relex

English

Etymology

Clipping of relexification.

Noun

relex (plural relexes)

  1. (conlanging) A conlang created by substituting new vocabulary into the grammar of an existing language.
    Lojban started as a relex of Loglan, but the languages' grammars have since diverged.
    • 1998 November 5, David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>, “Re: LUNATIC again”, in Conlang mailing list‎[1], via listserv.brown.edu:
      Most of the artlangs I've seen certainly are not relexes, or anything close.
  2. (programming, by extension) A programming language that differs from another only by the names of keywords, functions, etc.

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