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[[File:Dalgarno Ars Signorum.jpg|thumbnail|225px|Title page of ''Dalgarno's Ars Signorum'' (1661).]] | |||
'''''Lingua philosophica''''' ("the philosophical language") is a very early constructed language invented by George Dalgarno (c. 1626-1687), a Scottish schoolteacher, published by him in his ''Ars Signorum'' ("Art of Signs"), a lengthy essay published in 1661 which both attempted to set out the philosophical basis of language, as Dalgarno perceived it, and to sketch (in some detail) a constructed language that would, ideally, represent each idea by a word, related ideas by related words, and be sufficiently rational to train its learners' minds in philosophical rigor. | '''''Lingua philosophica''''' ("the philosophical language") is a very early constructed language invented by George Dalgarno (c. 1626-1687), a Scottish schoolteacher, published by him in his ''Ars Signorum'' ("Art of Signs"), a lengthy essay published in 1661 which both attempted to set out the philosophical basis of language, as Dalgarno perceived it, and to sketch (in some detail) a constructed language that would, ideally, represent each idea by a word, related ideas by related words, and be sufficiently rational to train its learners' minds in philosophical rigor. | ||
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==Sounds== | ==Sounds== | ||
[[File:Ars signorum sample.jpg|thumbnail|225px|Dedication from George Dalgarno's ''Ars signorum'', written in his proposal for a universal language. An English gloss has been added.]] | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
i, e, η, a, o, υ, u | i, e, η, a, o, υ, u | ||