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DaraghM
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13 March 2008 at 12:10pm | IP Logged 
Apart from Esperanto, and Klingon, are there any other widely known artificial languages ? If this has been dicussed before, I couldn't find the thread.

As Esperanto is heavily influenced by the Indo European languages, has any attempt been made to construct an Artificial language based on a different language family ?
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rob
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13 March 2008 at 1:34pm | IP Logged 
Two that automatically come to mind are Interlingua and Lojban. Though here is a full list:

Blissymbol · Enochian · Esperanto · Glosa · Ido · Interlingua · Ithkuil · Klingon · Láadan · Lingua Franca Nova · Lingua Ignota · Loglan · Lojban · Nadsat · Newspeak · Novial · Quenya · Sindarin · Solresol · Teonaht · Toki Pona · Verdurian · Volapük

Good ol' Wikipedia :-)
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Zorndyke
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13 March 2008 at 1:58pm | IP Logged 
DaraghM wrote:

As Esperanto is heavily influenced by the Indo European languages, has any attempt been made to construct an Artificial language based on a different language family ?

Yes, Quenya is based on Finnish for all I know.
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DaraghM
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14 March 2008 at 6:15am | IP Logged 
Thanks Rob. My Wikipedia search skills need a lot of training. I never heard of Blissymbol before, but now I'm fascinated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbol

I wonder could if be used as a metalanguage, so once mastered, it would be used to annotate a text rather then an L1 ?

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14 March 2008 at 10:02am | IP Logged 
Slovio is an artificial pan slavic language, supposed to be comprehensible to all Slav and Baltic language speakers. What I have read in it would suggest that is probably true.
http://www.slovio.com/

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14 March 2008 at 11:03am | IP Logged 
Is it right to say that Esperanto is an Indo European language?
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14 March 2008 at 11:48am | IP Logged 
delectric wrote:
Is it right to say that Esperanto is an Indo European language?


No, for several reasons.
- It's artificial/constructed, so didn't directly descend/evolve from any language.
- The grammar is rather unlike that of any Indo-European language I'm aware of.

The vocabulary is fairly Indo-European, but the way words are constructed is not.

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14 March 2008 at 12:05pm | IP Logged 
What about the elf languages Tolkien created for Lord of the Rings. They're are people that write and speak in these Elf languages to other people that understand these languages.


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