Artificial Linguistic Symbol System

An Artificial Linguistic Symbol System is a linguistic symbol system that has been intentionally designed rather than naturally evolved for expressing linguistic meaning and communication.

• Context:
  • It can typically serve Specific Purposes such as international communication, logical precision, or specialized domain representation.
  • It can typically follow Explicit Rules that have been consciously formulated rather than implicitly developed.
  • It can typically result from Deliberate Creation by identified creators at specific time points.
  • It can typically aim for Design Goals such as logical consistency, grammatical regularity, or easy learnability.
  • It can typically eliminate Natural Language Irregularitys through systematic structures and exception-free rules.
  • It can typically undergo Planned Modifications through standard-setting bodys or design iterations.
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  • It can often address Perceived Deficiencys in natural languages such as ambiguity, inconsistency, or cultural bias.
  • It can often incorporate Design Principles from linguistics, logic, information theory, or communication science.
  • It can often require Explicit Documentation including grammar guides, vocabulary lists, and usage manuals.
  • It can often face Adoption Challenges related to community building, learning investment, and utility demonstration.
  • It can often experience Evolution Tensions between original design and practical usage adaptation.
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  • It can range from being a Complete Language System to being a Specialized Notation System, depending on its functional scope.
  • It can range from being a Naturalistic Design to being a Highly Abstract Design, depending on its resemblance to natural languages.
  • It can range from being a Grassroots Creation to being an Institutional Creation, depending on its development context.
  • It can range from being a Theoretical Linguistic System to being a Practically Applied Linguistic System, depending on its usage extent.
  • It can range from being a Rigidly Controlled System to being an Evolution-Permitting System, depending on its change regulation.
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  • It can have Design Philosophys guiding its structural choices and functional prioritys.
  • It can have Formal Specifications documenting its grammatical rules and vocabulary components.
  • It can have Usage Communitys contributing to its practical development and cultural context.
  • It can have Technical Propertys such as computational tractability, formal verifiability, or semantic precision.
  • It can have Pragmatic Contexts determining its appropriate use cases and communication scenarios.
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• Examples:
  • Constructed Languages for General Communication, such as:
    • International Auxiliary Languages, such as:
      • Esperanto designed for cross-cultural communication with grammatical regularity.
      • Interlingua designed for interlingual comprehensibility with romance language basis.
      • Ido designed as a reformed Esperanto with grammatical simplifications.
    • Philosophical Languages, such as:
      • Lojban designed for logical precision and cultural neutrality.
      • Toki Pona designed for minimalist expression with only 120 root words.
    • Artistic Languages, such as:
      • Klingon designed for the Star Trek universe with deliberately alien grammar.
      • Na'vi designed for the Avatar film with naturalistic sound system.
      • Elvish Languages designed by Tolkien for Middle-earth literature.
  • Formal Linguistic Systems, such as:
    • Programming Languages, such as:
      • Python designed for readability and code simplicity.
      • Prolog designed for logical programming.
    • Specification Languages, such as:
      • Unified Modeling Language for software system representation.
      • Z Notation for formal specification.
  • Specialized Notation Systems, such as:
    • International Phonetic Alphabet for phonetic transcription.
    • Chemical Notation for molecular structure representation.
    • Mathematical Logic Notation for logical relationship expression.
    • Blissymbolics for visual communication with concept symbols.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Natural Languages, which evolve organically through collective usage rather than deliberate design.
  • Natural Language Writing Systems, which develop through historical evolution rather than explicit creation.
  • Non-Linguistic Artificial Symbol Systems, such as traffic sign systems or warning label systems, which lack grammatical structure and compositional syntax.
  • Pidgin Languages, which emerge through contact necessity rather than intentional design despite being partially artificial.
  • Computer Protocols, which specify data exchange formats without necessarily encoding natural language.
• See: Constructed Language, Formal Language, Programming Language, Linguistic Symbol System, Language Design, Artificial Language, Language Planning, Notation System.

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