Talk:List of constructed languages

Logical languages

Lojban and Loglan are hardly auxilary languages - they're logical languages (created primarily to test Sappir-Whorf hypothesis). But that would require a third category.

Removing items from these lists

This atricle lists numerous languages that don't seem to meet the criteria of constructed languages: a clearly defined phonology, grammar (syntax and morphology), and vocabulary. Specifially many of the languages in the Artistic/fictional languages section don't. For example, nothing is known about the phonology and grammar of Orwell's Newspeak, and little about its vocabulary. (I don't remember if Orwell cites a full sentence in Newspeak. Anyway, if Orwell created a language that diverges more than any local dialect from Standard English he concealed it from his readers.) Other items seem to exist only as random syllables rather than languages. They are certainly not what linguists, and conlangers who spend a lifetime developing languages, call constructed languages. Not even close to that.

I am afraid I don't know how to identify the would-be languages, so my proposal is to delete all questionable entries and only add new ones if they are sufficiently sourced with a description that covers the above-mentioned three basic elements of language. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 17:27, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

@LiliCharlie: This article once included a list of knowledge representation languages, but it was removed in this revision. Do those languages not meet these criteria? Jarble (talk) 20:56, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

I agree that we should remove the nonexistent conlangs from the list, but as far as I can tell,other users feel newspeak is an exception due to its fame. Pandacthulhu (talk) 17:16, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Toki Pona Wikipedia

The article mentions that there was a Wikipedia in Toki Pona, which was deleted. The Toki Pona community has since created their own lipu Wikipesija, should this be mentioned in that section aswell? Catgirl-su (talk) 07:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

It should be mentioned in the main article on Toki Pona rather than here, I think.

Paul S (talk) 15:32, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Arbitrary Distinctions

Some of the distinctions in the Languages Used In Fiction section seem arbitrary. Why is Klingon in the film section but Vulcan and Romulan are in the television section? I propose merging the "film" and "television" sections into a "film and television" section. I also think comic books should be rolled into literature. Pandacthulhu (talk) 15:47, 8 October 2024 (UTC)