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)