relex
nounEtymology Clipping of relexification.
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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.
- Most of the artlangs I've seen certainly are not relexes, or anything close.1998 November 5, David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>, “Re: LUNATIC again”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Broadly A programming language that differs from another only by the names of keywords, functions, etc.
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- cipher