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# Conlanging
*Conlangs*, short for *constructed languages*, are artificial
languages born out of the mind of a single individual (sometimes a
couple of them), unlike natural languages born through countless
iterations by their native speakers, slowly evolving over time like
English, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Bahasa, or !Xhosa did.
They can serve various goals from their creators:
- be spoken by as many people as possible as a neutral language, like
[Esperanto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto) and [Lingua
Franca Nova](https://elefen.org)
- be a secret language between a couple of people
- as a thought experiment, like [Lojban](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban)
- fill a litterary universe, like Tolkiens elvish languages or Star
Treks Klingon
- for the sake of art itself
In my case, the last two reasons are the main ones driving me to
create languages. My two main projects at the time of writing this
page are [Proto-Ñyqy](https://conlang.phundrak.com/proto-nyqy) and
[Eittlandic](https://conlang.phundrak.com/eittlandic). Both are
accompanied by their own worldbuilding project, although Proto-Ñyqys
worldbuilding is still largely secret while Eittlands worldbuilding
is mostly public.
More information can be found on my [conlanging
website](https://conlang.phundrak.com/).