ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificial language mean? 

• ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("artificial language" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artificial language"):

Monario (an artificial language)

pidgin (an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages)

programing language; programming language ((computer science) a language designed for programming computers)

Volapuk (one of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots)

Solresol; Romanal (an artificial language)

Ro (an artificial language for international use that rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas)

Pasigraphy (an artificial international language using characters (as mathematical symbols) instead of words to express ideas)

Optez; Occidental (an artificial language)

Nov-Latin (an artificial language based on Latin)

Novial (an artificial language)

Nov-Esperanto (an artificial language based on Esperanto)

Antido (an artificial language related to Ido)

Lingvo Kosmopolita; Lingualumina (an artificial language)

Latinesce (an artificial language based on Latin)

Ido (an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto)

Interlingua (an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages)

Idiom Neutral (an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on Volapuk but with a vocabulary selected on the basis of the maximum internationality of the roots)

Europan (an artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language)

Esperanto (an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages)

Esperantido (an artificial language based on Esperanto and Ido)

Blaia Zimondal (an artificial language)

Basic English (a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication; devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards)

Arulo (an artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language)

Antonym:

natural language (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)