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A phrase in the original version of Ithkuil, rendered in native script. Romanization: (unicode:Oumpeá äx’ääļuktëx.) Translation: "On the contrary, I think it may turn out that this rugged mountain range trails off at some point." Ithkuil is a constructed language created by John Quijada,〔Joshua Foer, ("John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented" ), ''The New Yorker'', Dec. 24, 2012.〕 designed to express deeper levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and clearly, particularly with regard to human categorization. Ithkuil is notable for its grammatical complexity and extensive phoneme inventory. The name "Ithkuil" is an anglicized form of ''Iţkuîl'', which in the original form roughly means "hypothetical representation of a language".〔(''A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language'' – Introduction )〕 Ithkuil is presented as a cross between an a priori ''philosophical'' and a ''logical'' language. It strives to minimize the ambiguities and semantic vagueness found in natural human languages.〔(''A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language'' )〕 The many examples from the original grammar book〔 show that a message, like a meaningful phrase or a sentence, can usually be expressed in Ithkuil with fewer sounds, or lexically distinct speech-elements, than in natural human languages. Quijada deems his creation too complex and strictly regular a language to have developed naturally, but nonetheless a language suited to human conversation. No person, including Quijada, is known to be able to speak Ithkuil fluently. In 2004〔—and again in 2009〔(Ithkuil and its philosophical design ) (Russian) by Mikhail Gertelman, Kompyuterra (17(781)2009 p 12)〕 with its offshoot Ilaksh—Ithkuil was featured in the Russian-language popular science and IT magazine ''Computerra''. In 2008, it won the Smiley Award.〔(The 2008 Smiley Award Winner: Ithkuil )〕 The second "definitive (or 'official')" revision is a major revision that was released on 15 July 2011 and is also named Ithkuil out of convenience and continuity. A sizeable portion of this article deals with the original version of Ithkuil released in 2004, but it is indicated which sections deal with which version of Ithkuil. ==Outline== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ithkuil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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