artificial language

/ˈɑrdəˌfɪʃəl ˌlæŋgwɪdʒ/

Other forms: artificial languages

Definitions of artificial language

1. noun

   a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
   antonyms:

   natural language

   a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language

   types:

   Antido

   an artificial language related to Ido

   Arulo

   an artificial language intended for international use as an auxiliary language

   Basic English

   a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication; devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards

   Blaia Zimondal

   an artificial language

   Esperantido

   an artificial language based on Esperanto and Ido

   Esperanto

   an artificial language based as far as possible on words common to all the European languages

   Europan

   an artificial language proposed as an auxiliary European language

   Idiom Neutral

   an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on Volapuk but with a vocabulary selected on the basis of the maximum internationality of the roots

   Interlingua

   an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages

   Ido

   an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of Esperanto

   Latinesce

   an artificial language based on Latin

   Latino

   an artificial language based on words common to the Romance languages

   Lingualumina

   an artificial language

   Lingvo Kosmopolita

   an artificial language

   Monario

   an artificial language

   Nov-Esperanto

   an artificial language based on Esperanto

   Novial

   an artificial language

   Nov-Latin

   an artificial language based on Latin

   Occidental

   an artificial language

   Optez

   an artificial language

   Pasigraphy

   an artificial international language using characters (as mathematical symbols) instead of words to express ideas

   Ro

   an artificial language for international use that rejects all existing words and is based instead on an abstract analysis of ideas

   Romanal

   an artificial language

   Solresol

   an artificial language

   Volapuk

   one of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots

   programing language, programming language

   (computer science) a language designed for programming computers

   pidgin

   an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages

   Latino sine flexione

   Latino without inflectional morphology

   algorithmic language

   an artificial language designed to express algorithms

   assembly language

   a low-level programing language; close approximation to machine language

   computer language, computer-oriented language, machine language, machine-oriented language

   a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers

   multidimensional language

   a programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension

   object language, target language

   a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated

   object-oriented programing language, object-oriented programming language

   (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure

   one-dimensional language

   a programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters

   stratified language

   a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage

   unstratified language

   a programming language that (like natural language) can be used as its own metalanguage

   LISP, list-processing language

   a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists

   Prolog, logic programing, logic programming

   a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing

   COBOL

   common business-oriented language

   C

   a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system

   BASIC

   a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use

   Pascal

   a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach

   Chinook Jargon, Oregon Jargon

   a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America

   type of:

   language, linguistic communication

   a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols