Languages like English, French, Japanese, and Swahili are natural languages; they have evolved over time, within a community of speakers, with a shared culture, to facilitate communication. At an ...

In a linguistic arena once dominated by self-serious constructed languages, goofiness has gained a foothold. By Sam Corbin Sam Corbin has now seen enough “Minions” memes to last her a lifetime. The ...

But while the genesis of so-called natural languages are lost in the mists of time, we can often, more easily, pinpoint the birth of constructed languages. The invention of a new language is motivated ...