'Alien' languages created by global Linguists

Jan3,2024

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Jeffrey Henning decided to, in his own words, “invent a language that specifically violated linguistic universals and could never be spoken by a human in actual practice

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Fith

Denis Moskowitz, the creator of Rikchik, envisioned it as the language spoken by rikchiks. Rikchiks are fictitious, green, one-eyed aliens hailing from a planet in Alpha Centauri. 

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Rikchik

Dritok is a voiceless and vowel-less language that uses clicks, hisses, snorts, and fricatives instead of creating sound by vibrating vocal cords.

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Dritok

Lingua francas are languages that act as a bridge between people who don’t share a native tongue, such as Plains Indian Sign Language. 

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Lincos

Often described as a verbless language, Kēlen actually splits the syntactic and semantic functions of verbs.

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Iljena

Wolfgang John Weilgart, an Austrian psychoanalyst, has deep-rooted connections with the language aUI, tracing back to his early years.

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aUI

Logical and syntactically unambiguous language 

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Lojban

Minimalist language with 120-137+ words, with over 700 speakers

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