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Engineered languages (sometimes abbreviated to
engilangs or
engelangs), are
constructed languages devised to test or prove some hypothesis about how languages work or might work. There are at least three subcategories,
philosophical languages (or
ideal languages),
logical languages (sometimes abbreviated as
loglangs) and
experimental languages. Raymond Brown describes engineered languages as "languages that are designed to specified
objective criteria, and modeled to meet those criteria"
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Some engineered languages have been considered candidate global
auxiliary languages, and some languages intended as international auxiliary languages have certain "engineered" aspects (in which they're more regular and systematic than their natural language sources).
Logical languages
Logical languages are meant to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements. They are typically based on
predicate logic but can be based on any system of formal
logic. The two best-known logical languages are the predicate languages
Loglan and its successor
Lojban, which aim to eliminate syntactical ambiguity and reduce semantic ambiguity to a minimum.
Ceqli is a derivative of Loglan which aims to retain the power of unambiguous expression but allow the speaker to trade off conciseness for unambiguity.
Philosophical languages
Philosophical languages are designed to reflect some aspect of philosophy, particularly with respect to the nature or potential of language.
John Wilkins'
Real Character and Edward Powell Foster's
Ro (External Link) constructed their words using a taxonomic tree. Vocabularies of
oligosynthetic languages are made of
compound words, which are coined from a small (theoretically minimal) set of
morphemes.
Suzette Haden Elgin's
Láadan is designed to lexicalize and grammaticalize the concepts and distinctions important to women, based on
muted group theory.
Sonja Elen Kisa's
Toki Pona is based on
minimalistic simplicity, incorporating elements of
Taoism.
Experimental languages
John Quijada's
Ithkuil is designed for maximum morpho-phonological conciseness. R. Srikanth's
Lin is designed for maximum orthographic conciseness. Mark P. Line's
Classical Yiklamu is designed as a basis for a
Russian lawn experiment, starting with grammatical simplicity and a large lexicon with no derivational morphology.
Examples of engineered languages
See the
List of Engineered Languages for examples.
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