Constructed language

An artificial or constructed language (sometimes called a conlang) is a language that has been made by a person or small group, instead of being formed naturally as part of a culture. Some constructed languages are designed for use in human communication (like the common Esperanto). Others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experiments, secret codes, or simply because the maker likes to play language games.

 Categories 
Constructed languages can be split into groups by purpose. These groups are:
 Engineered languages (engelangs), which are split into philosophical languages and logical languages (loglangs) - designed for experiments in logic or philosophy 
 Auxiliary languages (auxlangs) - designed to be a lingua franca (common language between people with different native languages) for international communication (also called International Auxiliary Language, (IAL)) 
 Artistic languages (artlangs) - designed to look or sound pretty, to make a fictional world more believable, or just for fun.
Constructed languages can also be split into a priori languages, which are made from scratch, and a posteriori languages, which borrow words and grammar from existing languages.

Some constructed languages also have constructed scripts to write them.

 Some examples of constructed languages 
Atlantean
Basic English
 Brithenig
 Dothraki
 Dutton's Speedwords
 Esperantido
 Esperanto
 Folkspraak
 Glosa
 Ido
 Interlingua
 Interlingue (in the past: Occidental)
 Interslavic
 Ithkuil
 Klingon
 Láadan
 Latino moderne
 Lingwa de planeta
 Lojban
 Middle-earth languages (Quenya, Sindarin)
 Na'vi language
 Newspeak
 Talossan
 Toki Pona
 Volapük
 Wenedyk

 Other websites 
 ENIONI Site dedicated to some constructed languages, mainly Esperanto, Idiom Neutral, Ido, Occidental/Interlingue, Novial, and Interlingua. It contains the magazines Posta Mundi, Vok Neutral, and IE Munde.
 The Language Construction Kit 
 LingoJam - a tool for creating conlang translators


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