Guide:Classification

• Purpose
  • Artlang: a language that is created for artistic purposes
  • Auxlang: a language made and to facilitate international communication
  • Engelang: enginereed languages are created for philosophical and experimental purposes
• Style
  • Relex: a language that is just the grammar of another language with different words or endings
  • Romlang: a language intended to be of the Romance language family
  • Altlang: a language based in an alternative history
  • Exolang: a language used by non-humans that may contain sounds humans cannot produce or methods humans cannot use
  • KSL: a kitchen sink language hogs all the grammar
• Origin
  • A posteriori: conlangs that take their vocabulary from one or more natural languages (even if the grammar is very different from those natlangs)
  • A priori: conlangs have vocabulary whose phonological forms were invented from scratch (even if their grammar is strongly influenced by certain natlangs)