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artlangs

artlangs is the plural of artlang.

Meaning of artlang

Noun

artlang (plural artlangs)

  1. A conlang created for artistic purposes or aesthetic ideals.
    • The idea was for "functionlang" to be a useful term to describe a certain group of conlangs that weren't fitting into the pattern. Those being the (relatively rare) conlangs that were not artlangs, logiclangs, or auxlangs, but instead designed around some *other* specified purpose(s).1997 November 18, Jack Durst, “Proposal: new language-type name (fwd)”, alt.language.artificial.ngl, Usenet

Questions about artlangs

What is artlangs the plural of?
Artlangs is the plural of artlang.

Words near artlangs in the dictionary

  1. artizan
  2. artizans
  3. artlang
  4. artlanger
  5. artlangers
  6. artlangs
  7. artless
  8. artlessly
  9. artlessness
  10. artlessnesses
  11. Artlett

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Adapted from Wiktionary: artlangs (page history and authors); artlang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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