Conlangs

Acian

It uses a special method of word creation, and uses a never-before-used method of verb conjugation by conjugating infinitive forms of verbs to display past, present, and future. [Ace]

Aéstari

Aéstari is my personal language that I've been developing for two years. When I first started making it, I knew nothing of phonology, so it sounds horrible, and has gone through lots of major revisions. It is spoken by the people of Aéstari and Gieborna on an imaginary planet I created. [Nick Kalivoda]

Aingeljã

Aingeljã (Angelian) is the neo-Romance language invented by Ángel Serrano. It is mainly inspired in those already existing, such as (in order of importance): Spanish, Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, French and Italian, with some Germanic influences from English and German. [Ángel Serrano]

Andanese

See "Design Principles". [Andrew Leventis]

Anglo-Romance

I'd define Anglo-Romance as a jargon rather than a real language since it corresponds to an increase in Latinate words in written English. For the Romance speakers, it requires to learn English in order to adopt its simple grammar. For the English speakers, to try to increase the number of Latinate words they commonly use. [Mattia Suardi]

Animalic

Animalic, a simple language made by Tolkien's cousins, was the first of someone else's constructed languages that he was exposed to, and it inspired Nevbosh. [Mary Incledon; Marjorie Incledon]

Anklis

The language is a possible future version of modern English derived from various sound change rules which have occurred in English in the past, as well as various dialect features of the various American English dialects. While it is derived from modern English, there are some areas in which Anklis is very different from English, particularly in its sounds, and some of its grammar. [Martin Ferretti]

Antique Lantian

I created this language for the people who lived a long time ago on my imaginary island, but this is the older form, which would be replaced by the new Lantian, that comes from Latin. Ho creato questa lingua per la gente che viveva tantissimo tempo fa nella mia isola di fantasia, ma questa è la forma più antica, che verrà rimpiazzata dal nuovo Lanzio, che deriva dal Latino. [Bucchianeri Marco]

An'tur

The consonant system (voicedness/unvoicedness), the use of pre- and postpositions instead of cases. Pronunciation uses only the front of the mouth (no velar, uvular, glottal sounds, no back vowels). [Sander Dieleman]

Atarel

Atarel is an invented language. The name is based on the Japanese word atarashii, "new". [Seiji Suenaga]

Azak

Azak is agglutinative. But when I mean agglutinative, I mean really agglutinative, so agglutinative that after seeing it you'll get sick of seeing any other agglutinative language for a while :)) . Also, it has strange phonotactics. Syllable struct [Christophe Grandsire]

bac

Bac was originally designed to be a language which did away with the polarities of many natural languages (all that I was familiar with at the time). The verb has no objects, and -- at least to begin with -- neither positive nor negative was implicit in any word. It is striking in forming single clauses with multiple main verbs and is thus highly idiomatic to an Indo-European language speaker. [Matthew Butt]

Benjish

Benjish is written with the Roman alphabet, and is based on Spanish, English and Greek. It has two /R/ phonemes, one is the alveolar tap (as the Spanish letter ere) and one is the alveolar approximate (as the English /r/). It also has a click. It is the Official Language of the made-up province of Benjaland in Niwic. [Benjamin Bruce]

Cannic

Cannic is an inflectional language and draws its vocabulary mainly from English. The grammar of Cannic is my own and has not been influenced by any language. [Nikhil Sinha]

Cepperjoleddicg

I (Chris Paull, or as I'm known in the conlanging community, Zeke Fordsmender) began work on Cepperjoleddicg in a very different form in December of 1998. Today, Cepperjoleddicg is my most complete language project and my favorite. The language is a historically-possible primitive Scandinavian language with heavy Gothic influences and a touch of Goidellic. It's morphologically complex, phonologically rich, and packed full of idioms inspired by Germanic religion. It bears a complete literature, its own forms of poetry, and an alphabet and a set of runes. [Chris Paull (Zeke Fordsmender)]

Chickenese

Chickenese was originally created and documented as a joke in 1996 for a comedy/horror story I wrote called War of the Chickens, and was published in a zine called Basically Insane. It remained un-webified (is this a real word? It is now!) until 2004 when I discovered a reference online to another humorous and wonderful conlang parody called Chicken. In response to this, I decided to launch the Chickenese website. These two conceptually similar languages were developed independently at probably the same time for the same aim: just for fun. [Damon M. Lord]

Cruons

Cruons is an artificial language consisting of mostly made up words, with some Dutch, Germanic and Roman languages. This language too is a dead language (no longer in use.) [Stefan Lubbersen]

Cuërna

Cuërna, a language which I have been working on for about a year, is truly one of the most beautiful languages in existence. Its grammar/formation is derived from a mixture of various European languages. [Jack McNeill]

Cytrurian

Though it is derived from various Indo-European languages (mainly Germanic), it has a grammar and phonetic system unique to almost all world languages. Most words are derived from Old Germanic, but some of the sounds come from other languages such as Russian and Arabic. [Martin]

Dêbiua

Dêbiua was inspired by the word construction system of Arabic, where roots are defined by consonant clusters, with vowels added according to a specific pattern to indicate fine meaning. Dêbiua uses a "dual" system, where roots are defined by vowel clusters and consonants are added for grammatical forms and fine meaning. Its sound system therefore contains an unusual high number of vowels. [Hans Straub]

Degaspregos

[Tom Wier]

Derrae

It has a pretty regular phonology, but has a strange rule I called the Growing Rule, which states that, in some words, the order of the vowels isn't aleatory. It has four invariable verbs: temporary "be", permanent "be", locative "be", and "have". There are four persons: the speaker, the direct listener (to whom the speaker speaks), the indirect listener (who hears the conversation) and the subject (away from the conversation, natural things, etc.). Nouns vary according to gender, number and definiteness: using an indefinite noun is the same as "a (noun)". [Jotomicron]

Di'aleka

Di'aleka has a simple grammar without losing expressiveness, and a wide ranging vocabulary to cover all topics. It also has a growing literature. [Tristan Parker]

DiLingo

DiLingo is a profound English slang with an ever growing vocabulary. [sUmUs cAcOOnUs]

Dingwâ

Dingwâ's lexicon comes mostly from Indo-European or else the oldest English root. [David]

Double Dutch

Double Dutch is easy to learn and is mainly a code to talk to friends without teachers, parents or classmates knowing what you are saying. To translate a single syllable word into Double Dutch you take the word, for example: Hi Then you add 'Gether' infront of the word; Gether Hi Then you switch the first letter of the first word with the first letter of the second word: Hether Gi For multi-syllabic words like 'Hello' you split the word into it's syllables and treat each syllable as a separate word. For example: Hello Hell o gether hell hether gell gether o other go hether gell other go Other than that there is nothing else you need to know about pronouncing the words, but typing them is different. [Unknown]

Draqa

[Ajin Kwai]

Dublex

Dublex is a langmaking game -- think of it as Scrabble for people who like to invent words. Rather than the letter tiles of Scrabble, Dublex has 400 word tiles. You combine the word tiles in as many ways as desired to come up with new words. [Jeffrey Henning]

ê Èëe

The language of Eeee, or ê Èëe, is a tonal, isolating/inflecting language, created entirely for amusement, as was the "Cult of Eeee." It is not to be taken seriously except as the work of two geniuses. [Jonathana Tegire and Jaaaaaa]

Egaeic

[Edward Field]

Ehxduxadiikootu

Split-S system, with the noun cases being used to determine tense. Complex derivational processes. Rather strange system of epistemic modals [Various]

Eklektu 96

Unlike other of Herman Miller's languages, Eklektu 96 is not a language of furry aliens, but instead has a vocabulary containing an eclectic mix of the world's languages, though the emphasis to date has been on European languages. [Herman Miller]

Elet Anta

[John Fisher]

Elleya

The language is designed to be beautiful, yet easy to learn (but also rich). It is designed so that it could have been spoken. It is full of irregularities. [Niels van der Plas]

Epiq

Though I'm certain it's been done before, it's still rather rare to find a language whose roots lie in the Eskimo languages (and rarer still, the Caucasian languages). [David J. Peterson]

Erone

This is just a sketch of the language, but it is promising: Erone has an attractive lexicon, and I look forward to more to come. [Carrie Schutrick]

Esata

Esata is a modern creole based on a simplified English, with heavy international influences. It uses 'phrase words' which can be coined by its users to express more complicated vocabulary and concepts. There's also a new alphabet associated with the language, allowing the representation of up to 4 normal English letters in an easy-to-scan matrix. [Pafu]

Esiterato

There is no interspace between words and yet special sounds, prefixes or suffixes, sometimes infixes, give a clear indication of subjects, predicates, and so on. The whole sentence is a long, long word. [Sandor Csak]

Etrer'aous

This language has it's own sound ... almost a mix between middle-eastern, elvish dialects, and some of almost every language all combined in one to make it sound like its own and origonal. This is different also because the teachers of this language are greatly involved and concerned with the education of the learners. [Drew Fischer]

Feianovedo

All prepositions are replaced by cases; simple conjugation. [Sander Dieleman]

Fukhian

The language was my first try, so it's not very absurd. :-) It's agglutinating with no constructed phonology. The purpose was to remove all irregularity and concord from the language. The unique thing is that every word can carry the verb affixes of a sentence in case the verb is dropped. The script is very developed (but the letters need to be re-assigned to sounds). [Henrik Theiling]

Gälðyr

[Luca Galdiolo]

Goesk

Goesk was not meant to be unique, and has many features lifted from English and German. However, a number of its features are decidedly Germanic-looking, yet independently contrived. For example, the prepositions all govern the same three cases; relative clauses are restrictive, non-restrictive, or free depending on the choice of pronoun; reflexive pronoun phrases each comprise a demonstrative determiner before an accusative or dative personal pronoun; the equivalents of English particles each comprise the word "fuer" (for) followed by a preposition. Goesk contains many Germanic and European features modified for the heck of it. [James S. Grossmann]

Góquim

Góquim is an agglutinative language. There are eight cases and two numbers in Góquim. All new words are made by combining existing words only. [Nikhil Sinha]

Gweydr

Gweydr is a language designed specifically with the principles of Word and Paradigm Morphology in mind. The intended result is a more morphologically realistic language. Additionally, Gweydr has a script patterned after Mayan epigraphs (for more detail, go here). [David J. Peterson]

gzb

In handwriting I use a Latin-based alphabet with thirty or forty extra letters (the language has 60+ phonemes). That's not on the web site, though; there I use an ASCII transcription which, though unambiguous, is frankly pretty ugly. [Jim Henry]

Hallon

[Paul V. S. Townsend, M.Sc.]

Hänäthlîêr

Hänäthlîêr is a fun and easy language to learn. I have just started constructing the language, but the website has an up to date English-Hanathlier Dictionary and comprehensible Lessons to help you learn it. If you are looking for a language that you can learn quickly, this is it. Also, if you are interested in helping to create a conlang, contact me. [Shane Hampton]

han-taj-tUl-hUt

The writing system is non-linear. A piece of text can be spoken in hundreds of different ways but they all have the same meaning. The name is a phonetic rendering of the English word "untitled". So far there is only the Babel Text but I will create a grammar and a discussion of the writing system soon. [Aaron Ruimy]

Heratï

Heratï uses the [noun] [adj.] principle (as in French) but also will place the [prep.] after the noun as well. Like so: yoss grët de (house) (good) (in) [noun] [adj.] [prep] [Zingjar ë Gud]

Idrani

Drawing from Navajo, Chinese, Xhosa and Finish, Idrani is a personal language used by the author and his two sons. [T. Mitchell Pehrson]

Iju Puna

Iju Puna is the smallest quasi-usable language in the world with only 16 words. It is almost actually usable because of the way the vocabulary was designed to be very broad. At this rate, I would estimate the language will become fairly usable at 30 - 40 words. [Kevin Goodman]

Indika

The vocabulary is basically Indo-Aryan, but the grammar is similar to that of European languages. Indika also has articles, which are not present in Indo-Aryan languages. [Nikhil Sinha]

Indo-Nugimian

Indo-Nugimian was spoken by the aboriginal tribes of the continent of Nugimia. The word "Nugimia" comes from the aborginal phrase "kimiyo' ngu'ngimiyo'", which means "in the place of the people." The language allowed for free word order, as the subject and object were fully declined. Indo-Nugimians were able to create related words using basic roots and four grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, base vitality, and inverse vitality. For example, the words for "man," "woman," "person," and "dead person" were "ngu'ngiw," "ngu'ngiye," "ngu'ngi," and "ngu'ngin," respectively. Other interesting extensions of this system included the words for "land" and "landslide" ("diso't," "diso'tin"), "water" and "flood" ("nu'tsuk," "nu'tsukin"), and "sky" and "bad weather" ("tlo'nge," "tlo'ngen"). A rich set of verb aspects also allowed them to express compactly many different flavors in continuity, certainty, and necessity of action, for example, "He would have gone (by now)" was simply "Diyazhile," and "I need to go" was simply "Diyatus." [Tony Le]

Irecepte

Combination of VSO or VOS structure, with four-place numbering system: 100 - raze, 10,000 - neñ, 10,000,000 - dap, 1,000,000,000 - raren. [Eric Remington]

Isirian

It is one of the few hieroglyphic artificial languages. [Joshua Horn]

it-Cejdijtung, Ctung

The Penguinean Language has a special particle frame construction and combines German, Icelandic, Norse, Japanese and Welsh with constructed word roots, using a script derived from Coptic. The site features a 250-word lexicon, etymologies, grammar, a primer, sample texts and a unique script. [Anthony Lawless, Evan Gallagher, Jan Havliš, Jim Morgan]

Jakelimotu

All words are grammar coded according to their first letter. [Lane Schwartz; Ben Rogers]

Jamalinaşķ

Jamalinaşķ possesses a very efficient and logical agglutinative grammar structure, with a very large inventory of sounds. It is highly inflected, with 15 noun cases and 12 verb tenses. It has its own alphabet of 35 letters and numerous diacritics that enable it to be written very efficiently. [Jamal Abed-Rabbo]

Japanglish

The language attempts to squish English words into a Japanese-like sentence structure. [Josh "Jae" Munce]

Jleer

Jleer uses an abugida / syllabary with only 49 symbols (including punctuation; numbers; and the obsolete tone system) and denotes 4 accent / word-combining / tone runes; 16 numbers; and 4224 possible syllables. Also it's a three-page language with grammar, a dictionary, etc.

Jynmû

Jynmû is a language based off of the language of Mû, which was created with almost no influence of other languages. It is foreign enough to work in a fantasy setting and has enough words to hold a normal conversation. [Justin Spahr-Summers]

Kamakawi

First off, it's got its main roots in Polynesian, which isn't something I've encountered before (though I'm sure if I looked hard enough, I probably could). The use of markers to state the status of the subject (whether it's the same as the previous sentence, brand new, or from somewhere other than the subject position in the previous sentence) is also pretty rare, though I've done it before, and I've seen it in a natural language. It also uses idiomatic, mandatory adverbs for many intransitive verbs, such as the sentence "I picked him up" where you can't say the verb is "to pick" but rather "to pick up". Other than that, the language was designed specifically to be fun. :) [David J. Peterson]

Kelenala

Kelenala is what I call a "speed creole". I drafted a list of about 400 "basic" words (with no grammar), made up phonologically reduced forms for them, and, using these words, and only these words, I've created a language. As such, it models what might happen if I were dropped into the middle of a jungle and had to form a pidgin based on the data I received. (Well, that is, if I didn't actually bother to learn the language...) [David J. Peterson]

Kine

The secret to understanding bovine communications! [Daniel Myers]

Kirda-han

Kirda-han is a very interesting language. A unique characteristic is that the pronouns are added as a prefix to verbs. The word order is OSV or, as my friends say, "Yoda-Talk." Like Hanathlier, Kirda-han is a simple language to learn, which is always a primary focus when I start a conlang. [Shane Hampton]

Ko e Vagahau he Motu

[Philip Newton]

Kótèsä

Kótèsä is my third attempt at creating a usable language that is relatively specific while still attempting to be somewhat easy to learn and speak. Most of the words were made with no roots of other languages, though some have influences of past conlangs. Accents are used only to indicate pronunciation in this language, and are not necessary in common type. [Justin Spahr-Summers]

Kushan

Case is not just indicated by an ending, but also by an adjective or article. Kushan also uses /f/ as a semivowel, yielding words such as fta, "to rain". All verbs are regular, and the word order is rather free. [Rob H.]

Kvaaplaang

The basic words seem very English, but with Kvaaplaang's unique pronunciation and suffixes, the words are completely hidden through speech. [Tom Curtis]

Lacue

Laquish is to a certain degree very compact, and many have also said it sounds very nice (every conlanger's dream). It has few or no irregularities and is mostly agglutinative. Its syntax and morphology is very systematic and once you've understood the basic principles of the language there aren't any real difficulties making new sentences. [Eirik Olsen]

Latötsc

It is just a combination of Germanic as well as Latin roots and languages that are from each family. Five hundred words have been created (not yet online). [Brian Suchsland-Gutiérrez]

Lemurian

[Sander Dieleman]

Lesko

Lesko is the language spoken by a (fictional) race who call themselves (in their lingua franca) lesu (singular les). [Shawn C. Knight]

Lilipu

Like the miniature Japanese bonsai tree, Lilipu exemplifies "Small is beautiful." It is designed as a language in which to create haiku, a Japanese poetic style, usually about nature. [Victor Medrano]

Linka Romànika

It is a regular-enough Semiticized Romance language. [Dana Hadar]

Lipu'onai

Lipu'onai is the logical yet elaborate language of a fictional island. [Amanda Smith]

Logli

Very small set of roots to learn, because most words are mnemonic compounds. Less ambiguous than most natural languages, but not as logically rigid as Loglan and Lojban. [Marcos Cramer]

Maltae

The verb system is unique in the order that it puts together affixes for conjugation, as well as the word structure and how I formed words. [Kuanye]

Manaki

It has a simple molecular grammar and uses a friendly and basic phonology. This makes it easy to learn. [Yann Kiraly]

Megdevi

Megdevi is a language I created to actually be spoken between my girlfriend and I. When I came to the realization that she wasn't going to learn it, I expanded it on my own. It's something of a mix between Arabic and Esperanto, seeing as it works with triconsonantal roots, but is shamelessly regular. This was my first attempt at language creation, and thus, the idea of naturalness hadn't yet entered my skull. All the words are roughly written in SAMPA. /a/ should be regarded as schwa-like, affricates as a single phoneme, /&/ a low, front, unrounded vowel, and /L/ as a regular [l] (I'm writing it as a capital in order to distinguish it from capital "i", [I], which is a high, front, unrounded lax vowel). [David J. Peterson]

Melindaran

Most of it is a priori so far. There are no special letters and the grammar is a balance of simple, regular, agglutinative, and irregular. I'm trying to make it easy to speak and still sound natural. OK, it's probably not unique. [Randal L. Lanning]

Mellyrn

The language is very new, about 2 weeks, and has borrowings and likenesses to elvish. [Alex Bolton]

Merdian

This is a small artlang, with about 875 words. The only information on that is currently published on the Web is a translation of the Babel Text. [David Dynes]

Mhigiwipian

Mhigiwipian is an artistic conlang with various aims, but explaining them would be self-defeating. [Simon Whitechapel]

Naffarin

The first of Tolkien's constructed languages for which we have any information, though even that is sparse. But it already foreshadows Quenya. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Nartrean

[Edward field]

Nevbosh

Tolkien made some modest contributions to his cousin's language, Nevbosh ("New Nonsense"). Next up: Naffarin. [Mary Incledon; J.R.R. Tolkien, et al]

Nihilosk

Nihilosc has a regular system of inflection. Some good points have been borrowed from Esperanto. All nouns, adjectives, adverbs, tenses, etc. are shown by a special ending. The word order is the same as that of English. [Nikhil Sinha]

Njaama

A click language, Njaama also has a pitch-accent system, and makes liberal use of adjuncts. Also, in the Njaama script, I've come up with a method for marking tone that I think is rather unique. There are four possible tone patterns: H, L, HL and LH. So what I did was make four symbols that correspond to each of the above, and I prepose each word with one of those symbols, depending on its tonal pattern. For words of multiple syllables and either a HL or LH tone pattern, I made a character to insert before the syllable where the tone changes. [David J. Peterson]

Olijad

Olijad is a VSO language with a zero copula and a pretty logical syntax/grammar. It has small vowel system, too. [Robert Hill]

Oraq

"[The]language is unique in that it only uses a set number of phonemes and has a simplified grammar. Also it has a textual script that can be written cursive when desired." -Ota [Mason Fraley]

Ozay

Ozay is designed to have strange sounding words, unusual syntax, pointless complexity, and to be just plain silly all around. [Daniel Myers]

Pacarian

Actually, nothing. There are some "special" things about it, namely the use of y. Y is far more used than in the language it was derived from, French. [Sander Dieleman]

Pakitani

The only known occurrence of this language is found in the lyrics of a song of the Skabeche Riber Band (https://www.skabeche.org) music group. The uniqueness of this language is the following: the pronunciation differs from one time it is sung to another. There is only one Pakitani speaker in the world, Paco "España", aka Pakital. [Paco "España"]

Pala-kalloejna

The language pala-kalloejna's lexicon, once it has been generated, will consist of a set of names in a non- or super-hierarchical namespace (a web), with names (nodes) fuzzily linked to other names. Any name can have any number of links to any other names. The form the pattern takes will be malleable - indeed, every expression in pala-kalloejna will reshape the web - and will in itself define the names (i.e., describe usage patterns for the lexemes). Contrast with a hierarchical namespace like that of Roxhai. [Christopher Reid Palmer]

Pe'Ma'De

It is the mother language to many of my conlangs. [Eric the Best]

Pig Elvish

Another cipher of English, with rules similar to those of Pig Latin. Ovemë heten irstfë étterlé óten héten ndëen; hentë, fïén ódingca äen ordwë fóén 3 ëttërslá róen esslë, ddaén näën "en" ndíngeth; fïen odingcá äén órdwí fóén 4 ëtterslú roën órema, ddäën äen "th" ndïngeth fién hëten óvedmï etterlá sién aen ówelvú, lsëeth ddáen äën ándomrí ówëlvë. Héntï, hangëcí lläen "k" ótén "c". Ástlylú, ddáën ándómrú ccéntsáth nóen óptën fóen hëten etterslï. [Bicoherent]

Pig Latin

The most famous language game. It's very easy to learn, and most people know how to speak it, though not fluently, usually. The site will translate from English to Pig Latin. [Anonymous]

Plefande

It makes heavy use of adverbs. Entire sentences expressing fuzzy ideas may be built up using only adverbial roots. The site has three fonts. [Pablo Barenbaum]

Prime Lexicon

Prime Lexicon is a subset of English vocabulary including only those words that represent prime numbers when interpreted using base 36 (e.g., A=10, Z=35). [Dr. Chris K. Caldwell]

Ptokan

[Ryan Eakins]

Qatama

Qatama (pronounced /kha-ta-ma/, with the /kh/ as in Scottish loch) only has four vowel sounds and twelve consonant sounds. [Carl Buck]

Q'en|gài

[Henrik Theiling]

Qtwyqp Qly

This language is a failed and needlessly complex attempt at a constructed language that could be spoken much faster than any natural language. [Marq Thompson]

Radilu

[Chris Collins]

Ravenloftish

The language is similar to Sindarin, although much easier to learn then Sindarin (if you can speak English). It had Turkish grammar but the author decided to go back to English. [Eric Anger]

Rèaniano

Rèaniano is a Romantic lanuage. Rèaniano has a difficult and large verb system with 5 infinitive endings (-are, -ére, -ire, -ré, -ære). Rèaniano has difficult diphthong endings. Rèaniano also has many influences of italian and other romantic languages. Rèaniano grammar is based on italian, english, and spanish, while most verbs are dirived by looking at italian, french, spanish, and portuguese and favoring italian, make a verb, but some times i just make up something. [Giovanni Angelo Doveri]

Regelluga

On the surface, it has the look of a blatant Euroclone. But wait! Only a few roots actually derive from European tongues; it is the structure that you recognize. It intends to make conjugation and declension regular. It is coming into the shape of the mother tongue of a people who consider religion and business very serious matters. [Ben Poplawski]

Reñim

Most words are derived from a basic root which also serves as a verb infinitive and which when agglutinated forms the different word classes. The only gender is an impersonal it and all nouns are plural, consisting of three states: past, present and future. Certain nouns have dual forms, such as "double", "couple", "two", and "god." Vowels can never begin a syllable, and stress is on the second and fourth syllables of a word. There are currently over 500 words. [Martin F.]

Rigavie Sutanio

What makes this language unique is the irregular way to conjugate verbs: no conjugation for "I" and "You" but rather a conjugation for singular and plural, then add the pronoun indicating first, second or third person. [Nate]

Rinya

It is an active language (intransitive "subjects" can be marked as either A or P). Even the syntax is active. The active marking is based on control. Controlled events mark their sole argument as Agent, and non-controlled arguments are marked as Patient. It also features umlaut, mutation, a negative verb and OVS word order. [Daniel Andreasson]

Sakatda Ka Kadomo

One of the few conlangs based on an Austronesian Language, Sakatda Ka Kadomo is a personal language inspired by Tagalog, but it is also the fictional language of the Jakautdok people of the Sierra Madre Mountains in the northern Philippines. The web site has a lexicon of 200 items, a grammar and a unique script. [Barry Garcia]

Sarminath

[Edward field]

Sathir

Sathir is an ergative, infixing, VOS language, which is nothing new, but it features a binary definite/indefinite system (comprised solely of the definite infix /-t-/) that divides everything in the language: definite marking on nouns; past tense vs. non; perfect vs. imperfect; referential vs. non-referential; near vs. far; WH-words vs. conjunctions; reality vs. irreality; first-hand knowledge vs. second-hand knowledge; etc. [David J. Peterson]

SCSL

Virtually nothing. It has a Spanglish base with the occasional Japanese loanword and with loanwords from approximately 30 other languages. [Shanya Spiritskunk]

Seimi

Seimi is what would have happened to North Saami if the Saami had come to the Shetland Islands. [Daniel Andreasson]

Sheli

Though tone conlangs aren't as rare as they once were, they're still pretty rare, and Sheli is such a conlang. I expended a lot of effort trying to create a realistic tonal system, as well as to develop a hopefully realistic set of tone sandhi rules. In addition to this, Sheli makes use of an inverse system and an animacy hierarchy as opposed to valence-shifting and word order to conjoin phrases, etc. [David J. Peterson]

Shinoarnii

Shinoarnii was created with no real intent to create an entire language, but that is what has started to develop. With no basis in an existing language and a consonant pair with vowel tendencies, it is an alien, though readily pronounceable language. [Shiari]

Sinnish

Sinnish is a mostly inflected language, without a 'to be' verb and with a loose structure for the "verbing" of nouns and the "nouning" of verbs. Describing nouns is done almost entirely with participles. The lexicon uses mostly compound words and will have a diverse number of terms for describing elements of a number of alternative-sexuality subcultures. It also has a number of alphabets with others planned. It is designed as a personal language and as a language for an RPG background. [Scott 'Blade' Hamilton]

Skerre

The phonemic inventory lacks labials (although not labio-velars). The morphology includes some prosodic-based affixes, a lot of prefixes, and carries a fair amount of functional load. Syntactically, Skerre has several second-position clitics, has a split-ergative system between pronominals and nouns, and case is marked with pre-nominal prepositions. [Doug Ball]

Somish

"The word Somish comes from soma which means 'summer'. The language, like the season, is warm, free, and easy." Scandinavian rather than Romance roots, with syllables designed to avoid harsh combinations of consonants. [Aaron Chapman]

Straifpin'r

Straifpin'r (pronounced /STRAY F PIN ARE/) does not have individual letters as the alphabet but groups of letters make a sound. It also can be written in a shorthand or secret code as explained on my site. [Dtsdesign]

Susachi

I began devising this language at the age of 12. It has survived in a kernel form for over 30 years, and I don't want it to die. It is a blend of many languages, including Latin, French, Spanish, German and Cherokee, with many unique words. Yet it sounds a great deal like Russian. Designed to be a rich, robust and colorful language to tantalize the tongue with challenging twists and turns! Sample WAV files are included on my site. [Bradford L. Lewis]

Svargó

It does not have all those difficult past tenses! [Stefan Lubbersen]

Talhata

Talhata is unique in that word order indicates verbal tense. There are only two tense conjugations used: present-past and future-conditional. Shifting the position of the predicate in the sentence results in differentiating between the present and past tense, and the future and conditional tense. For example, I see you in Talhata is "vusaat sii" while I saw you is "sii vusaat". [David Stewart-Candy]

Tatsique

This is a hybrid of Indo-European languages, with a simplified but strange grammar and a quite difficult phonology. It also has a lot of dialects. It has a complete conculture with historic, geographical, demographic and cultural details. [Nicola Curat]

Telpuilkoc

Its sentences usually consist of verbs with prefixes and suffixes to indicate nouns, adjectives, etc. Except for verbs, most words have to be part of a larger word. [Eddy the Great]

Tepa

A unique personal language, professionally designed and presented, and rightfully highly regarded among the Internet community of language modelers. It is simply the most professional treatment of an artlang on the Internet. Dirk has two annotated texts well worth reading: Coyote Eats Rocks and Two Otters. His frame story about his sources is an excellent one; because of it, some innocent web surfers probably think Tepa is a real language. By the time you finish reading about Tepa, you may think it's a real language too! [Dirk Elzinga]

Tirelat

[Herman Miller]

Tokana

Another unique personal language, presented by a professional linguist as if written by a fieldworker studying the language. [Matt Pearson]

Toki Pona

Toki Pona is a cute, pidgin-like language that naturally reduces ideas to their most simple and universal meanings. The entire language has only 14 sounds and 118 words. Though not able to discuss topics such as politics or rocket science without some loss of meaning, Toki Pona functions extremely well as a conversational and thought-provoking tool. [Sonja Elen Kisa]

Torrin

[Jeff Hopkins]

Triparik

Triparik (or Triparian) is the language of a micronation, an artificial country, and as such is a group effort. Most of the root words are from Romance and Germanic languages, though Celtic tongues may end up contributing vocabulary. Designed to be fun but useful, the initial joke was that Triparian was "what Roman centurions used to chat up Gaulish barmaids." The web site features a thousand-word dictionary, a grammar, sample texts and the start of a primer. [Carrie Schutrick, J.W. Justice, Shawn Knight]

Tukbeyo

It is written again out of respect for an extinct tribe From the Newfoundland area called the Beothuks. Tukbeyo is pronounced /tuck-bay-oh/. [Dtsdesign]

Tunu

A most minimalistic combination of a 14-phonemes' phonology, a CVCV lexicon, an exception-free grammar and self-segregating word boundaries. [Mathias]

Tyl Sjok

Tyl Sjok has only one open class of words. These words can be regarded as verbs or nouns (and sometimes adjectives); however, they are not specified or understood to have a fixed function. Only translation introduces this distinction. The only grammar rule that combines the words is 'control'. Particles exist for clarifying the sentence structure, but they are all optional. This creates a very simple but extremely ambiguous language that will be a basis for derived languages. [Henrik Theiling]

Tymat

Tymat features heavy agglutination on verbs, to show tense, aspect, subject and object of the verb, among other things. This can produce very long words, such as Nokasapêkomerongalola, which means "Will you not have been eating it?" Syllable order is usually CV, although a little variation is allowed. [Shane Hodgson]

Un'ky'ok

It is a language of many accents and very descriptive words. It has 3 tenses: perfect, imperfect, and present perfect. It has only 3 declensions: masculine, feminine, and neuter. [Jordan Lavender]

Üqoi

Üqoi is being developed for an alien race, Zhoo'oonaiï, protagonists of a possible science fiction novel. The descriptive paradigms. When one wishes to express an emotional or other state, such as Motuulh dhnuuvai, "I am sad", the literal translation is "Sadness I am." Rarely, one might say Mozütuulh dhnuuvai, "sadness(passive voice) I am". Also, one would say thoineej dhuuvai, "it is burned", lit., "fire it is". Also, there is no direct translation of "it", "him", "her" or "them". To say "Talk to her", you would say Zhoonampej'ei aüqoi ("To herself speak"). Adjectival and possessive forms, numerical system. [Bruce V. Bracken]

Utésalañé

Utsalañé is based on Uelane, another one of my languages; it was supposed to lose the cases of the earlier languages, to make it simpler. It also was my first 'modern' tongue. [Jordan Lavender]

Vabungula

Vabungula has over 5500 words. [Bill Price]

Vaior

Vaior represents the merging of classical Greek grammar (simplified) and Inuktitut derivational processes (again, simplified in some ways, expanded in others) run through Quenya-like phonotactics. The result is the most coherent and beautiful language I've ever created. [William S. Annis]

Vendi

The site offers a primer, a grammer, sample texts, its own script, and a dictionary of over 400 words. [Chris Ashton]

Vixen

Apart from a few English loanwords and certain other features, Vixen's vocabulary has been created entirely by me. The grammar and sound systems are reasonably similar to English, although work in recent times has helped make it less Indo-European. For various reasons, standard Vixen has a verb system which is entirely regular apart from the unpredictability of passive forms, although certain other features (notably spelling) are somewhat erratic. [Curlyjimsam]

Voidä

The language has an interesting way of using direct objects. All noun cases can be changed not only by number and declination, but also by direct objects. Other features include a large number of cases, restriction of standalone pronouns, alternative verb forms and a somewhat complicated adjective system. [Kaspars Ozolins]

Vônánà

Vônánà has many more vowels (24) than consonants (12). It makes much use of diacritics in order to show the different vowel sounds. Vônánà was created as an experiment to see how such a language would look and sound. It contrasts with 'Lt'r, its 'sister conlang' (in that the two were created together), which has many consonants but very few vowels. [Curlyjimsam]

Vong

Vong is a tonal language with three tones: rising, falling, and even. [Victor Medrano]

Xail

Xail sounds pleasant and has eight vowels. Grammar is described logically. [Sampo Taito Louke]

Xara

Xara is designed to be a personal and creative means of communication. It has a precise but flexible grammar and syntax and a unique vocabulary. [Jim Taylor]

Yahina

It is to show respect for the last Yana-yahi Indian found in California; his name was Ishi and his story is cool and sad at the same time. I am going to do a lot with this language. There is possibly a small dictionary on Yana-yahi but I have not seen it; it was done in 1912. [Dtsdesign]

Yeaji

[Edward Field]

Yeledumel Thanusil

Rythmic and sounds pleasant [Eric Anger]

Yf Rgalin

Inspired by Lojban and Klingon, Yf Rgalin was developed to explore some features that were "amusing" to the author, while maintaining simplicity and regularity. It's a verb-first ergative language, with some attempt at Lojban-like regularity (but without quite so much rigor). There's some attempt to derive everything from verbs (except nouns). The phonology is slightly unusual; its sentence structure may be unique, as well as its verb structure (inspired by a feature in Basque). [Mark E. Shoulson]

Y-irril

[Jeremy Marshall]

Ypsìlònsk

Ypsìlònsk has 16 special characters taken from languages from all over the world. I tried to keep its grammar as simple as possible, but I don't know if I succeeded everywhere. The syntax is mainly based on German, also the cases are, but there are a few differences. Well, have a look yourself; you will see! [Yulyan Ròt]

Ýtádý

This language was derived out of my own frustrations with dyslexia and the English language. What is distinctive about this language is the thirteen different vowel sounds that never change, ensuring (along with a few other rules) that you can never pronounce or read this language incorrectly. [Ren Willocks]

Zegzolt

[Toni Keskitalo]

Zelknaym

It is another of my tributes to an extinct tribe; this one to a tribe in Southern Chile called the Selk'nams. Circa 1994, there were only two little old ladies left...probably gone now. I followed the few known words I could find and designed from there...enjoy! [Dtsdesign]

Zengo

Zengo is a language that allows Harrison to indulge his interest in words with five letters. The small vocabulary contains an eclectic mix of such words from different languages. Zengo was formerly called Penta (until Intel made him change the name :-). [Rick Harrison]

Zhyler

Zhyler features 57 noun cases, in part due to a diachronic change where all postpositions in the language fused onto the nouns they modified, at which point a vowel harmony system came into being. Zhyler also has 17 noun classes, not unlike those found in the Bantu language family. [David J. Peterson]

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Updated on January 10, 2005 at 3:36 PM (GMT-5).