From Dana Nutter's Conlangs
Here are some conlang projects that I find noteworthy, so I encourage other conlang enthusiasts to take a look them.
Auxiliary Languages
- An international auxiliary language (IAL) published by Martin Schleyer in 1880.
- An international auxiliary language (IAL) first published by Dr. L.L. Zamenhof in 1887. The most popular conlang ever with estimates of as many as 2,000,000 users.
- A reformist language based mostly upon ideas from Esperanto.
- Another language based upon ideas from Esperanto, but with a lot more lexical influence from English.
- A proposal for an auxiliary language for Europe.
- An Esperanto-reform-based langauge with the main feature being that it is much more euphonic.
- An IAL proposed by well-known linguist Otto Jesperson in 1928.
- An IAL created by Edgar de Wahl, and published in 1922.
- A language project proposed by the International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA).
- Lingua Franca Nova / Лингуа Франка Нова (LFN)
- An IAL created by Dr. C. George Boeree featuring a more neutral and isolating grammatical structure.
- An idea for intercommunication within the European Union.
- An IAL project started by Rick Harrison. One of the first to feature a world vocabulary.
- An IAL project release in 2008 by Zeinelabidin Elhassi attempting to use a vocabulary from all the world's languages.
- An IAL by Rex May originally started as a reformed Loglan using English and Chinese lexical influences, but now evolved into a well developed world auxiliary language (WAL) with influences from diverse sources.
- A WAL by Jens Wilkinson described by its creator as a "new world pidgin".
- An IAL by Larry Sulky with a distinct polynesian-style morphology and phonology.
- A WAL by Risto Kupsala featuring a simple grammar and world vocabulary.
- A WAL proposal featuring a world vocabulary.
- A pan-Romance auxiliary language.
- A pan-Slavic auxiliary language.
- An auxiliary language for Africa created in 1970 by K. A. Kumi Attobrah.
- A group project that I started intending to create a WAL/IAL by democratic process. As of now (9-2008) the group has long since been dormant.
- An IAL project released in 2007 by Olivier Simon featuring Indoeuropean as its major influence.
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Proto-Languages / Reconstructed Languages
- Modern Indo-European (MIE)
- A reconstruction of the late Proto-Indo-European language by Carlos Quiles and María Teresa Batalla.
Experimental Language
- A laissez-faire approach to letting a language develop on its own starting with a dummy lexicon and grammar. Even the name "TAK" is only a placeholder for its future name.
Philosophical Languages
- A minimalistic IAL created by Kenneth Searight and first published in 1935.
- A minimalistic language proposed as an IAL.
- A very minimalistic language by Sonja Elen Kisa. Has a small but active user community.
Logical Languages
- A project started in 1955 by Dr. James Cooke Brown for testing the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
- A project started in 1987 by The Logical Language Group (LLG) based upon Loglan.
Fictional Languages
- From George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four".
- From Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange".
- From "Star Trek".
- Used in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
Artistic Languages
- A nice Low-Germanic language.
Personal Languages
- A language by Jim Taylor.
Sign Languages
- Gestuno / International Sign Language (ISL)
- An auxiliary sign (gestured) language for users of differing sign languages.
Constructed Scripts and Neographies
- A new script for writing English created Kingsley Read by in 1958.
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