Balaibalan
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Balaibalan () is the oldest known constructed language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Balaibalan
- Language.altname
- Bâleybelen
- Language.creator
- Fazlallah Astarabadi or Muhyî-i Gülşenî
- Language.fam2
- Holy language
- Language.region
- Turkey, Iran
- Language.speakers
- none
- Language.familycolor
- constructed language
- Language.created
- 14th–16th century
- Language.script
- Ottoman Turkish
- Language.iso3
- zba
- Language.glotto
- bala1318
- Language.glottorefname
- Balaybalan
- Language.ietf
- art-x-balaibal
- Language.notice
- IPA
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- described at URL
- langmaker.github.io/db/mdl_balaibalan.htm
- CLCR language code
- qba
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Balaibalan () is the oldest known constructed language.
== History == Balaibalan is the only well-documented early constructed language that is not of European origin, and it is independent of the fashion for language construction that occurred in the Renaissance. In contrast to the philosophical languages which prevailed then, and the languages designed for facilitating worldwide communication or for use in literature or film most prominent today, Balaibalan was probably designed as a holy or poetic language for religious reasons, like Lingua Ignota and perhaps Damin. Balaibalan may also have been a secret language which was only known by an inner circle.