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Webster's, 1989:

scatter (skat'er), v.t. 1. to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.   2. to separate and drive off in various directions; disperse: to scatter a crowd. [...]   4. to separate and disperse; go in different directions. -n. [...>

tongue (tung), n., v. tongued, tonguing. -n. [...]   4. the human tongue as the organ of speech.   5. the faculty or power of speech: Have you lost your tongue?   6. speech or talk, esp. mere glib or empty talk.   7. manner or character of speech: a flattering tongue.   8. the language of a particular people, region or nation: the Hebrew tongue.   9. a dialect.  10. Often, tongues. a people or nation distinguished by its language. Is. 66:18; Rev. 5:9. [...]   33. to articulate or pronounce.   34. Archaic. to speak or utter. -v.i. [...>

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The Indices

A few of the many good collections of links to more or less "handmade" languages:

• The index of Scattered Tongues' sites
• Model Languages by JA Henning
• Constructed Languages by Richard Kennaway. Used to be the best index of conlangs on the net, but is now no longer updated.
• Constructed Human Languages by Chris Bogart
• The old index of Scattered Tongues' sites at webring.org

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The (Standard) Examples

The following sites showcase some of the better known conlangs. Some of them are even known by non-linguaholics...

• Esperanto: the most (in)famous of them all
• tlhIngan (Klingon): the Warrior Tongue of Star Trek
• Lojban and it's parent loglan: esperanto has many competitors, this is two of them
• Ardalambion: THE site on the languages of Middle Earth
• Láadan: a test of the Saphir-Whorf hypotesis, the world from a (western) female's perpective

A few somewhat unstandard cases is linked to below...

• conlang archives: humor (from the early days of the CONLANG mailing list)
• the awful german language - Mark Twain surely must have loved german

Here is a good example of online grammars of natural languages (that is, non-constructed)...

• A brief grammar of Euskara, the basque language (NEW!)

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The Resources

• Rick Harrison's Invisible Lighthouse: Lots of interesting stuff here... hard to categorize, really
• The Language Construction Kit
• The Sci.lang FAQ
• Wordnet, an online lexical reference system
• The conlang mailinglist archives, not to be missed
• A comparison of various ASCII-IPA schemes
• More about the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet
• SC's own resource-page: A cheat-sheet to the the quintessential CONLANG mailing list, and the humble webring graphics
• Other resources

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Conlanging in the Press

Conlanging isn't mentioned much outside our circles, but it does happen...

• Slashdot: Common (Internet-Based) Language? (2000-04-29)
  Mostly for auxlangers, this 'un.

The Webring

A webring is a way to connect sites that beats the old "20K list of links",
which the wired conlang community IMHO is so hampered with. Keeping such a list up to date can be a nightmare!

The ring works around this problem by keeping the 20K list in one place (www.webring.org), thus, only one place needs to be updated. The sites on the ring is connected via a piece of common HTML-code. By clicking on any of the links, a command is sent to the webring script that responds by sending one address of the list to your browser, which then takes you to that address.

For this to work, the server at webring must be up and running, which is not always the case, of course, but that's a side-effect I think we all can live with!

If you wish to join this ring, SC, go to the sign-up page now. If you have any questions, pop by webring.org and read the FAQ there, or ask me.

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