Línguas criadas artificialmente

List of constructed languages

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The following list of notable constructed languages is divided into auxiliary, ritual, engineered, and artistic (including fictional) languages, and their respective subgenres. All entries on this list have further information on separate Wikipedia articles.

Auxiliary languages[edit]

International auxiliary languages[edit]

International auxiliary languages (IAL) are languages constructed to provide easy, fast, and/or improved communication among all human beings, or a significant portion, without necessarily replacing native languages.

Name ISO Origin Creator Description

Solresol 1827 François Sudre Based on pitch levels sounded with their solfege syllables (a "musical language") although no knowledge of music is required to learn it.

Communicationssprache 1839 Joseph Schipfer Based on French.

Universalglot 1868 Jean Pirro An early a posteriori language, predating even Volapük.

Volapük vo, vol 1879–1880 Johann Martin Schleyer First to generate international interest in IALs.

Esperanto eo, epo 1887 L. L. Zamenhof The most popular auxiliary language ever invented, including, possibly, up to two million speakers, the highest ever for a constructed language and the only one to date to have its own native speakers (approximately 1,000).[1]

Spokil 1887 or 1890 Adolph Nicolas An a priori language by a former Volapük advocate.

Mundolinco 1888 J. Braakman The first Esperantido.

Bolak, "Blue Language" 1899 Léon Bollack Prospered fairly well in its initial years; now almost forgotten.

Idiom Neutral 1902 Waldemar Rosenberger A naturalistic IAL by a former advocate of Volapük.

Latino sine Flexione la-peano 1903 Giuseppe Peano "Latin without inflection", it replaced Idiom Neutral in 1908.

Ro 1904 Rev. Edward Powell Foster An a priori language using categories of knowledge.

Ido io, ido 1907 A group of reformist Esperanto speakers The most successful offspring of Esperanto.

Adjuvilo 1910 Claudius Colas An Esperantido some believe was created to cause dissent among Idoists.

Interlingue ie, ile 1922 Edgar de Wahl A sophisticated naturalistic IAL, also known as Occidental.

Novial nov 1928 Otto Jespersen Another sophisticated naturalistic IAL by a famous Danish linguist.

Sona 1935 Kenneth Searight Agglutinative language with universal vocabulary. Its 360 radicals can be combined to form new words.

Esperanto II 1937 René de Saussure Last of linguist Saussure's many Esperantidos.

Mondial 1940s Dr. Helge Heimer Naturalistic European language.

Interglossa igs 1943 Lancelot Hogben It has a strong Greco-Latin vocabulary.

Blissymbols zbl 1949 Charles Bliss An ideographic writing system, with its own grammar and syntax.

Interlingua ia, ina 1951 International Auxiliary Language Association A major effort to systematize the international scientific vocabulary. It aims to be immediately comprehensible by Romance language speakers and to some extent English speakers.

Intal 1956 Erich Weferling An effort to unite the most common systems of constructed languages.

Lingua sistemfrater 1957 Pham Xuan Thai Greco-Latin vocabulary with southeast Asian grammar.

Neo neu 1961 Arturo Alfandari A very terse Esperantido.

Babm 1962 Rikichi Okamoto Notable for using Latin letters as a syllabary.

Unilingua (now Mirad) 1966 (revised 1967 and 2022) Noubar Agopoff A priori ontological vocabulary. Every letter has semantic or functional meaning.

Arcaicam Esperantom eo-arkaika 1969 Manuel Halvelik 'Archaic Esperanto', developed to produce an archaic effect in Esperanto literature.

Eurolengo 1972 Leslie Jones Combines elements of English and Spanish.

Glosa 1975 Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby An evolution of Interglossa.

Kotava avk 1978 Staren Fetcey A sophisticated a priori IAL focused on cultural neutrality.

Uropi 1986 Joël Landais Based on the common Indo-European roots and the common grammatical points of the IE languages.

Poliespo 1990s? Billy Ray Waldon Esperanto grammar with significant Cherokee vocabulary.

Romániço 1991 Anonymous Vocabulary is derived from common Romance roots.

Europanto 1996 Diego Marani A "linguistic jest" by a European diplomat.

Unish 1996 Language Research Institute, Sejong University Vocabulary from fifteen representative languages.

Lingua Franca Nova lfn 1998 C. George Boeree and others Romance vocabulary with creole-like grammar.

Sambahsa-Mundialect 2007 Olivier Simon Mixture of simplified Proto-Indo-European and other languages.

Lingwa de planeta 2010 Dmitri Ivanov Worldlang based on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.