artificial language

American  

noun

Linguistics.

1. an invented language, as opposed to a hereditary one, intended for a special use, as in international communication, a secret society, or computer programming.

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artificial language British  

noun

1. an invented language, esp one intended as an international medium of communication or for use with computers Compare natural language

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Etymology

Origin of artificial language

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain's key language processing centers.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024

Having founded the Unconventional Computing Lab in 2001 at the University of West England, Bristol, Adamatzky uses a definition of artificial language, which the American Psychological Association differentiates from natural language.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2022

For example, the lingua cosmica developed in 1960, the first artificial language for interstellar communication, is based on a mixture of logic, mathematics, and natural language syntax.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2020

More recently, the Sónar messages broadcast from a radar in Norway contained a unique artificial language designed for interstellar communication and short electronic music clips designed by an international collection of musicians.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2019

The beauty of his affection for his father and mother, and for his old nurse, breaks pleasantly through the artificial language of his letters, like a sweet spring in barren ground.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir