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Here are links you might find useful if you are interested in language design. If you find a bad link, click on the G to google for the new URL.

Archives of the Conlang Mailing List
Large searchable archive of the mailing list.
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Archives of the Conlang Mailing List, 1991-94
These are the early archives.
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Artificial Languages
An essay on the nature of artificial languages, by Robert Isenberg.
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Constructed Human Languages
Chris Bogart's page of links.
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Conversational Maxims and Principles of Language Planning
Scholarly article on brevity, ambiguity and redundancy in planned languages, by Hartmut Traunmüller.
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How to Build a Language
An Esperanto-favorable essay by Donald J. Harlow.
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Essays on Language Design
Several meaty essays by Rick Morneau.
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Le lingue artificiali dal Seicento a oggi
Article on the history of constructed languages, by Claudio Gnoli (in Italian)
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How to Create a Language
The how and why of language creation, by Pablo David Flores
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International Auxiliary Languages
Much general information on IAL's
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Language Construction Kit
Many ideas on language creation, also em português.
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Langmaker.com
Many resources on language creation, site by Jeffrey Henning.
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Optimal Auxiliary Language Guidelines
Article by Richard K. Harrison on IAL design choices.
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SF Xenolinguistics
humorous article by Justin B. Rye on alien languages.
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Yahoo Group : auxlang
Mailing list signup page.
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Yahoo Group : conlang
Mailing list signup page.
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