Draft:Outline of constructed languages

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to constructed languages:

A constructed language is a language for communication between humans (i.e. not with or between computers) but unlike most languages that naturally emerge from human interaction, is intentionally devised by a person or group for a particular purpose. The term constructed language is often shortened to conlang and, as a relatively broad term, it encompasses subcategories including: fictional, artificial, engineered, planned and invented languages. Conlangs may include aspects reminiscent of natural language including phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary. Interlinguistics includes the study of constructed languages.

Constructed languages can be described as all of the following:

• Language –

• A priori language
• Artificial script
• Artistic language
• Constructed language
• Controlled language
• Engineered language
• Experimental language
• International auxiliary language
• Language game
• Logical language
• Musical language
• Oligosynthetic language
• Philosophical language
• Pivot language
• Relexification
• Universal language
• Whistled language
• Zonal constructed language

• List of constructed languages
• List of constructed scripts

History of constructed languages

• Akademio de Esperanto
• Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale
• Esperanto Museum and Collection of Planned Languages
• International Auxiliary Language Association
• International Volapük Academy
• Klingon Language Institute
• Language Creation Society
• Logical Language Group
• Uniono por la Linguo Internaciona Ido

• Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language - by Esther Schor
• In the Land of Invented Languages - by Arika Okrent

• The Search for the Perfect Language - by Umberto Eco