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'''Kēlen''' is a [[constructed language]] created by Sylvia Sotomayor.  It is an attempt to create a truly [[w:alien language|''alien'' language]] by violating a key [[w:linguistic universal|linguistic universal]]—namely that all human languages have verbs.  In Kēlen, relationships between the noun phrases making up the sentence are expressed by one of four ''relationals''.  Despite this, Kēlen is an expressive and intelligible language; texts written in Kēlen have been translated into other languages by several people other than the creator of the language, as may be seen [http://steen.free.fr/relay10/old_relays.html here].  In [http://podcast.conlang.org/2009/02/lcs-podcast-interview-with-sylvia-sotomayor/ this interview] Sotomayor states that she aims for Kēlen to be naturalistic apart from its verblessness, and that to achieve this she employs the principle "change one thing and keep everything else the same".