Constructed & Invented Languages

Описание: LINKS and WHATNOT
1.) Lingua Ignota - Hildegard von Bingen!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_i...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegar...

2.) "linguistic artifacts" -- We need more of these.

3.) Human languages disappearing:
http://www.ethnologue.com/endangered-...

4.) Conlangs as model langs:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/h...

5.) See also, Ian Watson - "The Embedding" for a fictional look at what language can and can't do with the human brain.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Embedding-I...

6.) Writing tablet, "Phonecian inscriptions" found online.

Codes & Naming Languages
7.) Shavian, a way of writing English, invented by George Bernard Shaw: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/shavi...

8.) Lapine, in Richard Adams's "Watership Down"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapine_l...

9.) Languages of Frank Herbert's "Dune" series:
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Category:L...

10.) Harry Potter magical language:
http://www.languagerealm.com/hplang/l...

11.) "Quest for Fire"-- go see this movie. The Neanderthal language was created by Anthony Burgess, who also created Nadsat for "A Clockwork Orange". The Sapiens' language was apparently a hodgepodge of Cree/Inuit words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_fo...)

Full Langs
12.) Klingon: http://www.kli.org/
13.) Dothraki: http://www.dothraki.org/
14.) Sindarin... for all of Tolkien's languages, start here:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Languages
or go buy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Languages-Tolki...

15.) Láadan
http://www.laadanlanguage.org/

16.) Esperanto
The World Esperanto Association: http://www.uea.org/
or, I personally like: Lernu! http://en.lernu.net/

17.) Ido
18.) Novial
For both Ido & Novial, start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novial#N...

Underdeveloped Langs
19.) SolReSol
If the site is still up, see: http://mozai.com/writing/not_mine/sol...

20.) Khuzdûl, Entish (see #14, above)

21.) Clan of the Cave Bear. Apparently, the language of the novel is not manual, but totally vocal. I guess I need to read the books.

AuxLangs
22.) I'm not anti-German by any means. Love the language, love the people, just got back from Berlin. But there is an easily accessed history there... Anti-German WWI Propoganda posters:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/ww...

23.) Esperanto (see #16, above)
24.) SolReSol (see #19, above)
--SolReSol video created by Evan Wilson for my LIN 312 class at UT, Fall 2005. You can see the full video here: http://dsbigham.net/teaching.html#stu...

Philosophical Langs
25.) Loglan: http://www.loglan.org/
26.) some links about BASIC:
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Program...
27.) Python: http://www.python.org/

Art Langs
28.) Klingon (see #12)
29.) Dothraki (see #13)
30.) Quenya, Sindarin (see #14)
31.) Láadan (see #15)

Personal Langs
32.) Lingua Ignota (see #1, above)
33.) Voynich Manuscript is another good example of a likely personal lang / code:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_...