions of many. | | | Unless otherwise stated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. | | | The purple represents creativity, and the tower alludes to the Tower of Babel and to the never-ending building process involved in conlanging. |
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http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang_flag
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| | Conlang Profiles at Langmaker.com |
| | A tool to identify the language from a selection of text. | | | Conlangs Neologisms Babel Texts Neographies Resources Books more » | | | Humorously reviewed on conlangs by Tenser, said the Tensor. |
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http://www.langmaker.com
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| | Links |
| | Based on the Waldzell Glass Bead Game, this appeared to be an innovative approach to conlang design. | | | This page doesn't seem to have any indication of who its author might be. | | | Don Bleheta's list of language links including General Linguistics, Auxlangs, Conlangs and Natlangs |
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http://www.graywizard.net/Conlinguistics/links.htm
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| | Urban Dictionary: conlang |
| | A language that has been constructed, such as Klingon or Esperanto. | | | 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 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. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conlang
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| | CONLANG RELATED LINKS |
| | Lastly, if international auxilliary languages are of interest to you (Interlingua, Esperanto and their ilk), then give the Auxlang list a try: here. | | | Other conlanging lists, not directly related to Conlang are: | | | The constructed languages email list par excellence is, of course, CONLANG itself. |
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http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad/links.htm
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| | Pegasus Nest // conlang // tsuhon |
| | Thanks to many people on the conlang list for suggestions and comments. | | | Tsuhon is an unrealistic blend of German and Japanese, with the occasional influence from French or other languages thrown in. |
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http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/tsuhon.phtml
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| | A Conlang: Ourlang |
| | Now some words about me, and some words about a new conlang. | | | My name is Alexey Ezhikov, I live in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/ourlang
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| | Conlang Wiki: ConlangWiki |
| | To add a page to this wiki, just go to a page you want to link from and enter a WikiWord. | | | This wiki is devoted to the topics of ConLangs and ConCultures. | | | Good news: any edits are now emailed straight to me, so if anybody goes screwing with the site, posting up spam, they’re fragged! |
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http://talideon.com/concultures/wiki
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