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Constructed Languages
Artificially created languages including Esperanto and Klingon.
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Name↕ | ISO↕ | Origin↕ | Creator↕ | Description↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solresol | 1,827 | François Sudre | Based on pitch levels sounded with their solfege syllables (a "musical language") although no knowledge of music is required to learn it. | |
| Communicationssprache | 1,839 | Joseph Schipfer | Based on French. | |
| Universalglot | 1,868 | Jean Pirro | An early a posteriori language, predating even Volapük. | |
| Volapük | vo, vol | 1879–1880 | Johann Martin Schleyer | First to generate international interest in IALs. |
| Esperanto | eo, epo | 1,887 | L. L. Zamenhof | The most popular auxiliary language ever invented, including, possibly, up to two million speakers, the highest ever for a constructed language and the only one to date to have its own native speakers (approximately 1,000). |
| Mundolinco | 1,888 | J. Braakman | The first Esperantido. | |
| Bolak, "Blue Language" | 1,899 | Léon Bollack | Prospered fairly well in its initial years; now almost forgotten. | |
| Idiom Neutral | 1,902 | Waldemar Rosenberger | A naturalistic IAL by a former advocate of Volapük. | |
| Latino sine Flexione | la-peano | 1,903 | Giuseppe Peano | "Latin without inflection", it replaced Idiom Neutral in 1908. |
| Ro | 1,904 | Rev. Edward Powell Foster | An a priori language using categories of knowledge. | |
| Ido | io, ido | 1,907 | A group of reformist Esperanto speakers | The most successful offspring of Esperanto. |
| Adjuvilo | 1,910 | Claudius Colas | An Esperantido some believe was created to cause dissent among Idoists. | |
| Timerio | 1,921 | Tiemer | A language where each concept is replaced with a number, intended to be used as a means for automatic translation. | |
| Interlingue | ie, ile | 1,922 | Edgar de Wahl | A sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental. |
| Novial | nov | 1,928 | Otto Jespersen | Another sophisticated naturalistic IAL by a famous Danish linguist. |
| Sona | 1,935 | Kenneth Searight | Agglutinative language with universal vocabulary. Its 360 radicals can be combined to form new words. | |
| Esperanto II | 1,937 | René de Saussure | Last of linguist Saussure's many Esperantidos. | |
| Mondial | 1940s | Dr. Helge Heimer | Naturalistic European language. | |
| Interglossa | igs | 1,943 | Lancelot Hogben | It has a strong Greco-Latin vocabulary. |
| Interlingua | ia, ina | 1,951 | International Auxiliary Language Association | A major effort to systematize the international scientific vocabulary. It aims to be immediately comprehensible by Romance language speakers and to some extent English speakers. |
| Intal | 1,956 | Erich Weferling | An effort to unite the most common systems of constructed languages. | |
| Lingua sistemfrater | 1,957 | Pham Xuan Thai | Greco-Latin vocabulary with southeast Asian grammar. | |
| Neo | neu | 1,961 | Arturo Alfandari | A very terse Esperantido. |
| Babm | 1,962 | Rikichi Okamoto | Notable for using Latin letters as a syllabary. | |
| Unilingua (now Mirad) | 1966 (revised 1967 and 2022) | Noubar Agopoff | A priori ontological vocabulary. Every letter has semantic or functional meaning. | |
| Arcaicam Esperantom | eo-arkaika | 1,969 | Manuel Halvelik | 'Archaic Esperanto', developed to produce an archaic effect in Esperanto literature. |
| Eurolengo | 1,972 | Leslie Jones | Combines elements of English and Spanish. | |
| Glosa | 1,975 | Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby | An evolution of Interglossa. | |
| Kotava | avk | 1,978 | Staren Fetcey | A sophisticated a priori IAL focused on cultural neutrality. |
| Uropi | 1,986 | Joël Landais | Based on the common Indo-European roots and the common grammatical points of the IE languages. | |
| Poliespo | 1990s? | Billy Ray Waldon | Esperanto grammar with significant Cherokee vocabulary. | |
| Romániço | 1,991 | Anonymous | Vocabulary is derived from common Romance roots. | |
| Europanto | 1,996 | Diego Marani | A "linguistic jest" by a European diplomat. | |
| Unish | 1,996 | Language Research Institute, Sejong University | Vocabulary from fifteen representative languages. | |
| Lingua Franca Nova | lfn | 1,998 | C. George Boeree and others | Romance vocabulary with creole-like grammar. |
| Sambahsa-Mundialect | 2,007 | Olivier Simon | Mixture of simplified Proto-Indo-European and other languages. | |
| Lingwa de planeta | 2,010 | Dmitri Ivanov | Worldlang based on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. |
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