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Balaibalan (
Turkish:
Bâleybelen) is a
constructed language that originates from
16th century Cairo. The language is also known as
Balibilen,
Bala-i-Balan and
Balaïbalan. The only known copy of the
Bâleybelen-dictionary is to be found in the
Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
Bâleybelen is an
a posteriori constructed language. The vocabulary is borrowed from
Persian,
Turkish and
Arabic, while the grammar is based on simplified Arabic. The language was written with the Ottoman variant of the
Arabic alphabet. The creator was the mystic
Mehmed Muhyî-i Gülşenî, born in
Edirne to family originally from
Shiraz. A member of the
Gülşenî sufi order in Cairo, Mehmed Muhyî-i was helped in the creation of Bâleybelen by several other Gülşenî figures.
In contrast to the best-known modern constructed languages, which are usually meant to be used by as many as possible as
international auxiliary languages, or
used in literature or film, Bâleybelen was probably designed as a holy or poetic language for religious reasons (like
Lingua Ignota and perhaps
Damin). Bâleybelen may also have been a secret language which was only known by an inner circle.
It was speculated that each time God gave humans a new revelation, a new language was used.
Abraham received his revelation in
Hebrew,
Jesus his in
Aramaic and
Muhammad his in
Arabic. Consequently, Bâleybelen might have been considered a sign that a new religious revelation was imminent.
Bâleybelen is the only well-documented early constructed language that isn't of European origin, and it's independent of the fashion for language construction that occurred in the
Renaissance.
The existence of Bâleybelen shows that constructed languages are neither a modern nor an exclusively western phenomenon. Constructed languages for religious purposes or use by secret societies have probably arisen many times all over the world, since the earliest times.
Research in non-European historical archives, analyses of shamanistic languages and other languages used for religious purposes, might lead to finding many more specimens than are known today.
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