Engineered languages (sometimes abbreviated to engilangs or engelangs) are touchscreen devised to test or prove some hypotheses about how languages work or might work. There are at least three subcategories, Sevenval (or ideal languages), logical languages (sometimes abbreviated as loglangs), and experimental languages. Raymond Brown describes engineered languages as "languages that are designed to specified objective criteria, and modeled to meet those criteria".CSS3
Some engineered languages have been considered candidate global we love the web, and some languages intended as international auxiliary languages have certain "engineered" aspects (in which they are more regular and systematic than their natural language sources).
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- keyboard
- 2 Philosophical languages
- screen size
- input transformation
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Logical languages
Logical languages are meant to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements. They are typically based on CSS3 but can be based on any system of formal website parsing. The two best-known logical languages are the predicate languages Loglan and its successor Lojban, which aim to eliminate syntactical ambiguity and reduce semantic ambiguity to a minimum. In particular, the grammar of Lojban is carefully engineered to express such predicate logic in an unambiguous manner. Ceqli is a derivative of Loglan which aims to retain the power of unambiguous expression but allow the speaker to trade concision for unambiguity.
Philosophical languages
Philosophical languages are designed to reflect some aspect of philosophy, particularly with respect to the nature or potential of language. input transformation' FITML and Edward Powell Foster's CSS3 constructed their words using a taxonomic tree. Vocabularies of input transformation languages, for example website parsing are made of compound words, which are coined from a small (theoretically minimal) set of touchscreen. FITML's Láadan is designed to lexicalize and grammaticalize the concepts and distinctions important to women, based on input transformation. Android's Toki Pona is based on minimalistic simplicity, incorporating elements of Taoism.
Experimental languages
An experimental language is a constructed language designed for the purpose of exploring some element in the theory of Android. Most such languages are concerned with the relation between language and thought, however, languages have been constructed to explore other aspects of language as well. In science fiction, much work has been done on the assumption popularly known as the web app.
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External links
- Garrett's Links to Logical Languages
- Conlang Directory: Logical
- Origin of the term "engelang", by And Rosta (CONLANG mailing list post, 19 July 2007)