/th/ Lang, The

[Jonathana Tegire]

Abakwi

James Finley writes, "Abakwi is an agglutinating language with a simple grammar and a naturalistic sound, spoken by the Ndake of the Mamberamo Basin. Tak-ungg'u q'e, makamak-ul'Edoba q'ubara-sha, shatash-ang-ish'e. 'You well know, that the Edoba would feast on their own mothers if it were not tabu.'" [James Finley]

Adawa

[Bruce Foerster]

Adelic

With a vocabulary derived from Indo-European roots along lines similar to, but distinct from, the Germanic family of languages, Adelic has a rich internal history, giving it the sound and texture of an old European language and making it well suited for gaming. The site features a grammar, sample texts, a unique script and a dictionary with over 2,000 words. [Scott MacLagan]

Adin

[Nathaniel Knight]

Adjuvilo

[Cola/Esperema]

Adûnaic

The language of Númenor, the lost continent of Atlantis. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Aeks Nótrï Nódikem

Aeks is intended for the artist, designed to have ultimate flexibility in structure and vocabulary while maintaining logic through affixes that designate position in sentence structure. [Niki Eve White]

Ælitian

It's basically a modified form of Latin. The most notable of the differences is the pronunciation. Other differences include an alternate grammar and word order. [Matthew See]

Aeo

It only has three phonemes, for crying out loud! Yay! [Jonathana Tegire]

Aertran

Aertran is the language of the elves in the World of Hexalthermia. Like all Aertran languages, it has affixes to determine plurality (singular, dual, plural, total) and case (nominative, accusative, dative, locative). In Aertran, verbs, not nouns, have gender, and the word order in a sentence changes slightly depending on the gender of the verb. [A.B. Basham]

Ålaku

[Rory]

Almalinian

Unlike some of the more aesthetic conlangs out there which often have fairly complex grammatical rules, Almalinian was created to be both highly beautiful and grammatically simple so that it could be quickly learned. [Bryant K.]

Alpha Smart

[Jack Durst]

Alurhsa

Large number of phonemes, heavy diacritic use. [Anthony Harris]

Anaqaen

The most unique aspect of Anaqaen is the use of vowel morphing to show tense and number. Also, the language uses suffixes (and a couple of prefixes) to replace certain pronouns and adjectives (mostly the articles). [Chris Bouchard]

Ancallon languages

Ancallon is a continent created for an RPG (role-playing game) campaign. The eight main languages of Ancallon are each described in just a paragraph or two; some are based on natural languages (English, Welsh, Irish), while the others are invented (Konamoata is patterned on Hawaiian, and Banrok provides the obligatory :-) ergative language). [Aran Kuntze]

An'dorian

While less well known than the officially sanctioned Klingon language, An'dorian is as richly developed and represents the language of the blue-skinned Andorians from the original Star Trek TV series. Over 3000 words are defined, along with a grammar and sample texts. Andorian has eight noun classes and an elaborate TMA system. [Spence Hill]

Anglo-Saxon Computerese

Not every constructed language has to be large and complex. Anglo-Saxon Computerese is the hundred or so terms you would need to be able to talk about computers in Anglo-Saxon (Old English). Most terms are compounds of real Anglo-Saxon words: for instance, the word for "computer" is circolwyrde. [Carl T. Berkhout]

Anikin

Anikin is a speakable version of Tolkien's in a mix with "real" languages. At the same time, it sounds (on the one hand) very nice, and (on the other hand) it has a quite regular grammar. [Felix Brender]

Anklis

Anklis has changed dramatically over the past year that I have been working on it. Anklis has been heavily inspired by some of the ideas of Basic Anglo-Saxon English and features only words derived from Germanic languages. More on this will be explained when I post a language history. It is still based on Modern American English, but with various sound changes and shifts, as well as a phonetic alphabet and simplification of grammar rules. Website will be up soon. [Martin Ferretti]

Antapa

This language was developed for the fantasy story "Song about the Nothern Star". The language has two faces: an ornamental and time-wasting eminent one and an somehow malicious and fizzing second one. [Jan Havlis]

Apralios

Apralios is an important language (in its speakers' eyes especially) in Thegim (my conworld), spoken in the country of Apralos and numerous neighboring countries. [Christopher Mules]

Aquitan

[Frances de Vilalonga]

Arēsæd

[Drydic_Guy]

Aran'Esei

It was spawned from three other conlangs: Manda'aran, Proto-Esei, and Manashu-Ka. It has an interesting abjad (not on the Web). [Eric the Best]

Arêndron

[Michael S. Repton]

Arnira

[Kelahäth Ohar]

Asmeni

The language plays a similar role on the planet Asamen that English plays on Earth: the most widely spoken second language, used in commerce and diplomacy. It has many grammatical features that I have not been able to trace but also many that are in real languages. [Kári Emil Helgason]

Ašnaî

Ašnaî is a tonal polysynthetic conlang that focuses on the noun, and uses a syllabary. [Maknas]

Asrord-Dânis

[Asier]

Atevi

Atevi is dependant upon math to keep the sentences harmonious & not infelicitious. [C.J.Cherryh; Rodlox]

Attrendian

This language makes use of a good deal of inflexion, providing a good deal of versatility in meaning. For example, the noun has three possible "spheres of existence" in that suffixes are added to a noun to denote its existence in the domestic, communal or natural sphere. [Kevin R. VanDenBreemen]

Aulingese

[Andre Steffens]

Avarin

A separate language family from Eldarin (which contains all the other Elvish tongues covered here), Avarin is almost completely unexplored. If you ever wanted to derive your own Elvish language, you can invent an Avarin tongue, descended from Primitive Elvish. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Ayeis

It has a vocabulary of Indo-European/Germanic style but an original grammar, mostly based on my own invention and from some pre-Indo-European languages. I intend the vocabulary to be related to some other languages of my invention, but it has many relations with Indo-European and Uralic roots. [Asier G.]

Ayeri

A trigger language with many nasals, liquids, and /a/'s. [Carsten Becker]

Ayhan

What used to be known as Saalangal is now Ayhan. The name change was made to simplify it, and also because it reflects the change from something unsettled to something that I've finally decided needed to stay grounded, rather than scatterbrained. I've still kept its Philippine bent, but I've changed the verbs (it is sadly no-longer a trigger language, that bone of contention which had kept the language from settling down). However, it still has a very South East Asian Austronesian flavor, on the surface, but is still very much my own creation, pulling bits of grammar that I rather like. [Barry Garcia]

Baanzish

[Rupert A.H. Barnes]

Babalo

"Ajin Kwai is the author of this language, I simply posted on the Auxilingua Project website the information I was sent on projects by this language author." --J. Bowks 6JUL2004 [Ajin Kwai]

Baronh

Language of the Abh people from Morioka's novel, Seikai no Monshou ("Crest of the Stars"). The grammar and common words and unique alphabet can be found in his novel "Seikai"-series and in anime based on his novels. [Hiroyuki Morioka]

Barsoomian

The language of Edgar Rice Burrough's Martian series (A Princess Of Mars, The Gods Of Mars, Warlord Of Mars, etc.) added greatly to the verisimilitude of Barsoom and inspired many constructed language designers. [Edgar Rice Burroughs]

Barushlani

Barushlani is a pronominalizing language with three genders (gods & men; women, children and animals; and inanimate). Gender is shown in the verb. The language is also a showcase for the Kura linguistic description application. [Boudewijn Rempt]

Basic Anglo-Saxon English

An unimaginative derivative of Basic English, replacing all words not of Anglo-Saxon origin. [Jeffrey Henning]

Biyuron

[Pablo Flores]

Blaaninian

Blaaninian is a succinct and flexible language, designed in theory to sound like a cross between ancient Greek and Hebrew, although this is not always achieved in practice. [Lord Blaa]

Black Speech

A dark language for dark deeds. A language to rhyme rings of power in. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Bogomol

[Terrence Donnelly]

Borg

[Terrence Donnelly]

Bruceish

Bruceish is (obviously) an artificial language I have been working on for the past two weeks. I aimed to minimize irregularity and create a simple (yet effective, if slightly ambiguous) way to quickly turn roots into more usable words. It is still very much a work in progress; the PDF I have supplied explains only basic grammar and perhaps a hundred or so roots. Eventually, I will add a more complete explanation of the mechanics and perhaps post some poetry that I have written in it. [Bruce A. Brejta]

Brujeric

Brujeric (also called Franco-Castilian) is a Romance language invented for an epic fantasy I plan to write sometime in the near future. It essentially blends a very Spanish phonetic system with a rather French lexicography, but it also has a few direct Latinisms as well as a few unique emergent attributes to add to the sense of authenticity. Grammar is a roughly equal blend of French and Spanish influences. [Gregory H. Bontrager]

C-24

C-24 utilizes Disambiguating Polysemy. [Anthony Docimo]

Calénnawn

Calénnawn is spoken by the humanoid bipeds (cúsibe) on the planet Caléntuy in the solar system of Ingúded. There are regional and cultural differences in pronunciation and usage. Calénnawn is one of the first languages in which I cultivated exceptions, as elements to make the language interesting. [René Uittenbogaard]

Çanil

Çanil contrasts short and long consonants and vowels, uses ablaut grammatically, and has a vertical script. [Maknas]

Ca'olaeg

The language was formerly called Nochpaq and then Noshbhasa.

Cetonian

If you have ever wondered what language whales might speak, you will be interested in Cetonian, the language that the extraterrestrial cetaceans of the planet Wuiou (called Cetonia in English). All words are made up out of eight syllables, each approximating a sound that can be made by the cetacean's blowhole: ha, ho, hui, ma, o, u, wa, and wui. A typical sentence is huiuwui.ha.uhuiu.wui.ho.huiwaho, "The dolphin bit the fish." Landau looked to the songs of Terran whales and dolphins for inspiration. [James E. F. Landau]

Ch-m Tlondor

Almost all of Tlondor's words are bound morphemes; i.e., they must combine with other morphemes to create words. A noun typically consists of a set of consonants such as n-m- "person"; a verb is generally a suffix such as -achax "speak"; aspect is an infix such as -o- (progressive); they combine morphologically to create a sentence (nomachax, "the/a person is speaking"). [Jeff Lilly]

Chusole

Chusole is the language of the Empire of Kiarlon in the land of Korhano, a fictional setting that includes a number of other languages and cultures as well. It is not terribly unusual in terms of Earthly languages, but as it develops, it should reflect the culture and history of the Kiarloni people. A grammar, lexicon, and script are currently under construction. [Glenn Kempf]

Cilthic

Cilthic is an attempt to combine concepts and features from several Earth languages in such a fashion as to create a foreign yet familiar tongue. This philosophy is mirrored in the associated fantasy conworld project, Sorukan, which I have tried to make familiar yet non-clichéd. [Daniel S. Andersen]

Ciravesu

Cispa

Miller has invented quite a few languages spoken by the furry aliens of Mizar, including Cispa, for which he has published on the Web a font for the Cispa alphabet, a short grammar and a dictionary. [Herman Miller]

Clalia

Tries a different type of grammar and syntax. At least in relation to my other conlangs. Phonology also a bit different from other conlangs. [John]

Coastal Zein

[Drydic_Guy]

Conlangs of Destruction

Constructed Language #4892

Justin B. Rye wrote, "Of all the toy languages I've sketched out over the years, this is the only one I've built to order! A friend offered to pay me a few quid (or was it pints?) if I'd give him a language suitable for use as background colour in a roleplaying campaign he ran... I didn't even take the step of naming my brainchild - it just received a tongue-in-cheek serial number. The contrast with the stereotypical in-depth approach just made it more fun!" [Justin B. Rye]

Corint

[Daniel Andreasson]

Criollo

[Chlewey Thompin]

Curco

It's a typical sample of inflecting SOV languages, but it's different from the rest of my languages in that it's derived from another one, with a lot of carefully studied changes. Curco is a bastard child of Draseléq , where the baroque exuberance of the parent language have crashed against a new a much more simple lingua franca, Ciravesu , showing pidginizing tendencies. It's the only language I've made that is derived from another full-fledged constructed language. [Pablo Flores]

Ða difî

Language of the Þyndw/Thyndw of the Planet of Âbrygûn/Æbrygûn/Aebryguan/Abrigon. The Þyndw/Thyndw are a peace-loving semi-elven race. [Jonathan North Washington]

Dael

[Dallin Woolstenhulme]

Daléian

[Carsten Becker]

Darseni

[Libor Sztemon]

Darynese

Darynese was my first real language attempt, so I did end up making it OVS... it didn't occur to me that there might be a reason why most languages have the subject proceed the object. [Rebecca Harbison]

Dekavurian

Dekavurian is the name of yet another of the languages which is, or rather will be, featured in my book. The variety presented here, properly referred to as Classical Dekavurian or Common Dekavurian, is supposed to have been spoken by colonists who arrived in the south-east of the land in which the early Liotans were then living, and is thus contemporary with Proto-Liotan. [Geoff Eddy]

Delason

Delason is the fictional language of the fictional Mediterranean country of Salamon. Delason's phonology is "a regularized marriage of Spanish and Modern Hebrew." Its vocabulary is drawn from 20 natural languages; unfortunately, etymologies aren't listed on the site. The language has its own script, visible using Internet Explorer or Netscape version 4.0 or later browsers, if dynamic fonts are enabled (otherwise the text will simply appear twice). [Nizar Habash]

Delendian

Delendian or Dyalintí is a simple language, so it shouldn't be too difficult to learn, though it would not be classified as a logical language. [John Shilpetski IV]

Dementian

Dementian is an incredibly easy language to learn. You never need to learn much, because similar words are all alike, as in the case of where, here and there, which are omibu, omiba and omibo. Read the Phrasebook (unfinished), and you will understand more of my concept. [Jeremy Boyd]

Denden

Denden is a fictional-world lingua franca used on the northern continent of Andal, with real-world inspiration drawn from French, Classical Chinese, Classical Tibetan and Nepali. The site features a grammar and sample texts. Denden has a vocabulary of over 1800 words. [Boudewijn Rempt]

Den'Ksie

[Marie Winger]

Descubralía

[Dazi]

Deymual

Deymual - The language of the Elves of Câlnima. It's a prepositionally based language. [Jonathan North Washington]

Dhemonh'ka

This small language was invented for AmberMUSH, a MUD, to be the language of Chaosian demons (Dhemonh'ka means "demon language"). The orthography, pronunciation and vocabulary of Dhemonh'ka was inspired by Klingon.

Diallic

A highly versatile and regular verb system and unusually expressive adverbial suffixes. [Blake Adams]

Diarenye

Diarenye is my first language. It is the common tongue of the world Dior, and it is spoken from the Bay of Dwarves (Vardisjacg) to the World's Point (Telos Point.) [Aaron Morse]

Diom

[David Stokes]

Divine Language, The

The language is supposedly the root of all human tongues. It's spoken by Leeloo in the movie The Fifth Element, and only bits and pieces of it are available. It's an interesting language to say the least. The URL listed appears to be the only place where the language is even considered. Every other page is just a fan-boy of the movie itself. [Luc Besson]

Doraya

Doraya is the language of an imaginary world consisting of the regions of Mofeva, Doryn and Rooken. The most fascinating part of the language is the relative roles of nouns and verbs. Verbs are invariable, while nouns take special modifiers to indicate tense. The subject typically is modified for tense, and the direct object may be modified for tense as well. A sample sentence: so silidae e silinae sorn, 'until future-you and future-me are together', "Until I see you again." [Adam Parrish]

Dozhu:n

[Apollo Hogan]

Draconian

Draconic (Lovarin)

Draconic is meant to be the language of the dragons in Lovarin. It has only a few hundred native speakers scattered about the world who only use it rarely. It is difficult to pronounce and has a tricky grammar. Sentences tend to be long due to difficult clusters, long word length, and extensive use of particles. Rather than semantic opposites (good/bad), the lexicon is mostly based around semantic triplets. [Ikkakujyu]

Draseléq

Linguistic uniqueness: no elements in the language are really unique, but their combination is, unless some incredible coincidence has happened. Among rare traits (for speakers of Western languages) are the adjectives being merged with verbs, and verbs having a lot of room for derivational morphology, making it possible to say, for example, "having been officially commanded to punish oneself again" in one word. Personal uniqueness: it's the only language I've made with which I've been able to write stories and poems, and translate big chunks of things I love, like the Lord of the Rings. [Pablo Flores]

Drow

[A. Michelle Simmons]

Dundein Vega

[Gustavo Salvini]

Dunnek

[Terrence Donnelly]

Dununmi

[Yiuel]

Durdekors

Durdekors illustrates how a small language with a unique vocabulary can add verisimilitude to a setting. I created it years ago for a role-playing game and then forgot all about it; I just re-discovered it by accident. [Jeffrey Henning]

Dwarfin

It is spoken by the dwarves of Dagorthoria.

Eastron

It is a mix of Tolkien's Westron (hence the name), Old English and Welsh. [Jonathan R Parsons]

Ebisédian

Ebisédian is well-known for its other-worldliness due to its being set in a fictional universe that has radically different physical laws, and for its aptitude in causing dramatic distortions to relay texts. However, beneath the surface, what distinguishes it the most linguistically is its unique typology, in which the active voice and the passive voice are one and the same, expressed through a unique semantically-based case system. So far, no one has been able to name a natlang that has a similar typology; yet once one understands it, it makes sense and feels quite natural. [H. S. Teoh]

Elephant's Memory

[Timothy Ingen Housz]

Ellandh

The language is meant to symbolize the possible speech of the Elves, yet -- because of a character of the world they inhabit -- the language has been influenced by the Simplified English vocabulary derived from today's English as the Men arrived in the land of the Ellan. The Elvish runic font is also reachable at the page. [Jedrzej Gren]

Eloram

Includes infixes to indicate verb tense, as well as auxiliaries to modify tense and mood. [Daniel Myers]

Eloshtan

[Josh Roth]

Entish

The language of the Ents of Middle Earth. "It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it." [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Eretas

It was spoken in a place similar to the Mediterranean between 500 BC and 500 AD. It is the only conlang I know of that is fluid-S, nominative-absolutive. [Keith Gaughan]

Eskimo

This is a parody of the urban legend of 100 Eskimo words for snow. [Phil James]

Espanzë

Espanzë - originally intended as French+Spanish language (originally Espançais), but it became a "lost language" when I lost the only sheet of paper on it in a Hebrew book (I found it much later). But I recreated it and gave it a history and culture for a novel that I'm writing. [Jonathan North Washington]

Europanto

The author writes, "Just as Latin was replaced first by Vulgar Latin and then by Italian, Anglo-American English will give way first to international English and then to Europanto, the difference being that this process will take place far more quickly... although it is not a language as such, Europanto does exist. But it is, as yet, rather amorphous and any attempt to try and describe the language and write down its grammatical rules would be rather like planting a seed and wanting to take a photograph of the tree." [Diego Marani]

Eyahwánsi

A language spoken by plains people, which should be fairly easy with respect to vocabulary, grammar, orthography, and phonology. [René Uittenbogaard]

Fegiartische

[John]

Ferengi

Ferengi is another language that Timothy Miller has invented for a Star Trek race of aliens (the other is Cardassian). Perhaps Miller hopes to become the next Marc Okrand (inventor of Klingon, and the only language modeler to be making much money from his invention). Miller has detailed the grammar and lexicon of Ferengi, as well as the alphabet. [Timothy Miller]

Ferismonlaren

Fith

While most alien conlangs use grammars that follow the universal grammar of humans, Fith specifically violates linguistic universals and could never be spoken by a human in actual practice. The grammar is based on the principals of a LIFO (Last In First Out) data structure ("stack"). Humans can translate Fithian texts that have been written down, but due to the nature of the grammar - where words can be spoken long before their semantic role, if any, is apparent - no human could learn to translate Fith in real time, due to the demands Fith places on memory, introducing words before they are used and rearranging the order of words on the fly. [Jeffrey Henning]

Florish

An aggluginating VSO language. The appearance is like that of Finnish, mostly consisted of long words with endings instead of separate articles, etc. The sound structure was borrowed from Quechua, except I removed /ch/, /ñ/, /ll/ and /w/ and added /v/. Aside from /d/ in the cluster /and/, /v/ is the only voiced non-nasal consonant in the language. Most words are original, but Finnish and Quechua inspired some of them. [Kata Valinta]

Fonymfin

Fonymfin contains a difference between animacy and inanimacy concerning verbs, and a difference between being concrete or abstract concerning nouns. It also has five cases. Grammar and dictionary will be posted shortly. [Simon Mulder]

Fungarr

Spoken by an extreme minority in Scandinavia, Fungarr has a small following in America. Almost extinct. [Obar Norrseg]

Futurese

Futurese is the American Language as it might be in 3000 AD. [Justin B Rye]

Gaciça

[Ted Kloba]

G'amah

It's not a human language, so I expect it to be different from most human languages, though it's too soon to tell yet (the language is less than two months old when I write this). It's got a purposefully difficult phonology, which I doubt any human language has, and a strange case system mixing the (already rare) ergative/absolutive system with our familiar nominative/accusative system, according to the person of the subject and object. It doesn't have third person pronouns (not that strange, really -- Latin didn't either), and it has five levels of deixis: things on the speaker's power, things at hand, things within sight, things not within sight but perceived by smell, touch or intuition, and things outside the reach of one's senses. This deixis system is, as far as I know, unique. [Pablo Flores]

Gevey

Gevey has been brewing for over 25 years, and has developed a number of idiosyncrasies during that time. For instance, the concept of "object status" is highly important in the language. The detachable relative clauses are fairly unique (using a system of conjunctions inspired by switch case). "Associated" and "dissociated" forms of each noun are also a central part of the language. [Rik Roots]

Gilish

Gilish is the language of the Dwarves. It has hard sounds. It is one of my languages that actually has articles. [Jordan Lavender]

Gladilatian

Gladilatian lacks verbs, with every sentence being a copula, and each conjunction consists of one word before the last conjunct and another before each of the other conjuncts. Syntax is strict. Vocabulary is a priori. The site has a dictionary of 300 words, a grammar, sample texts and a unique script. [Dennis Paul Himes]

Glide

[Slattery, O'Neil]

Golal Natkali

[Betsumei]

Golic Vulcan

With no canonical Vulcan to rival Klingon (and with Gene Roddenberry never developing much more than the naming conventions and a few words), Star Trek fans have been creating their own versions of the language: Marketa Zvelebil's Modern Standard Vulcan, Mark R. Gardner's Golic Vulcan and Joel Anderson's Vulcan. [Gene Roddenberry]

Grooiman

[William James Tychonievich]

Guask

An imaginary language of the Basque region.

Hallowese

Hallowese was invented to add verisimilitude to a staged haunted house. [Robert L. Vaessen]

Hambhukringki

[Russian]

Hamdi

Designed to be naturalistic. It uses a Nominative/Absolutive case structure and agglutinative verbs, which lack any inflection for tense. [K La Touche]

Hapoish

[James E. F. Landau]

Huttese

Huttese is the language of Jabba the Hutt and other members of the Hutt species in the Star Wars universe.

Hyilté

Hyilté is a pleasant sounding language with some unique sounds not, as yet, used in most languages. It is possibly one of the only fictional languages whose author is only 12 years old. There are enough sound shifts, grammatical exceptions and so on to make it reasonably believable. It has a flare of Robinish in it as well, which is why I like it. [Robin Morton]

Ii42hah32reh12man41

[Jonathana Tegire and Jaaaaaa]

Ilaini

Probably nothing. Everything about it turns out to exist somewhere already, though not all in the same place. [Irina Rempt]

Ilathid'hi

Ilathid'hi is a mostly a priori language designed for the Ages of Ilathid game project, an all-volunteer project to make an adventure game in the Myst world by Cyan Worlds. [Scott 'Blade' Hamilton]

Ilish

Ilish is the language family of the il, a species of sentient sea creatures of Fithia (see Fith), which communicate by sending electrical shocks to one another. Ilish is unusual in that it has no nouns, but instead uses thousands of pronouns. [Jeffrey Henning]

Illfillin

It has eight cases; singular, dual and plural, prepositions are postpositions (they come after the nouns or adjectives), nouns and adjectives are masculine and feminine with traces of lost neuter gender. Language has 19 consonants (indluding /th/ and /dh/) and 10 vowels. [Uskokovic Vuk]

Iltârer

Iltârer is the language of the Iltâr, one of the Thekashi peoples. There are two forms of the language, but the southern form is not currently documented. There were some interactions with other Thekashi languages, but the influence on Iltârer has been minimal. [Tom Little (Sêsâmân)]

Ilythirri Alurl

Ilythiiri Alurl is an elder, conservative version of "standard" (Low) Drow language. Whilst Low Drow is used by the Ilythiiri (Drow elves) with non-Drow races and in common conversation, High Drow is restricted to formal circles and ritual purposes. To be fluent in High Drow marks one as not only educated but also of considerable rank in society. In many ways it functions not only as a class marker but as a secret code -- fiercely guarded by the nobles and priesthood as 'privledged knowledge', it can be used to converse privately even when surrounded by other (non-noble) Drow. [Jashan A'al]

Inagalasi

Inagalasi's main uniqueness is its extremely rigid and logical structure. All words have perfect consonant-vowel alternation, and there are only two parts of speech, nouns (ending in vowels) and verbs (ending in consonants). [civman2000]

Inda

Inda is ergative and features an interesting grammar, with adjectives treated as verbs (as in Japanese). The pronunciation system is also interesting, with consonants undergoing assimilation in different positions. Higley plans to provide more background about the fictional Indarans and their culture, and of course how that has affected their language. [Gregory Higley]

Ini

[Nicole Perrin]

Inter Celtic

[Makeenan]

Islandian

A language that died with its author Austin Tappan Wright (1883-1931). [Austin Tappan Wright]

Islet

It is intended to be a minimal language, with very few components or rules of grammar. [Daniel Myers]

Islic Wood Elvish

Wood Elvish is unique in that it is very rich in sounds. Of all the Islic (the location, not the family) languages, it has one of the greatest numbers of vowels, some of which are unique to the language. Wood Elvish is also well-endowed with consonants, some of which are unique to it. The verbs have many tenses, three numbers and two moods, and the nouns have many cases, three genders and three numbers. [Curtis Mullings]

J'ækatá

No true adjectives; instead of 'beautiful', one would say 'of beauty'. Differing dialectic phonemes. [Sean Bradt]

Jasminese

Jasminese is an eclectic blend of Asian, African, and Amerindian influences. [Victor Medrano]

Javifo

Jechoire

Spoken in an invented land, Jechoire is a conlang that is easy to pronounce but with a not so easy grammar. It is full of personality. [Rubén Ortega]

Jelbazech

[Deiniol Jones]

Jirit

Jirit is the language of the Mizarian mice people. Only about 22 words of vocabulary are listed here, but the language is interesting for its agglutinative morphology, which makes its grammar very straightforward. [Herman Miller]

Jylsk

[Alex Middleton]

Kæseran

The alphabet for the language has two versions. The formal, which was derived from Kanji radicals; the informal, by the modern Georgian alphabet. The formal alternates from left-to-right and right-to-left; the informal left-to-right. [Alex Alfaro]

Kaldon

Not overly unique, but I think the idea of making Interogative pronouns and Optative verb moods into noun inflections is very different. The language has 800 words (not all online yet). [Warmaster]

Kaliso

[Jashan]

Kalonese

The entire vocabulary is completely invented, with very few influences as to its grammar and verbal fluency. [David J.S. Boyle]

Kankonian

Kankonian offers one of the larger lexicons on the Web, with a dictionary of over 5,500 words. This extraterrestrial language is vaguely reminescent of the tongues of the Middle East, but it is based directly on no human language, with the vocabulary designed according to the author's sense of the most natural set of sounds for each idea. [James E. F. Landau]

Kansu

Kansu has postpositions, strict SOV syntax, an aspect-tense system and a really cool pronominal system, featuring contemptuous second person pronouns! [Dan Morrison]

Kar Marinam

[Josh Roth]

Kardasi

This is an unofficial language for the Cardassians, a race of aliens that are key to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series. [Timothy Miller]

Kardii

Official Language of the Shela Kingdoms [Jayelinda Suridge]

Karis

[Maknas]

Kash

[Roger Mills]

Kattoelai

Kattoelai has a unique phonology and grammar, and is the ancestor for a large portion of other constructed languages. One unique grammatical idea is the use of circumfixes (two-part affixes). [J.T. Antley]

Kélen

"Learning about universals made me wonder what a language would be like that violated them. So Kélen became my laboratory for exploring the line between a human and a non-human language. There are a few inherent difficulties to this task. For one thing, since we haven't found any intelligent aliens, there are no non-human languages to look at for comparison. So, my strategy was to take a universal (namely, all languages have large open classes of nouns and verbs) and violate it. So, Kélen lost all of its verbs and became a language of nouns and particles." - Sylvia Sotomayor [Sylvia Sotomayor]

Kemilas

Kemilas is an attempt to revive the ancient Egyptian language. [Robert L. Brown III]

Khangaþyagon

Khangaþyagon is an agglutinating, VSO language with adjective-verb compounding. It is the original language of the world on which it is spoken, and the only one in which magical spells can be formulated. [Pete Bleackley]

Khundruzn

[Nicole Perrin]

Khurwich

Kiadin

It, if spoken fluently, can be quite interesting. [DarkHorizon]

Kika Olelo

[Eclipse/Turquoise]

Kìn-Sang

Kìn-Sang is an inflecting language with Asian-like phonology. It has two tones. It depends heavily on clitics mixing with its worn down inflectional system. [Kári Emil Helgason]

Kinya

The Kinya language has no verbs. [Maurizio Gavioli]

Kioshu

Annexes: a bit like particles in Japanese and prepositions in English. [Jeff Goguen]

Kir

[Jashan A'al]

Klingon

The most popular fictional language today, with more speakers and more enthusiasts than even Tolkien's Quenya. Okrand invented the Klingon language for Star Trek, and there are many commercial products available to help with learning the language, including a dictionary, audiotapes and a multimedia software tutor. [James Doohan, Marc Okrand]

Knarwaz

[Pablo Flores]

Korpesk

[Shawn C. Knight]

Kosi

Kosi is a Uralic language in many ways; it uses ablaut and many aspects, however. [Robert Jung]

Kot

Kot is a partially agglutinative language, with a simple but bit long grammar. It is placed in an imaginary island in the Atlantic Ocean about 400 BC. It is not an Indo-European language but its birthplace is Northern Europe. By migrating across Europe and Africa, it absorbed many features of Indo-European and Semitic languages. [Bucchianeri Marco]

Kugzogak

Kugzogak only has 4 regular and 4 mutated consonants, and three vowels. It has a fairly simple grammar and a fairly ugly orthography. [Tom Killingbeck]

Kupo

Richard Knight writes, "[Moogles are a] strange creature normally seen in the worlds of the Final Fantasy or Secret of Mana game series [...that] have a strange ball hanging from their heads... The native language of Moogles is Kupo, a limited dialect that may rely upon the strange ball to get across meaning. According to researchers, the entire language seems based upon the terms Kupo, Kupoppo, and Po, occasionally in arrangements. No other race has successfully managed to speak their dialect as of yet."

Kwaadakw

Its phonology is modeled on Native Indian languages with the phonemes /kw/, /gw/, /qw/, and /xw/. "7" is used as a letter to symbolize a glottal stop, as in some Native Indian languages. It has an Object-Verb-Subject (OVS) sentence structure. [Victor Medrano]

Kwendyngu

The lexicon is primarily based on Proto-Indo-European, but with a decidedly non-Indo-European grammar, in which verbs are seen as the primary part of speech, but words can change from one part to another by initial mutations. [Ceisiwr Serith]

L17

L17 is a rare kind of conlang which is based on Australian Aboriginal languages. [Victor Medrano]

Lahabic

The Lahabic system of compounding allows the retention of the cases of the original independent word. Lahabic is also distinctive in its system of relative tense and pronominal mood/voice indicators (PMI). [Marcus Miles]

Laikath

Lakal/Saradic

Lakal and Saradic are possibly more dialects than separate languages. They share a flexional grammar and have similar vocabulary. PJS has put together one of the better Role-Playing Game settings in his Sarandur Campaign for RuneQuest. While he's been running it for ten years, PJS became serious about the language settings five years ago. A zipped LangMaker/Win LEX file generates Saradic, Lakal, Kirjathan or Vanarite names and derives words from old Lakari. [Certic]

Language of Center, The

The language itself is quite unique, in that it's never actually spoken in the book directly, but translated straight into English, with some literal English examples given. There's no actual sample of the language. [Robert A. Heinlein]

Lanrohidh'il

The vocabulary is completely unique. It is intended to be the language of dragons in the mythology I'm inventing. [Alison Fisher]

Larenti Tergush

It possesses a somewhat unique syntax and approach to forming sentences and deciding what they mean, due to its (fictional) very simplistic origins. It takes the philosophy that the most natural type of word is the verb, because it describes and expresses the act of the universe happening. The language has about a thousand words, not yet online. [Tiogshi Laj]

Late Réziko

Late Réziko is the closest descendant of (Early) Réziko, though it has experienced some major phonological changes, such as the loss of its lateral fricatives and how it now distinguishes aspirated and unaspirated stops. [J.T. Antley]

Laval

It was created for a micronation. An accent mark was recently borrowed from Spanish. The letter "y" is not used in the script, instead "i" + vowel combinations make its sound. Has many terms for greetings, mostly inventions. [M. Martin]

Lepidopteran (Ze)

Entirely a conceptual language. [Dazi]

Lesdekan

The language conforms to a personal definition of beauty and logic. It is spoken by a twenty-first century European conculture with a history that has been worked into the real world. The site includes "live" Lesdekan sports results in season. [David Johnson (Sonib)]

Ley Arah

[Jashan A'al]

Li' Anyerra-Tarah

It has SVO for ordinary (active) sentences and VS(O) for stative sentences, which tend to be used where passives would be used in English. [Wesley Parish]

Limciela

[Jim Taylor]

Lin

Lin incorporates nine-fold polysemy ("enneasemy") in its lexicon, where vocabulary is disambiguated through inter-word morphology. This, and the use of single- and double-letter words for the most commonly used concepts, makes Lin spatially compact. [Skrintha]

Liniyai-Karmisa

The extensive use of cases and the verb tenses. [Eric Anger]

Llathos

[Pharazon]

Long Wer

Ga Long Wer, e-ngwa téma yae. - "What is Long Wer, no one can say." Long Wer is a language I created for my "animal fantasy" novel Hia and Mau. It is the language of Cats and other felines of our age. It is intended to be musical and well-sounding. Its basic vocabulary is from Egyptian, and as it is, mainly VSO, though it has a lot of cases and agglutinates words for everything. LW belongs to the Meyadhewic language family, whose child languages descend from Archaic Meyadhew. a language spoken by the carnivores of our Earth around 65 million years ago. LW is the language of the feline culture, education and literature. I have a lot of texts in LW, as many translations as native LW ones. For more info, see the web site. [Sophia Abraham (Ábrahám Zsófia) aka Mau Rauser]

Loroi Trade

Loroi Trade is a fictional language devised for the science fiction webcomic "Outsider". It represents an interstellar "lingua franca" used as a language of trade and diplomacy between the various alien races of the region. [Jim Francis]

Low Orkish

Low Orkish (of an ilk with Kordron) has but eleven different letters in its alphabet, and the language freely borrows words from other languages (such as English). The language was designed to give the author's MUD personas more flavor, and to annoy the other players. [Merle D. Zimmermann]

Lûá

The first sound in each word is determined by the element to which the word belongs (spirit, air, water, or earth). [Fen Yik]

Ludireo

[Herman Miller]

Lugasuese

This language is the "Westron" of Aranii, my conworld. It is originally from Lugasa, the biggest land of Arannii. [Jurre Lagerwaard]

Machi

[Terrence Donnelly]

Mærik

The phonology of Mærik is based on Old Swedish. [Benct Philip Jonsson]

Malacandrian

This language is somewhat of a lingua franca on Malacandra (our Mars) in Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. [C. S. Lewis]

Mango

Inspired by Sanskrit, Hindi-Urdu and other Indian languages, Mango is the language of the Tiger people of planet Pii, featured in a personal roleplaying game. Tigers' respect for nature, women and agriculture rules the Mango language. Their disgust for crimes of violence, the Leopard people and their sneering attitude for literacy and studying are also reflected in their language. The lexicon has over 10,000 words. [Natalia Gruscha]

Mannish

Some of the less important human languages of Tolkien's world. Contrast Adûnaic and Westron. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Marata

Meghean

[Andreas Johansson]

Mentolatian

[Padraic]

Merahai

[Mia Soderquist]

Merilareth

It may not be unique because I have used bits and pieces of other languages to make mine, but I believe that some elements may be unique, such as the pronoun section. [Chris Rohan]

Mesogeoika

Mesogeoika's grammar is basically a simplified version of Modern Greek. [Alex Katsaros]

Meth

[Shawn C. Knight]

Midikan

Midikan is a semi-"normal" language, with most of its sounds well-known to Indo-European speakers. The most alien thing about Midikan is its extensive use of consonant clusters, which are numerous and sometimes cumbersome. [Curtis Mullings]

Mikiana

Mikiana is the native language of Mika City. It was spoken by Mikianans many years ago, and today by Shawna Hart and her sister Terri. The grammar rules are similar to English. It is easy to learn because there are no irregular verbs or conjugations or genders or subject-verb agreement or stem changes or other stuff like that. [Jonathan Bettencourt]

Mingjiese

Mingjiese is a fictional language that used in the novel The Lich. It's the language of the Vampires and Myong-ins (Fictional race) in the 'Mingjie' (Fictional place). [YongDeok Cho]

Mjuteità Inglisja

[Tomas Magath]

Mornaë

[Emily Bisset]

Moten

Moten is unique not in its features but in the way it combines them. It has number, case and definition marked on nouns, but those are basically marked by a combination of infixes and suffixes. Each case is intrinsically trisemic, having an abstract, a spatial or a temporal meaning, depending on context (two prefixes can be used to disambiguate). It also inflects only the last part of a noun phrase. Verb conjugations rely heavily on analytical forms (in fact, only the verbs |agem|: to have and |atom|: to be have actually conjugated forms - and only five - and all other verbs are conjugated by added nominal forms of them to the conjugated forms of those auxiliaries). It also uses overdeclination (the declination of an already declined form) quite often, both with nouns and verbs (it's the main way to create subclauses). [Christophe Grandsire]

Mushroomese

[Lee Wilson]

Nakiltipkaspimak

[Daniel Andreasson]

Nalona

[Douglas Green, Kevin Albrecht, and Kristian Jarventaus]

Namarin

Namarin has long been in development by me, and this is the first chapter of my German Textbook translated into Namarin. This is not an attempt in any way to create a universal language, generally I prefer naturalistic languages to logical languages. Namarin is based on German, French, Macedonian, and Albanian. A glossary is located at the bottom of the page, however I have not worked out a phonetic system that I am satisfied with. As with all languages, Namarin is constantly changing. [Renli Marek]

Nandorin

The Green-elven tongue of Middle Earth. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Nanigani

[Kaihsu Tai]

Nanon

[Matt Scott]

Naracze

Naracze has triconsonantal morphology and two-level (the accented syllable is shifted to a higher pitch). It is an SOV language, where nouns are declined for case and verbs inflect for tense, aspect and evidentiality, but not for person. [Yoon Ha Lee]

Naranis

[Maknas]

Nari

I am attempting to develop the vocabulary without consciously borrowing from any other languages. I'm a musician, a composer to be exact, and the concept behind the language is to treat each word as sort of a miniature musical "composition," in which I combine sounds to reflect the meaning, at least what I think it should sound like. At the same time, I am developing a very consistent grammar so that the words and sounds will flow together smoothly and, hopefully, beautifully. [Thomas Slawson]

Narish

There are no articles. The word order is as follows: Subject, Object, Verb. The verb has little importance in the sentence. [Jordan Lavender]

Neelan

[Neil Buckley]

Neitetar

[Jashan A'al]

Nevokanyi

[Nicole Perrin]

New English

New English is a dictionary of a possible English of the near future, containing neologisms contributed by LangMaker.com readers. [Jeffrey Henning, et al]

Newspeak

George Orwell in his famous book 1984. [George Orwell]

Nickish

Niline lale

[Chris Bates]

Nirdaen

complex fusional language, unique verbs/tenses structure, word order is loose (usually VSO or OVS) [Reinhart Keim]

Noceltaeh

[Allen Squires]

Nômík Sprøk

Gnomish (In Nômík Sprøk, The Gnome Speech) is unique because it bears so much resemblance to what most people think is German that they think that it is, but if looked at after encountering German, you find that really it only looks like it. It has a unique system for its parts of speech, and isn't all that hard to speak. [Connor Becker]

Nordálien

Nordálien is a language that is both beautiful (in my opinion) and easy to learn, because it is so consistent. It can relate to both Quenya and Esperanto, because of its beauty and its ease. [Gabe Bloomfield]

Nórdicg

Nórdicg is a language with its very own style. Its look is heavily indo-european-influenced, but the grammar is an invention of my own. It has a special way of verb conjugation, a rarely used syntax, and it uses some rare and obsolete characters, for example the hooked o. There are no irregular verbs, and every type of word, except for nouns, prepositions and conjugations, is indicated by a special suffix, so you can easily 'switch' one type into another. The letters 'w' and 'y' are special letters, as they can either be used as vowels or consonants. Words can be combined to long word chains, with a special word order to indicate the most important part. The accentuation is derived from Irish Gaelic. Nórdicg has 3 genders, singular and plural, of which one can either be the plural neuter, or a group of male and female persons. So there is no unnecessary sexism as in French, for example. [Yẃlyan Rott]

Nordien

[Aaron Chapman]

Nova

[Brad Coon]

Nowapan

Nóyanla

[Maknas]

Nu Aves Khara-Ansha

It postposes secondary details such as adjectives and adverbs, but infixes major details in between the definite articles - copulative and existential markers are for all intents and purposes treated as articles, as are most pronouns - and the subordinate secondary details. [Wesley Parish]

Nuatic

Nuatic is the official language of a fictional nation in the mid-Atlantic. [Daniel Day]

Nüreqio

This language uses four types of accents, depending of the form of the word, the quantity of syllables and length of the vowels. [Cristián Cuevas]

Obrenje

Obrenje is a fairly well-behaving language. Phonology is aesthetic in a rustic but fluid way, using six vowel phonemes and consonants with palatized allophones. Orthography is totally regular but non-trivial. Vocabulary is a priori. Syntax is liberal VSO with some useful OVS structures. Grammar is mostly inflecting or isolating, with somewhat complex but reasonably regular verb paradigms, and nouns inflecting for definiteness (and nothing else!). It has a native script. [Christian Thalmann]

Oda Zginzgala

This was more of a dialect of Oda xeuivteles, which was a far off-shoot of Inif Xeuivteles. The major difference is the inclusion of gender, and the changing of prepositions and articles. It has the same case structure as German, with the Genitive, Reflexive, Nominative, Dative and Accusative. Each word has a verb, noun, and adjective/adverb form. [Bradford Morgan White]

Odonien

Odonien is the language spoken by the Odonans, an alien race introduced by the author in his Star Trek fan fiction. When creating the language, he intentionally violated as many language universals as possible in order to produce a more alien language. Odonien was designed as an OSV language, and does not use prepositions or postpositions. Instead, it divides all nouns into adjuncts to nouns and verbs, and uses case particles to indicate the relationships. The aim of Odonien is to make sentences as succinct as possible. The language has a unique script, a primer and approximately a thousand words. [Steve Oostrom]

Okaikiar

Mark Reed writes, "Okaikiar has a relatively small set of phonemes: only fifteen. What is more unusual is that the majority of these phonemes (eight) are vowels, with only seven consonants... Okaikiar has a syllabic writing system - that is, one glyph per syllable [1,152 glyphs] - called Orendiar." [Mark Reed]

Olaetian

Olaetyan, spoken on planets in the Kolagian sector, has an interesting phonology and a detailed lexicon, but no grammar is described. The vocabulary has enough unique words to make you want to learn more about the culture of the speakers (unusual musical instruments, game pieces, extraterrestrial creatures and mythological beings). How do you play the game of xayadophon, anyway? [Herman Miller]

Old Kandar

Tim Hall writes, "This is the ancient Kandar tongue of the old days of the first empire, and the 'ancestral tongue' all modern Kandar languages are derived from. It is no longer used in everyday speech, but still used in religious rituals, and for official treaties and the like. It is still taught to most educated Kandar, and is now more often written than spoken. Present-day pronunciations tend to be influenced by the speaker's native language, most likely one of Old Kandar's descendants, such as Filgan and Vohrran." [Tim Hall]

O'lelic

O'lelic is unique in that it has an unusually low number of consonant clusters, and a very high frequency of vowels. Indeed, nearly every cluster and aspirate in O'lelic is an import from another language, the earliest forms of O'lelic being without any. Also unusual in O'lelic is the fact that there is no verb conjugation. Instead, there are a set of particles, which may be called Verb-marking Particles. These precede or follow the verb in a sentence, indicating and modifying the meaning. [Curtis Mullings]

Oneirien

Oneirien is the language spoken by the people of the imaginary world Oneira. The use of invariable roots, conjugation of verbs and declension of nouns formed with prefixes. Audio excerpts on the website. [Collectif Oneira]

Ongaki

The uniqueness is how from this language you can create music based on the words of a poem (esp. lyrical poems). [ACZ]

Oopee

It originally started as an annoyingly complex language of a species called Oopees, but now it is an outlet for experimenting with grammar. It has some unique grammar rules, with more to come. In Oopee, there are 54 distinct "the"s. (Don't panic! There are only ten things you have to remember.) [Kelly Kozlowski|Carmen St. Jean]

Oou

The language has 11 vowels and no consonants. The orthography is comprised almost entirely of punctuation marks. Words often have broad, conflicting meanings: =_ ^^/~ ? "I love you. You love me. I love myself. I avoid myself. I avoid you. I flatten myself. I flatten you." [Sonja Elen Kisa]

Opus-2

[Chris Pressey]

Oro Mpaa

Oro Mpaa (pronounced [u.4um.'ba.a] has a rather unconventional but internally consistent phonology with phrasal sandhi, and a mostly isolating analytical syntax. Verbs have only two forms: Weak and Strong (non-finite and finite). Adjectives are verbs, too. [Christian Thalmann]

Ouranian-Barbaric

Ouranian-Barbaric (O-B) is a "barbarous tongue", a language for the creation of magical spells and incantations. O-B is the most extensive language of its kind created in the modern era, used mostly by Chaos Magicians. [Peter Carroll and others]

Paiodd

Paiodd features a unique inflectional system for nouns based on their relationship to verbs or other nouns as opposed to based on their role in the sentence or such things as gender or number. Additionally, these inflectional relationships are demonstrated by different phonetic values of the same phonetic class. [Jeremy Graves]

Pamryr

Pamryr is yet another elvish language, so there's probably nothing unique about it. (Call me a conlanger ordinaire.) [José Martínez]

Pantato

Phaleran

Nothing, because it is designed with natural languages in mind, and everything, because no other language shares precisely the same lexicon or arrangement of possible structures. Which is as it should be. [Thomas Wier]

Piat

John Cowan wrote, "Piat is a fictional language spoken in a fictional country somewhere in Central Europe. It is probably a language isolate." While the phonology was designed in 1996, the grammar and word list were created in 24 hours in 2004. "The original idea, not really fulfilled, was to combine the good points of Chinese and Finnish." [John Cowan]

Pikachu

[Aneel Nazareth]

Poþi

Poþi is a language spoken by the people of one nation in the world of Þãgoþ. It's most distinct qualities are the cursive script and the right-to-left, down-to-up reading. [Joseph W. Mynhier]

Prajiþiast

Grammar based on Basque's grammar. [Eric Anger]

Proto-Hambah

A proto-language for a Thekashi warrior culture, progenitor of three later languages. [Tom Little (Sêsâmân)]

Psharádi (Modern Tsaran)

Originally developed by its author to prevent people from reading her journal entries, Tsaran (formerly known as Ley Arah) quickly expanded into a fictional language for a culture known as the Tsara, the subject of short stories. [Jashan A'al]

q~'u^pl!

Adam writes, "The phonetic inventory of this language is on the rather odd side... I have been forced to resort to digraphs to represent most of its sounds. Trigraphs are uncomfortably common and the quadrigraph will no doubt have some of you screaming in agony. In the native orthography of q~'u^pl! each of these sounds is neatly represented by a single elegant symbol. I am afraid this Romanization conveys none of the grace of that system." [Adam Walker]

Qa

[Tregetour Yare]

Qelvietu

[Robbie (AKA Zoqaeski)]

Qilmanian

It is more descriptive than Narish (the other elvish tongue) but still doesn't have any articles. [Jordan Lavender]

Ranamemi

[Terence Donnelly]

Rap Lin Rie

"Another outstanding and attractive feature of Dutton Speedwords [Rap Lin Rie] is the fact that it is the first abbreviated writing invention in history which at once transcribes all languages." ---R. J. G. Dutton [Reginald J. G. Dutton, F.R.S.A.]

Raxanakoa

[Jonathana Tegire]

Rayatako

Rayatako is a half-tonal agglutinating language that I made once for a strange, alien species that I invented. The species is an interesting one - I might make a web page about them someday - but the language holds just as much intrigue. I have yet to finish the tonal system, but I am working on it diligently. Until then, all words are spoken with a falling tone (where the first half of the word is on a higher pitch or note than the last). [Michael Mechmann]

Réziko

Réziko is simple to speak yet different, phonologically and grammatically, from English and European languages. [J.T. Antley]

Rhean

Created for a comic book, spoken on a parallel Earth, Rhean shamelessly steals words and grammatical structures from many languages of our Earth. [Mike Ellis]

Rhyllan

This language is created to be the native language of the Rhyllan people in a story that I am writing. Since I do not have an English class, this language has the opportunity to be more unique. Some words are derived from French, and the language itself appears Celtic and Germanic. [Andrew J. Meilstrup]

Risan

Analysis by Star Trek background crew, breakdown done by Kári Emil Helgason. This is a language made for a dialogue in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode"Two Days and Two Nights" and has been used for naming of people and things in Star Trek's past. Occasional Indo-European-like words slide in. [Kári Emil Helgason]

Rivaansa

The language's goal is to be beautiful. [Schorreel, Thomas]

Rokbeigalmki

[Steg Belsky]

Romulan

Another unofficial Star Trek language. Phrase-generating software is available. [Diane Duane]

Rrldha

Rrldha is a conlang I created (with LangMaker's help) for a science-fiction novel I'm writing. It's the official language of the Myilo, a felinoid race. [Tom Corcoran]

Rusakui

[Maknas]

Rúvuk

It uses an original vocabulary that is not derived from another language, though false cognates do exist. It uses original sound combinations, and an unusual verb tense set. The language has a collection of idioms, such as Joruçíjo bívíñácalo imúlokojes!, literally "You have ten fathers!", idiomatically "You bastard!". [Robert]

Salanjan

[Drydic_Guy]

Sap'e'o

A unique alphabet differintiates diphtongs from two seperate vowels. [Jonathon Bly]

Sarkelean

Satritain

The vocabulary and grammar of Satritain is designed to reflect the thinking and culture of a civilization with an alternative form of social organization, philosophy, religion, etc. [Luther Blissett]

Sea Elvish

A language similar to Homeric Greek, with some Indian and Semitic influences. [Curtis Mullings]

Senu Yivokuchi

Don't know if it's unique, but verbs are overwhelmingly agentive and/or volitional. Non-volitional and patientive concepts are usually represented by adjectives. Therefore, "(fall in) love", "sleep", etc., are all adjectival. Also, a number of locations are rendered by helper nouns instead of adpositions. [Pablo Flores]

Senyecan

Senyecan purports to be the first language from which the later Indo-European languages evolved. [Charlie Brickner]

Sevorian

[James Campbell]

Shaleyan

[James]

Shaquelingua

[Remi Villatel]

Sharioléh

This language is for evil plans and terror. It sounds bad, but it has interesting facts. Transitive and intransitive verbs have different conjugations; there is a tense called Unreal that's very difficult to understand and to use, and all verbs start with letter "o" [Eugenio M. Vigo]

Shkanshej

It uses a trigger system, by which the focused argument of the verb is marked as such without showing its function (subject, object, etc.). This function is instead marked on the verb. This system is combined with a gender system with three genders conven [Pablo Flores]

Shoa

A highly isolating language, Shoa is meant to one day be shifted into a polysynthetic language. That is, of course, far in the future. [J. Harness]

Sialy

Sialy exists in both a formal form and a colloquial form. The formal form utilizes an elaborate system of infixes to signify (for nouns) case, and (for verbs) mood and person. The colloquial uses at times different words, and simplified grammar. [Aaron Morse]

Silindion

[Elliott Lash]

Sindarin

The tongue of the Grey-Elves, itself descended from Old Sindarin and from Primitive Elvish, which is also the ancestor language to Quenya. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Slavisk

[Libor Sztemon]

Sohlob

Possibly its vowel-height harmony. [Benct Philip Jonsson]

Stālāg

Stālāg has a complex verb morphology, with subject and object marks, tense, aspect, mood, and up to six verbal voices including an applicative that turns complements into core arguments. Not really unique, since Georgian has most of that and more, but surely different. [Pablo Flores]

Streich

[Tommaso Donnarumma]

Strelwidhan

[PyterVoeros]

Sunset Elvish (Pinuidan)

Pinuidan has several unique features, from the umlauts of the plural nouns to the consonant mutations that make the sentences smoother. On the whole, Sunset Elvish is a very flowing language. [Curtis Mullings]

Suoníppomí

Suoníppomí is the language that might might have resulted if Japan and Finland had become one country during World War I. It has 16 cases for both nouns and verbs, and vocabulary based on amalgamating Japanese and Finnish words. [Eric Anger]

Szkev

It is a unique combination of vocabulary from different languages with its own grammar, a bit akin to IE but not based specifically on any existing one and having many totally new elements. [zbihniew]

Tá à p'u

The grammar is heavily determined by tone. There are 3 numbers that are determined by and and there are 3 tenses that also work this way. [Eddy the Great]

Taeisan Languages

There are four Taeisan languages: Drgn, Iniel, Ohs and Petrocea. [Geoff Tuffli, Shai Strouse, B.G. Moser, et al]

Taki

[Jerry Mings]

Talossan

Madison has invented the imaginary country of Talossa (which claims part of Milwaukee as its sovereign territory). Talossan is a Gallo-Romance language, inspired by French, Provencal and Occitan, and very naturalistic (with quite a few irregularities). Little of the language is available on the Internet, but Madison does sell three books about Talossan: two dictionaries and a grammar. With over 20,000 words, it is one of the most detailed fictional languages ever invented. A principle weakness of the language is that it has no fictional derivation from Latin, with forms having been invented arbitrarily rather than regularly. [R. Ben Madison]

Tanach-a Shile

Its seemingly random set of natlang influences combine (with the author's imperfect knowledge of them) to create a unique feel to the language. It is a mostly isolating SOV language, a less common type of language. Finally, its design was somewhat constrained by the language's "commissioner," making the project more collaborative than most. [Doug Ball]

Tarnese

Tarnese is the language spoken on the Isle of Tarn. [Etak]

Tarnif

[Nik Taylor]

Taruven

[taliesin]

Tasratal

Tasratal is a noun-based SOV agglutinative language, with two primary parts of speech: connectives ("function" words, or particles) and substantives ("content" words, or nouns). Verbs are typically formed from nouns using a causative connective. Syntactically, connectives and substantives occur in "triads," indicating "opposition or assertion", "uncertainty or motion", "status quo". icevan-ge aferun-mas-kyx, yferun-co-roq. /itSevanNe apferunmaski"S i"pferuntSorox/ "To find happiness, one should not seek it." [Yoon Ha Lee]

Tatari Faran

[H. S. Teoh]

Tazhi

[Makeenan]

Tech

Danny Wier writes, "Tech (from the native t'əq 'hidden, a Tech') is the language of the Techs, a humanoid species (Homo occultus) of the role-playing game FourHorse currently in the works. They are thought of as having spiritual or extraterrestrial origins, they are compared to the elves of European legends and Tolkien's Middle Earth, the jinn of Islamic folkore, and demons or fallen angels under a more-or-less Christian interpretation. They see themselves and are seen by others as a highly advanced race compared to humans." [Danny Wier]

Telerin

The language of the Sea-Elves. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Teonaht

You won't find a personal language being actively developed that is as deep and rich as Teonaht. Much is unique about it, from its word order to its verbal system to its affixing. It uses the rare OSV word order, can front the subject (SOV), yet repeats the pronoun before the verb. While a nominative language, Teonaht distinguishes between "volitional" and "non-volitional" verbs and subjects, so that the nominative has two forms, "agent" and "experiencer," also reflected in the verbs. Teonaht lacks the copula in the present tense. It has "the Law of Detachment," whereby affixes can switch from final to initial position in a word for rhetorical or prosodic purposes; this allows the tense suffix to detach and prefix the pronoun (an innovation copied by NGL). While putatively Indo-European, Teonaht draws very heavily from an unknown inflected language called "Nenddeyly". [Sally Caves]

Terran

[Josh Brandt-Young]

Tev'Meckian

Tev'Meckian is the unofficial language of the Mak'tars of Galaxy Quest. [Jeffrey Henning]

Thereskeya

Thereskeya was designed to be the tongue of a very proud nation led by a female monarch named the Candace. The language flows quite nicely, having plenty of continuants. It has a surprising lack of grammatical gender while retaining very complex verb conjugations. The dialect presented on the site is that of the capital city Bornas, which lies in a declension limbo between the full case system of the traditional rural population and the lack of case present in many city dialects. Here is an example phrase from the language: Thonath belo khelbit auriswelespit. "I soar over sunlit lands." [Ben Poplawski]

Thyllymas

Tigerian

Tigerian is my main language. It has the most developed lexicon, grammar, and history. It also has a couple students, which I find totally wonderful. [Jonathana Tegire]

Tinxirean

It is ergative in the present tense. There are frequent guttural consonants, triconsonantal roots, and heavy verbal agglutination. Evidential particles are used. [Accard]

Tïsjelán

Tïsjelán has grammar with Altaic, Uralic, and Athebaskan aspects (with a syntax very much like that of Japanese), and a phonology consisting of 14 consonants--13 of which have 3 distinct allophones that differ in place of articulation and are almost separate phonemes--and 14 vowels. [Jonathan North Washington]

Tomoulini Ganmaa

TRAN

This is an unusual language, with two very interesting features: first, a unique morphology for cases, and second, unusual formation of noun/verb pairs. Cases are marked on the end of preceding words (so, Vagu gat is "A cat sitting", where -u marks the case of gat, "sit"); this is well suited for forming compound words, e.g., tanosharasvanak is tan ("house") o-shar ("of selling", genitive) a-svanak ("drugs"), "pharmacy". Finally, verbs are formed from nouns by transposing the initial and final consonants: e.g., tran, "speech", becomes nrat, "to speak". [Andrei Burago]

Tsuhon

It marries Germanic word stock with Japanese grammar for a language meant to form the background to a science-fiction novel. [Yoon Ha Lee]

Tsumhetyan

[Exu Yangi]

Uajiren

A fictional language with a fictional auxlang in its history. [Steven Collins]

Ukhik

[Pablo Flores]

Uni Mar

Uni Mar (or, more precisely, "Yodi Mari") is based partially on the Austronesian language family, especially Hawai'ian. It is aggregating with low entrophy and a basic 'consonant+vowel' syllable system. It is spoken by the people of Uni Sari (Yodi Dzovi), a small, tropical city-state. [J Harness]

Universal Networking Language

Universala Lingva Kodo

[Linxiang Wang]

Unstränng

Unstränng is for the Legacies LARP and is meant to appear to be vaguely Norse. [Scott 'Blade' Hamilton]

Vadhawian

Vadhawian is unique in its (relatively) high number of guttural sounds. Also unique in this language is that the declension and conjugation are based on consonantal roots, with the vowels changing to indicate meaning. [Curtis Mullings]

Valavya

There may be two slightly different forms of a word or conjugation; the speaker's aesthetic tastes determine which one will be used. It's a language meant for slow, careful intonation, not everyday speech. A language for poetry, not conversation, to be savored on the tongue like fine wine...and it only has one irregular verb! One! [Mariana Lo]

Valmelind

It tries to combine some features regarding sea peoples. As it is the language of the sea-elves it has a unique alphabet and a complex agglutinative grammar, but the vocabulary is simple and no longer than three syllables. There is a classic language and a popular dialect. There is no "r" sound. [Asier G.]

Vamperr

Conjugation of verbs is based upon whether they are transitive, intransitive or state of being. [Bradford Morgan White]

Varro

This language isn't really unique, but I did my best, and I like it. [Jurre Lagerwaard]

Vash

This is Vash. I started it when I was 16, 43 years ago. First it was a secret language, then it was a device to uncover the Chomskian deep structure, then one to uncover the principles of creolization. Now and for the last 25 years or so it is just an obsession. It is an Indo-European language with copious Germano-Slavic antecedants. It is pretty amazing to learn that I am far from the only one who has done this. [Peter Ramsey]

Ve Segelm A Laighödhét

[Carsten Becker]

Venyárin

Venyárin is the language of the Night Elves of Lovarin. It is spoken to varying degrees in almost every corner of the world, and serves as a sort of lingua franca. The language hasn't changed a bit in almost ten thousand years. It has one descendant, Dündil, the language of the Wood Elves, but other than that, there are no dialects or variants save for Human error. [Ikkakujyu]

Vihal

[Jonathana Tegire]

Viikqnnosf

This language was created for two different purposes, one is the novel "Song about the Nothern Star" and the other for the Andrzej Sapkowski Club, where it is used as a language of vampires. [Jan Havlis]

Vilani

[Kenji Schwarz]

Vogu

[Terence Donnelly]

Vosh

Vosh is the principal language for Monolothic Games' new fantasy world, Aberwyth. Since Vosh is intended primarily for gaming, it is being created to have as simple a set of grammatical rules as possible, while still being realistic. The 800-word lexicon is heavily tailored towards fantasy RPGs. [Daniel Myers]

Waldzell Conlang

[Mark P. Line]

Wamen

[Pablo Flores]

Wapadja

[Thomas Schorreel]

Western Zein

[Drydic_Guy]

Woznackh

It has an advanced grammar, a rich vocabulary and some sample texts. [Eirik Wixøe Svela]

Xap II

[Andrew Leventis]

xathmel

[Paul Blake]

Xt!

[Adam Walker]

Yathor

This language is created for Elves. I am writing a pre-Ainulindalë story, just for fun. [Jurre Lagerwaard]

Yeishan

[Keolah]

Yihhian

The language was invented for use in a story about the invented city of Yihh and is written in hieroglyphs based on constellations and other star patterns. [Simon Whitechapel]

Yiirabarhi

It's a language designed for an alien species which processes information differently enough that their language - while having a simple grammar and phonology - is very difficult for humans. [Robert Eaglestone]

Yisian

Ylhäällä

Ylhäällä is an agglutinating language with a unique grammatical system containing 14 cases and 5 levels of evidentiality. As far as I know this is a completely original idea, designed, principally for a language that sounds and reads beautifully, while retaining some logic in its grammer and formation. [Lang Boy]

Yorlakesian (Mok'yorlak'ol)

Yorlakesian is an easy language without many exceptions to its rules. Many words can be built by other words combined with affixes, e.g. zál "number" -> zálek "calculate" -> zálekáton "computer" -> al'zálekátone "network". The website is designed professionally like a well structured specialized book and contains audio examples what should make the language easy to learn. [Jörg "paleface" Burkel]

Zaynktooks

Zhakish

[Keolah]

Zireenka

Zireenka is the language of another one of Miller's furry aliens, the Zireen, who dwell on the planet Reeshai, in the general direction of Ursa Major. This site has a playful introduction to the language, a very short vocabulary and sample sound files. Zireenka is a tonal language. [Herman Miller]

Zoinx

VSO sentence order; zero-less base-8 numbering system. [Roger Espel Llima]

Zurbian

I invented Zurbian as the language of the fictional country Zurbia, which is one of the countries I use as background setting for some of the cryptographic problems featured on my main web page. Proto-Zurbian has got a unique script, but for "present day" Zurbian the Cyrillic alphabet is used. It's a descendant of a Conlang I constructed as a youth, having read The Lord of the Rings. [Torbjoern Andersson]

Zurvár

The language itself is no doubt fairly unoriginal, but the presentation (hopefully) has appeal. It features a base five numeric system, a unique alphabet and orthography, a Babel text that desperately needs updating, agglutination up the wazoo, and a small (but occasionally growing) number of texts documenting the culture and history of the Zurvár people (with enlightening footnotes). [James Nicholls]

Zyem

[Terence Donnelly]

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Updated on July 28, 2005 at 4:53 PM (GMT-5).