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 a language that emerges from human interaction, is intentionally devised for a particular purpose. Constructed language is often shortened to conlang and is a relatively broad term that encompasses subcategories including: fictional, artificial, engineered, planned and invented. A constructed language may include natural language aspects including phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary. Interlinguistics includes the study of constructed languages.

What type of thing are constructed languages?

Constructed languages can be described as all of the following:

• Language –

Types of constructed languages

• 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

Specific constructed languages

• List of constructed languages
• List of constructed scripts

History of constructed languages

History of constructed languages

Constructed languages organizations

• 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

Constructed languages publications

Books on constructed languages

• 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