Patterns & Metaphors
Artificial language
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Artificial or synthetic language is a language based on a set of rules established before its actual use. Unlike natural languages, artificial languages are constructed purpose fully. There are two types: information languages and international auxiliary languages. The former are used for performing certain functions of a natural language in data processing systems. Schemes for the latter were aimed mainly at the development of a rational language, free from the inconsistencies of living languages and based on the logical classification of concepts. Esperanto is the only artificial language to be used on a large scale and to motivate proponents of an international language. But although a considerable number of translated and even original literary works exists in Esperanto, the language itself has failed to become the internationally spoken language it was intended to be, precisely because it is an artificial language, deprived of the spontaneous vitality of a natural language.
