An Essay towards a Real Character

An Essay towards a Real Character
Spoken in:
Timeline/Universe:	international auxiliary language
Total speakers:	very few
Genealogical classification:	a priori philosophical language
Basic word order:	SVO
Morphological type:	agglutinating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	accusative
Created by:
John Wilkins	1668

An Essay towards a Real Character is the title of a book by John Wilkins in which the author lays out his philosophical language, the best-known effort of this kind.

This article is part of a series on Engineered languages. Arithmographic languages: Characteristica universalis Logical languages: AllNoun * Ithkuil * Loglan * Lojban * X-1 Philosophical languages: Alwato * An Essay towards a Real Character * Ars signorum * Ro * Toki Pona * Ygyde Others: Altllamiac * Briefscript * Pasetok * Speedtalk