constructed language
/kənˈstɹʌktəd ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any language—whether a human language, a programming language, or markup language—that is not a natural language.
noun
A human language that has been consciously devised by an individual or a group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language.
noun
Any language used by people, as opposed to less civilized means of communication, such as the socialization between animals.
Archaic
Example Sentences
- "So if the constructed language is machine code, that is very fine, because the syntax (the grammar) is very simple and the meaning of each instruction can be verified [...]"
- "Considering the versatility of natural language, it is indeed astonishing that constructed languages like algebra and programming languages were introduced and became successful."
- "Among the kinds of expressive vocabularies that a speaker or writer may employ are emotional, moral, religious, aesthetic, scientific, technical, logical, mathematical, natural language, and constructed language (such as programming language or indexing language) vocabularies."
- "The first practical constructed language was the south-west German Pastor Schleyer's Volapük from 1879; its complicated grammar and irregular vocabulary made learning difficult, however. The most successful has been Esperanto, devised by the Warsaw ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887, that today can count some one million speakers."
- "[...] Unas Language from the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 is a simplistic constructed language that lends itself to quick, sharp sentences."
- "It has been said that— when I made the observation, that if they were not married they ought to be—I endeavoured to stab their reputation. Now, I'll prove that I endeavoured to do nothing of the sort. [...] I'll prove it by logic, and I defy all the mathematicians in the habitable globe to known it down. I'll prove it by the regular mathematical construction of the English language, and will any man tell me there's any constructed language in the universe more mathematically regular than that?"