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Constructed Languages

Constructed Human Languages

http://www.quetzal.com/conlang.html

A site containing listings and links to further information on constructed human languages. Constructed human languages are planned languages created by humans. The site is a good starting point for any one interested in non-natural languages.

Esperanto Access

http://www.webcom.com/~donh/esperanto.html

Esperanto is the most successful created language and is spoken by some two million people world wide. Check out this site for a good introduction to Esperanto. The introductions are made available in English, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, and many other languages.

Home Page on Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics

http://infoweb.magi.com/~mfettes/

This site is an index to English language sites on "planned" or "international" languages. It focuses on Esperanto because of more than 900 attempts to create international languages, only Esperanto has been successful. Esperanto is thus used as a tool in the branch of linguistics known as interlinguistics, or the study of how languages are used to communicate between two different groups.

The Klingon Language Institute

http://www.kli.org/

This site is for "scholars" wishing to study the Klingon language from the Star Trek TV series. Lots of information is available on the language and you can even learn to speak Klingon using the site.

The Languages of Star Trek

http://home.earthlink.net/~cpinette/treklang.html

This site serves as an index to Internet resources available on some of the languages used on the Star Trek TV Series. Information is available on Bajoran, Cardassian, Ferengi, Klingon, Tarmarian (Darmok), Romulan, and Vulcan. A wealth of downloadable software is also available through this site. Goodies like phrase books and dictionaries, fonts, and translators can be found here.

Tengwar

http://www.dcscomp.com.au/jewell/tolkien/tengwar/

Tengwar is the written language of the elven people described in the books of J.R.R. Tolkien. Here you can find information regarding this interesting constructed language. It includes explanations of Tengwar writing and links to Tengwar fonts for windows and Macintosh computers.