History: conlang

Source of version: 4 (current)

''runbau'' ---- Short form for ''((constructed language))'', human languages which are not ((natural language))s. Sometimes divided into three groups: * ((artlang))s, those devised for artistic purposes -- either per se, or for use in fiction. ** ((Klingon)) ** [http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/|Tolkien languages], which have given us ((tengwar)) ** ((Láadan)) ** [http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/glaugnea.html|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 * ((loglang))s, more recently called ''((engelang|engelangs))'' (Engineered languages), those devised according to some sort of objective principles; ((Lojban language)) is one of these. * ((auxlang))s, those devised principally as ((auxlang|IAL))s ** ''a posteriori'' *** ((Esperanto)) *** [http://www.basiceng.com/|Basic English] *** [http://cheshire.net/~jjbowks/auxiling/_intglos.html|Interglossa] *** [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/2948/|Latino sine Flexione] *** [http://www.interlingua.com/|Interlingua] *** [http://members.aol.com/dkcsac/myhomepage/romanova.htm|Romanova] *** ((New conlang|Mondlango)) ** ((Ygyde)) ** [http://www.unish.org|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.