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Re: History of constructed languages

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Friday, April 1, 2005, 17:04
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From: "Jeffrey Henning" <jeffrey@...>

> Besides "Gulliver's Travels" (the Houhynm language isn't on the list), the > earliest use of a conlang in a work of fiction was Barsoomian in 1900: > http://www.langmaker.com/barsoom.htm
Rather, I think Thomas More, who published with his Utopia a sample of "Utopian." Early sixteenth century. Sally