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Esperanto () is the world's most widely spoken constructed auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 as "the International Language" (), it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication. He described the language in ''Dr. Esperanto's International Language'' (known as , the "first book"), which he published under the pseudonym . Early adopters of the language liked the name and soon used it to describe his language. The word translates into English as "one who hopes".

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Uralic language

Indo-Aryan language

Interlingue (; ISO 639 ie, ile), originally Occidental (), is an international auxiliary language created in 1922 and renamed in 1949. Its creator, Edgar de Wahl, sought to achieve maximal grammatical regularity and natural character. The vocabulary is based on pre-existing words from various languages and a derivational system which uses recognized prefixes and suffixes.

Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka

auxiliary constructed language, originally created by C. George Boeree, and largely based on a Romance substrate partially creolized then modified by some evolutive rules of simplification

Dravidian language native to South India

official language of Nepal

Celtic language spoken in France

Indo-Aryan language

Brythonic Celtic language indigenous to Cornwall

Pāli (; IAST: ) is a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is widely studied as the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism and the language of the Tipiṭaka. Pali was designated a classical language of India by the Government of India on 3 October 2024.

latest stage of the Egyptian language

language belonging to the Avar–Andic group of the Northeast Caucasian language family

extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia

language that was used in the Ottoman Empire

Novial is an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Danish linguist Otto Jespersen in 1928. It was designed to facilitate communication between speakers of different native languages. The name of the language is a blend of the Novial word novi (meaning 'new") and IAL.

language of ancient Sumer

Sino-Tibetan language of central-eastern Nepal

register of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia

ancient Mediterranean language

extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language

ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean

common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world

Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine). In a wider sense, it also comprises varieties of Celtic that were spoken across much of central Europe ("Noric"), parts of the Balkans, and Anatolia ("Galatian"), which are thought to have been closely related. The more divergent Lepontic of Northern I

extinct Turkic language of Central Asia

non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome

extinct Romance language

extinct Western Baltic language

Quenya () is a constructed language, one of those devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for the Elves in his Middle-earth fiction.

extinct Germanic language spoken in the Northern Isles of Scotland

extinct West Slavic language

The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they were ethnically distinct from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and who displaced and replaced the Cimmerians.

ancient language in Mesopotamia

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian

language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century

Ugaritic ( ) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle. The script is described as “a special alphabetic Cuneiform,” reflecting an idiom related to Canaanite and Hebrew languages.

constructed science-fiction language

Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon in Myanmar and Thailand

extinct ancient Indo-European language

extinct language of southern Italy

Italian comune

archaic form of the Hebrew language

language

stage of the Japanese language during the Heian period (794–1185)

historical Slavic language, ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian; official, literary and spoken language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Moldavian principality and East Slavic voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Cumbric is an extinct Celtic Brythonic language or dialect that was spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what is now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. Place-name evidence suggests Cumbric may also have been spoken as far south as Pendle and the Yorkshire Dales. The prevailing view is that it became extinct in the 12th century, around the incorporation of the Kingdom of Strathclyde into the Kingdom of Scotland.

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extinct Indo-European language

Kotava (sometimes also spelled Kodava) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) created by Staren Fetcey in 1978 that focuses on the principle of cultural neutrality. The name means "the language of one and all", and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and universal, utopian and realistic". The language is mainly known in French-speaking countries and most learning materials for it are in French.

earliest attested form of Turkic, found in Göktürk and Uyghur inscriptions dating from about the 7th century to the 13th century

extinct language spoken by the Picts

extinct dialect of the Phoenician language spoken in North Africa and the Western Mediterranean

dialect of Indo-European language spoken by the Phrygians

the standardized and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in most formal speech

Sindarin is one of the constructed languages devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the Elves.

extinct Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia

Romance language formerly spoken in the Iberian Peninsula

extinct East Germanic language