Conlanging

Neoslavonic is a dialect of Interslavic - the zonal constructed language.  It is an auxiliary language, which looks to be very similar to real spoken Slavic languages and continues the tradition of the Old Church Slavonic language. Neoslavonic shares grammar and common vocabulary with modern spoken Slavic languages in order to build a universal language tool that Slavic people can understand without any or with very minimal prior learning.  It is an easy-learned language for those who want to use this language actively.  Neoslavonic enables passive (e.g.  receptive) understanding of the real Slavic languages.  Non-Slavic people can use Neoslavonic as the door to the big Slavic world.

Although hundreds of artificial languages designed for international use have been created in the last few centuries (the best known of which is Esperanto), Korea has largely remained outside of this sphere of activity: most such languages were created in Europe or North America, and few of them make use of words from Korean. This is in spite of the fact that there is a reasonably active Esperanto movement in Korea. In this paper I shall examine the situation of artificial auxiliary languages in Korea and focus on the only major Korean artificial language, Unish, which was designed by some members of Sejong University, Seoul. Some properties of Unish will be examined in order to determine whether they can be attributed to the Korean linguistic context. I shall also look at the extent to which Korean vocabulary and grammar have been used in the construction of artificial auxiliary languages created in other countries.

Among the hundreds of artificial languages put forth as possible
international auxiliary languages, relatively few (e.g. Esperanto, Interlingua) have seen a substantial amount of actual use. Given this, one might think that the study of such languages might have little to offer pragmaticists, and indeed there has been very little pragmatic work on them. However, I would argue that the pragmatic investigation of artificial languages can provide useful insights and information.
Most designers of artificial languages are not professional linguists.
Although they usually say little or nothing about the pragmatics of their languages, what they do say can reveal popular ideas about pragmatics, which may otherwise be difficult to discover. I shall present and discuss relevant remarks by some artificial language designers. I shall also look at several pragmatic features of artificial languages. Although the amount of textual material available in most artificial languages is limited, what exists can be subjected to pragmatic analysis. Perhaps most intriguing are the a priori artificial languages (e.g. aUI), attempts to
build a language without borrowing anything from natural languages, as, on the surface, these languages can appear quite odd. I shall present some texts from several artificial languages with a view to seeing whether even apparently exotic artificial languages have the same pragmatic properties as natural languages. Such work can be seen as contributing to the study of cross-linguistic pragmatics

Note that this abstract contains some linguistic errors (I believe that it was written by someone other than me):

It is possible to classify Artificial Languages as well as Natural Languages into three main types, according to the forms of comparative adjectives. Artificial Languages can form the comparatives using only a synthetic strategy, or only an analytic strategy, or both of them accordingly. Artificial Languages that use only a syntetic strategy can be classified further according to the rules in choosing one strategy or the other. Some evidence shows that a large proportion of Artificial Languages have both analytic and synthetic comparatives, as in some natural languages. The formation of comparatives results to be an interesting area of morphology, where there is room for choice, also for Artificial Languages.

Artificial languages -- languages which have been consciously designed -- have been created for more than 900 years, although the number of them has increased considerably in recent decades, and by the early 21st century the total figure probably was in the thousands. There have been several goals behind their creation; the traditional one (which applies to some of the best-known artificial languages, including Esperanto) is to make international communication easier. Some other well-known artificial languages, such as Klingon, have been designed in connection with works of fiction. Still others are simply personal projects.
A traditional way of classifying artificial languages involves the extent to which they make use of material from natural languages. Those artificial languages which are created mainly by taking material from one or more natural languages are called a posteriori languages (which again include well-known languages such as Esperanto), while those which do not use natural languages as sources are a priori languages (although many a posteriori languages have a limited amount of a priori material, and some a priori languages have a small number of a posteriori components). Between these two extremes are the mixed languages, which have large amounts of both a priori and a posteriori material.
Artificial languages can also be classified typologically (as natural languages are) and by how and how much they have been used. Many linguists seem to be biased against research on artificial languages, although some major linguists of the past have been interested in them.

El presente trabajo analiza, primeramente, el conjunto de factores que en pleno siglo XVII favorecen la aparición de una auténtica necesidad por construir una lengua artificial, vehículo eficaz para la transmisión del saber científico entre los hombres de ciencia. En segundo lugar, pretendemos establecer una clasificación de los sistemas lingüísticos artificiales partiendo tanto de los propósitos por los que han sido creados como de los métodos utilizados por los autores para la concepción de los mismos. Palabras clave: lengua universal; lenguas artificiales; sistemas lingüísticos a priori; sistemas mixtos; lenguas a posteriori. ABSTRACT: The present work analyzes, firstly, the set of factors that in the 17th century favor the emergence of an authentic need to build an artificial language, an effective vehicle for the transmission of scientific knowledge among scientists. Secondly, we intend to establish a classification of artificial linguistic systems based on both the purposes for which they were created and the methods used by the authors for their conception.

This chapter examines possibilities for pragmemes and practs in artificial languages, and whether and how artificial languages differ in these respects from
natural languages. In some controlled languages (a type of artificial language), it is only possible to discuss a small set of topics, meaning that the set of possible
pragmemes is small. Some other artificial languages are designed for use by a particular group of people, in some cases by only one person. Such differences seem
to make some artificial languages quite unlike natural languages; that is, although artificial languages, no matter how strange they may seem on the surface, seem to
resemble natural languages in some areas (e.g. syntax), with respect to pragmemics they appear very different. However, if artificial languages are used to report on
pragmemes (e.g. in fiction), they may (and may have to) allow for a wider range of pragmemes and practs.

Handout for talk given at the Sydney Language Festival October 8, 2016. Vela is an artificial language designed by an Australian, Ben Prist, who considers it "the easiest language possible", and how appears rather defensive about it, as shown by some of the quotations in the handout.

Words for berries in natural languages are of several types: semantically transparent compounds, e.g. English blueberry, somewhat semantically opaque compounds, e.g. English cranberry and raspberry, where it is not clear what the semantic contribution of the first component is (if there is any), and non-compounds, e.g. French fraise 'strawberry'. In addition, the set of fruits which are labelled as berries can differ in different languages. Given this variation, it would be interesting to look at such words in artificial (or constructed) languages, i.e. languages which have been consciously created. The most successful artificial language is Esperanto, but there have been more than a thousand others. This paper will look at terms for berries in various types of artificial languages: a posteriori artificial languages (e.g. Esperanto), which use one or more natural languages as sources, a priori languages (e.g. Ro), which do not do this, and mixed languages (e.g. Volapük), which occupy a middle ground between the first two types. A posteriori languages can be further classified according to which languages they are based on. Questions to be investigated include whether terms for berries are compounds, and if so, whether they are fully transparent, which sources these terms are taken from (in the case of a posteriori languages drawing on more than one languages), the ways in which they are similar in form (in the case of some a priori languages), and which fruits are treated as berries. From this work one might uncover general trends in the development of the vocabularies of artificial languages.

The works produced along with this dissertation and presented as the result of my MFA consist of a narrative video, set in a foctional land, tracing the downfall of a secret society.This is presented alongside a looped photorealistic moving image of genderless, angelic  figures blinking, smiling, and intoning a hymn-like monotonous chorus.These two videos are projected on two large screens in a dark room in which there is bench seating which has been decorated in the style of the  fictional land to which the work belongs.These video works and the furnishing exist as outcrops of a larger whole.As they function as punctual materialisations of a set of geographies and histories—the Vyrcanian Federation —that I had been devising occasionally and randomly since childhood in my head, on scribbled bits of paper and on my computer; but the bulk of which has been developed during this MFA as fully realised artworks.As the result of this research, I also will install “behind the scenes” videos, maps and images relating to the construction of the Vyrcanian Federation, located behind the projection screens.
In the following dissertation I structure and expound the history of the Vyrcanian Federation, including the language in which the videos have been made; and I have composed this research following an encyclopaedic format. I include autobiographical details indicating the personal needs and proclivities that incited and guided to their creation, and discuss the cultural background inspiring them as well as the political questions they raise. For the latter I examine the works' roots in cartography, archaeology and the history of esotericism; and their relationship to the aesthetics of spirituality and of totalitarianism; and the films and artworks that have provided inspiration.

Talk given at the Sydney Language Festival, June 1, 2013. Fitusa is an a priori artificial language, but it appears to have been influenced a little by Esperanto.

A video of the talk can be see at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alf0Y0S_-cY

This paper is written by the president of the Slavic Union in the Czech Republic and describes methods and tools of the Slavic cultural diplomacy, which aim to improve the current status of Slavic nations in the context of today's globalized world. The first part is explaining the need for the Slavic cultural diplomacy, followed by the all-Slavic analysis of internal and external factors that cause the present dangerous situation. The following text is an overview of the theoretical researches and practical international projects, which could be used. The main part of this paper is the detailed SWOT analysis, and proposal of a new Slavic strategy for the future. This paper describes the AIDAS method of tactical management of individual projects. There is used the acculturation hypothesis by J. W. Berry about four variants of intercultural and international relations in the formulation of new strategy. This paper reflects author's practical experience in the recent all-Slavic movement and proposes the idea of better peaceable Slavic involvement in the processes of building modern world. There is an appendix to the program objectives of the Slavic Union at the end of this paper.

Nowruz is very important in countries such as Azerbaijan and Iran, but not well known in the most countries in Europe and the Americas. One would therefore not expect it to receive much attention in media and works in artificial auxiliary languages such as Esperanto (i.e. languages which have been created to facilitate international communication), since most such languages have been created by inhabitants of these countries. On the other hand, since designers and users of such languages generally have an international outlook, it would not be too surprising if mentions or descriptions of Nowruz did sometimes occur in them. In this paper I will discuss appearances of Nowruz (or lack of them) in such languages. One might first note the apparent total absence of references to Nowruz in major auxiliary languages other than Esperanto, e.g. in Volapük, Ido, and Interlingua. This can be explained by the fact that the heyday of these languages was before the current era of globalization, and knowledge of some less familiar countries and cultures was limited. In contrast, Nowruz occasionally appears in non-fiction in Esperanto, and in at least one work of fiction in that language, Ne eblas aplaŭdi unumane ('One cannot Applaud with One Hand') by Sten Johansson. The bulk of this paper will be a discussion of such occurrences.