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The Klingon Hamlet published, 2000.
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Edward Sapir dies, 1939.
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A main-belt asteroid is discovered by Finnish astronomer Y. Vaisala and is designated "1462 Zamenhof" in 1938.
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Dr. James Cooke Brown, creator of Loglan, died, 2000
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James Ruggles publishes his Universal Language book, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1829 (http://bit.ly/8Z1n9K).
Ruggles is arguably the first person to develop a language which mixed the categorizing of knowledge typified by Wilkins and the streamlining of language epitomized by Esperanto. Johann Schleyer's Volapük, which most see as the first language of this type, would not appear until 1880. The Ohioan Ruggles beat Schleyer by over fifty years! However, Volapük would gain much wider notice than the Universal Language, and Ruggles would become one of the more obscure figures in conlanging. Feb 14Feast day of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, creators of Cyrillic alphabet (Roman Catholic Calendar)
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Death of St. Mesrop Mashtots, inventor of Armenian Alphabet, 440 CE
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Sudre demonstrates Solresol publicly to blindfolded students in order to demonstrate its usefulness for blind students, 1835.
Quoted in Limits of Language by Mikael Parkvall. Feb 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 |