Novial

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Novial - an artificial language

artificial language - a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose

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artificial language

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introduced his own constructed language, called Novial.

Constructed languages and copyright: a brief history and proposal for divorce

To help make the case, Fimi presents a short history of glossopeia in the primary world, detouring among Volapuk, Esperanto, Novial, and even zaum, the "experimental poetic language [of the] Russian Futurists" (90).

Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits

To buttress this claim, in chapter 7, she looks at the twentieth-century interest in universal languages, such as Esperanto, Ido, Volapuk, and Novial, and traces Tolkien's own views of the projects.