runbau
Short form for constructed language, human languages which are not natural languages. Sometimes divided into three groups:
- artlangs, those devised for artistic purposes — either per se, or for use in fiction.
- Klingon
- Tolkien languages, which have given us tengwar
- Lᡤan
- Glaugnea
- Solresol
- Really for artistic purposes? Its purpose seems to have been IAL, the "esthetic" side — the musical version — was partly practical (tone carries farther than words and is easier to pick out in a noisy environment) and partly either a bad joke or a misunderstanding of the claim that music is the universal language (which is clearly false even when rightly understood). pc
- loglangs, more recently called engelangs (Engineered languages), those devised according to some sort of objective principles; Lojban is one of these. Also:
- auxlangs, those devised principally as IALs
- a posteriori
- Ygyde
- Unish
- Inoffensish
- a priori
- Sona (except for some borrowed radicals)
- ru'a lo me la'o ly. a priori .ly bangu ka'e se pilno fi le nu satci cusku lo smuni be lo gismu
These categories are of course overlapping.