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Constructed languages are opposed to natural languages, which means they didn't evolve through time but rather were created by a single person or a group for some purpose. (Note: Read Tag Wiki about this Tag usage)

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Why are some linguists and other people very much against conlangs?

There are linguists that are very much against conlanging, here are two commonly claimed reasons: It's not science. It wastes manpower, time and energy that should have been used to rescue an already existing rare natural language or do field…
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is the percentage of people studying constructed languages increasing?

It seems it is very difficult to count the people able to speak to some degree some artificial language (or maybe any language in general), for instance is Esperanto usage surging, stable, declining? I wonder if there is any other way (active use in…
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What makes a constructed language likely to gain widespread use?

There are some constructed languages that are extremely precise, yet extremely difficult (Ithkuil), some that are easy to learn, but a bit too flexible (Esperanto), and tons in between. What criteria would a constructed language have to meet to gain…
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Invented Language with Noncontradictory Grammar

A while back I came across some very recently invented language that aim to have a simple, uniform, non-contradictory grammar, but I have completely forgotten the name. It's not Esperanto. I'm sorry I can't provide much more details, but I did try…
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What did people really speak in Europe around the time and place of the setting of the movie 'the quest for fire"?

For the 1981 film, "Quest For Fire", the late linguist, Anthony Burgess, constructed a language called Ulam (or at least that was the tribe's name). Given that I'm helping a friend who's an anthropology professor with a project for the classroom —…
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Most Complete Constructed Languages

Among the relatively large set of artificial languages, how many can be considered to be "complete"? A language, in this context, would be called "complete" if it possessed all the expressive power natural languages do. Languages which were…
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Was there an attempt to create artifical language that computers understand well when spoken by human?

While now many smartphones feature the "assistant" of one or another kind, and even have dedicated buttons to invoke them, the experience with these assistants, at least for me, is invariably frustrating. Even short, trivial phrases must be repeated…
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Could an entire language be created using only smells?

If humans could create any kind of smell for someone else to experience. Could these smells be used to form a whole language? Language creates words by different sounds, so would it be as simple as chaining different sequences of smells in time to…
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Is "lolcat speak" a constructed language?

Although the language itself is whimsical, its use is widespread and evolving. There is a Lolcat translation of the bible, Oxford University Press has even lightheartedly posted a lolcat generator on the Oxford Dictionary site and there are…
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Are there any an university faculty for artificial (constructed) languages?

Are there currently any faculty on university that is dedicted for artificial languages, or has speciality for such languages? I mean, where you can study them, write Master's thesis for them, doctorise in such thematic.
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