Artlang
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An artlang is a constructed language designed for æsthetic and artistic beauty and generally contrasted with the pragmatically minded engelangs and auxlangs. With the growth of the conlanging community in recent decades artlangs have become perhaps the most active area of language creation and the vast majority of projects presented at fora like the ZBB fall into this category.
While a great many artlangs stand alone as self-contained projects, most have a fictional context ranging from a single story to a conworld spanning thousands of years and several continents. In the latter case artlangs may even have detailed histories within fictional language families. Although guided by æsthetic moreso than practical considerations, artlangs need not literally strive for beauty.
Types of artlang
Personal - Language existing for its own sake and usually without literary or narrative context.
Fictional diachronic - Part of a fictional language family, often derived from a proto-lang.
Alt-history - Draws on real languages but with different historical circumstances.
Meta-conlang - Fictional conlang, a language considered artificial within the world itself.
Examples
Quenya -
See also
