Happy New Year to all,
I have been trying to find a taxonomy of languages. This arose from
a discussion on reddit in which a linguist argues that "computer
languages" are not languages, but are rather encodings. The
discussion continues by observing that languages are spoken, are not
created and that "there is no such thing as a logic based language".
He/she also opposes my view that computer languages are used for
speech acts.
I continued my investigation and found that Ogden's Basic English is
considered an IAL (International Auxiliary Language), a language
designed to facilitate communication between countries or language
groups. I was unsuccessful in finding a taxonomy of languages that
includes IAL's or a formal definition of what constitutes a
language.
What I did find is an interesting drawing from the thesis of PHILIP LEE
FISHER-OGDEN, B.S. (University
of California, San Diego) 2008. The thesis draws on the W3C corpus
of descriptions and bio's of experts within W3C such that that
content can be access via a DBLP (Digital Bibliography and Library
Project) search engine.
""Figure 1. Taxonomy
Concept Map (from [11])
Two queries
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1. Do you know of a taxonomy of language types?
2. What are your thoughts on the concept map?
John Bottoms
FirstStar Systems
Concord, MA USA
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