X-languages

The X-languages are experimental languages by Jörg Rhiemeier. They are called this way because they are designated by the letter "X" followed by a number. The "X" stands for "eXperimental language".

The X-languages are quite different from each other and do not form a unified family of any sort. They surely aren't cognate in the historical linguistic sense as, for example, Low Elvish and Macaronesian are cognate. None of the X-languages has a conculture attached, and none is intended to be naturalistic.

What I am not going to do is to propose any of the X-languages as an auxlang or anything like that. They are experimental and way too bizarre to be actually used (for example, I doubt that any human can parse an X-2 sentence which makes ample use of the language's stack-manipulation tricks in real time); and I am doing this (as all of my conlangs) just for fun .

I am also not going to say goodbye to naturalist artlanging. My main conlang project is still Albic. But there are some really crazy ideas in my head that fit neither there nor in any other naturalist language, and want to be let loose in experimental languages.

It is also very unlikely that any of these projects will ever reach a high level of development. My interest in these projects (and the knowledge that would be required to do them properly) is too limited to follow through on them.

List of X-languages

• X-1, a briefscript loglang (dormant)
• X-2, a stack-based language (abandoned)
• X-3, now named Quetch, a speedtalk-like langauage with a large phoneme inventory
• X-4, a speakable musical language (abandoned)
• X-5, an arithmographic language (dormant)