Editing Naturalistic planned language

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A '''naturalistic planned language''' is an [[Constructed language#A posteriori language|''a posteriori'' constructed language]] specifically devised to reproduce the commonalities in morphology and vocabulary from a group of closely related languages, usually with the idea that such a language will be easier to use passively – in many cases, without prior study – by speakers of one or more languages in the group.

The term most commonly applies to planned languages predominantly based on the [[Romance languages]], best known of which are [[Interlingue]] (previously known as ''Occidental'') and [[Interlingua]]. Both were designed to serve as [[international auxiliary language]]s. However, there are also languages intended for speakers of a particular language family ([[zonal constructed languages]]), including [[Pan-Germanic language|Pan-Germanic]], [[Pan-Slavic language|Pan-Slavic]] and even Pan-[[Celtic languages|Celtic]] naturalistic planned languages.

Since the creation of such a language often includes shared idiosyncrasies from the source languages, active use seems to be generally more difficult to learn than for [[schematic planned language|schematic planned languages]], though because of grammatical simplification considerably easier than for ethnic languages of the same type.

== See also ==
* [[Language planning]]

[[Category:Constructed languages]]