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If you are interested in submitting a language to the Model Language Index, and you have created a web site for it or you have uploaded a description of it to https://groups.yahoo.com/group/langmaker2/files/, please complete the following information. This enables me to do the best possible job of preparing a consistent and detailed index of model languages, which sets apart my index from the others on the Internet.

1. Please enter a basic description of the language.

Language:
URL to link to: *Required. (Only languages with published overviews are featured on LangMaker.com.)
Language web-site is written in:
Author:
Year first started:

2. How would you classify the language? (Select only the one that is most appropriate; refer to the Model Language Index itself for examples.)

Euroclone - An international auxiliary language derived primarily from European stock. Most have primarily Romance vocabulary and/or use Classical roots (Greek and Latin) and/or some English roots. (Usually, but not always, used pejoratively.)
fictional language - A model language intended to be used by characters in a fictional setting, typically for added verisimilitude and regardless of whether the fictional setting has been highly commercialized or barely outlined, whether the medium is a movie, a novel, a short story, a historical sketch, a game or something else.
fictional diachronic language - A model language with an elaborate fictional history, typically tracing its evolution from an ancestor language or language family (which may be a natural language or model language).
fictional naming language - A fictional language developed primarily to have a way to name the people, places and things of an imaginary world and therefore typically consisting of just a hundred or so words of vocabulary, with little or no grammatical details.
international auxiliary language- A model language intended as a lingua franca that will be easy for citizens of different countries to learn. An auxiliary language can be intended for worldwide use or for use within a region (typically Europe).
logical language - A model language intended to remove as much ambiguity (typically syntactical ambiguity) as possible from human communication.
personal language - A model language intended for personal amusement or edification.
philosophical language - A model language typically intended as an international auxiliary language, but with a schematic vocabulary, with the initial letters of the word indicating its place in a semantic hierarchy; in other words, the vocabulary is a priori rather than borrowing actual terms from other languages.
professional fictional language - A fictional language published professionally as part of a book, computer game or movie.
stealth language - A model language intended primarily for secret communications with others or oneself (through a journal).
superset language - A superset of a natural language, such as a slang for English. A superset language involves the creation of new vocabulary, but typically little grammatical change.

The next few questions will be used to prepare a succinct summary of the language for its Index entry.

3. What is unique about the language? [This is the most important question, as the answer to it will be shown on the LangMaker.com home page.]

4A. What other languages inspired it?

4B. (Optional) What are the design principles of the language?

5. Are any other people beside the inventor involved or interested in it, and -- if so -- why?

6. Please check all of the following that the web site you referred to has.

Dictionary/Phrasebook
Etymologies
Grammar
Sample texts
Unique script (alphabet, pictographs, etc.)
Primer (teaching the language, not just describing grammar)
Babel Text translation

7. If the language has a dictionary, approximately how many words are listed in it?

8. And, in case any followup is needed, please specify:

Your name:
Your e-mail address:

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I will hhttps:// pages on LangMaker.com for any "dead" language - a project you have documented but will not be updating. E-mail me if you want to do this. (Why? So I don't have to update any dead links later, if you upload it to a temporary site and then never re-post it.)

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This questionnaire was created by Perseus SurveySolutions for the Web.

4/21/99 - Thanks to B.Philip Jonsson for his suggested modifications to this form.