Conlang

The conlang flag, representing the Tower of Babel

A conlang, short for "constructed language", is a language deliberately crafted by humans, rather than by natural evolution. People create conlangs for many reasons, and the conlangs they create fall into several types. Some conlangs, like Esperanto, are widely used; but most are never learned to the point of fluency by anyone.

Typology

There are a number of typological systems used to categorize conlangs. One of the most-well-known deals with the origin of the language's components: a priori vs a posteriori, with the former referring to languages that were created from scratch, and the latter referring to languages that were created from pieces of other already-existing languages. Another typology relates to the intentions of and methodologies used by the conlang's creator(s): artlangs (artistic languages), engelangs (engineered languages), auxlangs (auxiliary languages), and so-on. Languages may (and often do) belong to more than one type in each system.

Conlangs may also be typologized along the same lines as natlangs (natural languages); for example: morphosyntactic alignment, head-directionality, animacy, et cetera.

Nomenclature

There is some contention among conlangers around the differences between the words "planned", "constructed", and "artificial". Proponents of some extremely a posteriori languages, like Interlingua and Latino sine Flexione, eschew the term "artificial", and prefer to think of their respective tongues as having been standardized, or "planned". Others eschew the use of the term "artificial", feeling that there is nothing "unnatural" about the use of their language(s) for human communication; on the other hand, some philosophers have argued that all human languages are artificial. "Constructed" is a more-general term without these such connotations, and it has accordingly become the standard term used to refer to the origins of human-created languages.

Micronational conlangs

The micronational world is home to a number of conlangs, information about which can be found in the following table; though, please note that this directory is non-exhaustive:

Name	Native name	Usage	Official usage	Developer(s)	Regulated by	Code
Aethodian	ʼə́ plə ʼái fɔ tya	No speakers; still incomplete.	Aethodia	Miles B Huff	The Linguistics Jury of Aethodia	the
Apiyan	Fiaula apiana	Apiya	Apiya
Belcityan	Belcitese	Belcity	Belcity			bc/blc
Cet	Cet	Ceticilia Eodus Miakoku	Ceticilia Eodus Miakoku	Cet Consortium	Cet Consortium
Centralian	Centralsk	Kingdom of Centralia	Kingdom of Centralia	Centralian Ministry of Linguistical Development	Centralian Ministry of Linguistical Development	centr
Democratic Union British	Demokrata Uniista Britansk	Arura Novale Democratic Union of British States	Arura Novale Democratic Union of British States	Democratic Union of British States
Driets	Driezic	Drietsland	Drietsland	Seved I	Kånicist Akademie	dr/dri
Edallic	Edallic	Sirocco	Sirocco	Nicholas Woode-Smith
Finnian	Finnliec	Finnistan	Finnistan	Finn Putnam		fn
Glebish	Glebisk	Glebiania	Glebiania	Jakob Gleby	Department of Culture of Glebiania	gl/gle
Gutaish	Gütäisi	Bascal	none, recognised as a "Regional language" by Bascal.	Amir Syafiq	Gütäisisphrëagënkønswel	gt
Kyrete	Kyrete^[1]	Regelis		Soaring	Non-Regulated	krt
Lienish	Lienio sperhe	Lienish Sovereign Republic	Lienish Sovereign Republic	Michayel Lienere	Lienish Departament of Using Lienish Language (LDULL)
Linitian	Linitian	Linian, People's Republic of	Linian, People's Republic of	Maximilian Christian	Linitian State Bureau of Linguistics	ln
Malinovian	Gürdvürt	Malinovia, Kingdom of	Malinovia, Kingdom of	Lawrence I, King of Malinovia	Lawrence I, King of Malinovia	mn
Mussian	Dåććoćqi	Thulia	Thulia	None	None
Papian	Papiane	Koss	Koss	Lucas Campos	Academie den Lingui	pp
Phoklandian	Phoklandish	Phokland (formerly) Naveria	Refliasia Naveria (Arcelia)	Charles Ross		pp
Stradan	Stradans linguå	Pejaten Ruslandia The Badgers Strada Area Alliance Adiwiyata Sundan Republic Ameringpang Concordia	Pejaten Ruslandia Strada Area Alliance	Aaron Penyami	Koncil nyål Stradans linguå (February 2019 - November 2019) Ministry of soculed (November 2019 – present day)
Thulian	Ńotkósna srŕàneń	Thulia Aeland	Thulia Aeland	Svante Axelsson	Svante Axelsson
Prsänëan	Persänëtagarë	Prsänëa	Prsänëa	James E Wilary	Prsänëan Language Regulation Board	ps
Riküçreb		Rikuchar	Rikuchar	Bin Stùrd	Riküçreb Pak Yitü sü Ribizrøk (Proposed)	rc rcx
Siroccan	Sirokie	Sirocco	Sirocco	Daniel Anderson	Siroccan Language Authority	sp
Slavstrian	Cлaвcтpiшкiя язїкa	Tsardom of Slavstria	Tsardom of Slavstria	Matthew Manning	Slavstrian Ministry of Culture and Language	slv
Spaldian	Spaldsk	House of Nassau-Ter Haar	House of Nassau-Ter Haar	Unknown	House of Nassau-Ter Haar	sp
Sprinske	Langa Sprinske	2 Speakers	Sprinske Empire	Emperor Aaron I of Sprinske	Kolniaric Union
Vyomani	७ᓴፀժ☉ᓂႩ	2 speakers; incomplete	Vyomania	Maharaja Mohak I
Westlandian	Westlandisch	Westland	New Dale-Westland	A.T. Phoenix	Westlandian Language Institute	ws
Zairskaj	Zairskaj	Linian, People's Republic of	Linian, People's Republic of (Only regional, not official.)	Maximilian Christian		zr czr (Cyrillic) lzr (Latin)
Zealandian	Zålandienska	Zealandia	Zealandia	Charlotte Lindström	Zålandienska Språketinstitutiet	ze
Cópanajú	Cópanajú	Royal empire of copan	Royal Empire of Copan	Jarn Útréjúd ciit Cópan	Þan manesn celangrromkenoliip (The people's central institution of language knowledge)
Lululandian	Lululantien	Lululand	Lululand	Daniel Lim		lul
Essian	Essiai limba	N/A; "The language's development has been invested in the Essian Historical Society since the Commonwealth's dissolution"	N/A (Refer to Usage)		Ministry of Culture (Esse)
Kuhugi	Kuhugkesh	Republic of Kuhugstan	Republic of Kuhugstan	Max Kasbar	Kuhugkare Godena (Kuhugi Government)
Qootärfloams	Qootärfloams	N/A; The language's usage was previously in Empire of Qootärlænt;this country is now defunct.	N/A (Refer to Usage)
Ninjoan	Ninjoa'Æ	Imperial States of Forestria Most Great Puppet of the Grand Duchy of Krell	Imperial States of Forestria Grand Duchy of Krell	Elias Overholtzen	DoFaIR	lzr
Chowolian	Thowotileman	Chowolia^[2]	Chowolia	King and Prime Minister of Chowolia	Chowolian Language Institution
Proto-Cotter Menace	Suglogh	Cotter Menaceland	Cotter Menaceland	President Connor Hetner	Institute of the Cotter Menace and Suglogh Languages