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<p align="justify">This website presents a comprehensive grammar of <strong>Ithkuil</strong>,
an artificially constructed human language. To those readers familiar with the
history and art of fictional language construction Ithkuil falls into the category
of an <em>a priori</em> philosophical language. It is by no means intended to
function as a “natural” human language. Rather, Ithkuil exists as
an exercise in how human languages <em>could</em> function, not as human languages
<em>do</em> function. </p>
<p align="justify">While I enjoy the idea of inventing fictional languages which
mimic natural languages, à la Tolkien’s Elvish, Okrand’s
Klingon, and the unsung languages spoken by many a budding linguist’s
gnomes, gremlins, secret brotherhoods, extraterrestrials, parallel worlders
and lost Atlanteans, it is not enough for me to add simply another language
to the thousands that already exist or have existed. For me, the greater goal
is to attempt the creation of what human beings, left to their own devices,
would never create naturally, but rather only by conscious intellectual effort:
an idealized language whose aim is the highest possible degree of logic, efficiency,
detail, and accuracy in cognitive expression via spoken human language, while
minimizing the ambiguity, vagueness, illogic, redundancy, polysemy (multiple
meanings) and overall arbitrariness that is seemingly ubiquitous in natural
human language. Ithkuil represents the culmination of over twenty-five years
of personal effort toward creating such a language. </p>
<p align="justify">Beyond this home page, the site is divided into an Introduction
followed by 12 chapters, indicated by the links to the left or below. While
some familiarity with linguistic concepts and terminology will be helpful, it
is not required, as such concepts and terminology are explained within the text.</p>
<p align="center">— <em>John Quijada</em></p>
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