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Language ([pronunciation of language name in U.S. English, broad IPA transcription]; natively [endonym, broad IPA transcription]) is a language of type XYZ, created by [author] in [year]. Its notable features include XYZ.
Background
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Author
About the author.
Aims
Why the language was created.
Name
Is the name of the language meaningful, or was it chosen for aesthetic reasons?
Influences
What languages were drawn on as inspirations in the development of the language?
History
Important events with approximate dates where known.
Design
Note language version if relevant.
Orthography
A chart showing grapheme-phoneme correspondences should appear here. Describe anything notable about the orthography, including any conventions. Subsections may be added as need be.
Phonology
Phonemes
Add subsections, e.g. "Consonants" and "Vowels," as need be.
Allophones
Interchangeable with a Phonetics section. Discuss assimilation here.
==== Phoneme classes ===+ Consonants, vowels, obstruents, stops, fricatives, sibilants, sonorants, continuants, liquids, nasals, semivowels, etc. Explain these classes if they are utilized in the phonotactics or morphology of the language.
Phonotactics
Restrictions on the occurrence and patterning of sounds in the language. Discuss the following here, if applicable:
- syllable structure
- voicing agreement and other agreement conditions
- long-distance rules (e.g. vowel harmony)
- morpheme- and word-level constraints (e.g. "a word may not begin and end with the same vowel")
Use personal judgment to decide whether such rules belong in the Morphology section.
Prosody
Stress, tone, quantity (length) and other suprasegmentals.
Morphology
Note typological features here, such as isolating and agglutinating.
Word classes
Describe word classes as morpho-phonological characteristics of each class.
Self-segregation strategy
Proper names
Syntax
Basic units
Nouns/arguments
Verbs/predicates
Quantifiers and qualifiers
Articles
Semantics
Compounds
Metaphor
Tense, aspect, modality
Logical issues/topics
Lexicon
Explain the origin of words and morphemes (a priori, a posteriori, etc.).
Word-creation protocol
Reception
Criticism
Sources
E.g.
- "Liva: A logical language"; Version 4.2 (2002.01). geocities.com.
- "Claudio Tommaso Gnoli". en.wikipedia.org.
- "Gnoli Triangle". frathwiki.com.
Logical Languages |
Loglan (1955)[stub] • Lojban (1987)[stub] • Voksigid (1991)[stub] • Gua\spi (1991)[stub] • Liva (1995)[stub] • Lojsk (2002)[stub] • X-1 (2005)[stub] • Trari (2009)[stub] • Xorban (2012)[stub] • Toaq (2013)[stub] • Tanbau (2014)[stub] • Eberban (2020)[stub] Xextan (2022)[stub] |
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Other Languages |
Ceqli (1996)[stub] • Latejami (1995)[stub] • New Ithkuil (2023)[stub] • CycL (?)[stub] • IKL (?)[stub] |