Viossa

Viossa (IPA: /vi.ˈoʊ.sa/, /vi.ˈɒ.sa/) is an experimental, community-created, artificial language, created in 2014 by the digital community of r/conlangs in Reddit, who wanted to simulate a pidgin. The language is created to examine the contact between languages and is classified as an engineered language.

Linguist Adam Aleksic described Viossa as an “artificially created pidgin language” due to its similarity to natural pidgin languages. From the beginning, its development has been driven exclusively by conversations between members of its community, where only three mandatory rules are followed: Direct translations of Viossa are forbidden except for academic or artistic reasons (therefore one must learn the language via total immersion); if one is understood, they are using the language correctly; and there are no standards for the grammar, orthography, semantics or phonetics of the language.

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