Re: Presentation on Language Creation

David Peterson writes:
 >
 > 2.) Does anyone have any information on or any links to information on the
 > history of language creation--specifically, information on NON-Auxlangs from
 > way in the past?   I found a bunch of information on Auxlangs, but very
 > little on non, aside from the Voynich manuscript.   Is there anything out
 > there?
 >
Well, do you have anything on the Lingua Ignota of Hildegard of
Bingen?  I've heard it called the earliest known conlang, although
it's really only a partial relex.

http://www.invisiblelighthouse.com/langlab/ignota.html

Then there's the various philosophical languages of the 17th & 18th
centuries, particularly that one by that guy... I can never recall his
name...  Bishop John Wilkins.  I don't have any specific links, but
you should be able to find something online.

 > 3.) Concerning non-Auxlangs, again, what's of note?   There's Marc Okrand,
 > Tolkien, maybe the Blade movies can get a mention, maybe Magma, the new Star
 > Trek, or Star Trek in general, but what else?   How well, for example, is
 > Amman Iar known?   Are there any a priori conlangs created just for fun that
 > have gotten any attention whatsoever aside from the ones mentioned?   I mean,
 > I know a bunch of the conlangs of people on this list, and there are a bunch
 > I like, but I can't go through them all, and, if their situation is anything
 > like the situations of mine, then they don't exist, for the most part,
 > outside of me and my computer.
 >

Well, there's M.A.R Barker (Tsolyani etc.) and Suzette Haden Elgin
(Láadan).  They're somewhat known, if not exactly household names.
And Loglan/lojban, if they fit in this category.  I mean, none of
these languages are exactly known by the general public, but they are
at least known in some detail by people other than their creators.

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