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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.

The synonym planned language is sometimes used when referring to international auxiliary languages, and by those who may object to the more common term "artificial". Some speakers of Esperanto avoid the term "artificial language" because they feel that it portrays the language as "unnatural". However, outside the Esperanto community the term language planning refers to prescriptive measures taken regarding a natural language. In this regard, even "natural languages" may be submitted to a certain amount of artificiality, and in the case of regularized grammars, the line is difficult to draw.

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Language of the month (January)

Ithkuil is a constructed human language marked by outstanding grammatical complexity and an innovative system of writing.

The language’s author, John Quijada, presents Ithkuil as a cross between an a priori philosophical language and a logical language designed to express deeper levels of human cognition overtly and clearly, yet briefly. The many examples from Quijada’s original grammar show that, in the general case, a message would take significantly longer to explicate in a natural language than in Ithkuil.

Quijada deems his creation to be too complex and rational a language to have developed “naturally”, yet a one usable for general conversation and literature. No person is hitherto known to be able to speak Ithkuil; Quijada, for one, does not. Find out more...

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Did you know...

...that the Marquis Louis de Beaufront, one of the creators of Ido, was not really a marquis?
...that two different constructed languages have claimed the name Interlingua, and one the name Interlingue?
...that Gottfried Leibniz was not only a famous scientist, but also the creator of a language named Characteristica universalis?

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Corresponding categories

[−] Constructed languages

[+] Artificial scripts

[+] Artistic languages

[+] Computer languages

[+] Constructed language organizations

[+] Constructed languages resources

[+] Engineered languages

[+] Esperantido

[+] Esperanto dictionaries

[+] Fictional languages

[+] Formal languages

[+] Gibberish language

[+] International auxiliary languages

[+] Language creators

[+] Language games

[+] Reconstructed languages

[+] Voynich manuscript

[+] Constructed language stubs

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Join: Constructed Languages WikiProject & add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Userbox}}
Tag: {{WP conlangs}}, {{Constructed languages}}, and {{Infobox language}} (see WP:CL Templates)
Evaluate: Everything in Category:Unassessed constructed language articles
Report: Edit wars and deletions
Expand: everything in category:Constructed language stubs
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