A catalogue of the more interesting VUE languages with explanatory comments by VFI scholars

1. Abcadefghan
   The language is often used in the preparation of papers on engineering, metallurgy and radiophonics. Catch-Hanger Fallcaster has translated Tulse Luper's 'Some Birds of the Northern Hemisphere' into Abcadefghan.
   Research is required to determine the extent to which Abcadefghan derives from or relates to Abecedarian.
   
   
2. Allow
   'Guller' is an Allow word for those whose attempts to fly had taken place over water. Musicus Fallantly worked on an Allow-Welsh choral work. According to either Ipson or Pulat Fallari, Allow is terse and impersonal, full of abbreviations and imperatives as though invented for use on a parade-ground, or at best, for the writing of Instruction-Manuals. .
   
   
3. Betelguese
   This is the language of unlimited vocabulary and rapidly changing grammer and syntax. A library of books written in Betelguese would probably resemble Borges' library of Babel. Betelguese is also the tenth brightest star in the sky and the fiftieth star in the book 'Fear of Drowing by Numbers' (it is given a different number in the film 'Drowning by Numbers').
   
   
4. Capistan
   This is a lazy, gentle language, spoken largely from the front of the mouth and requiring unusual amounts of salvia and an above average exposure of the tongue. It is thought Aptesia Fallarme is a leading authority on Capistan.
   
   
5. Cathaganian
   This language includes at least 15,000 specialist words associated with astro-physics, neurological functions and horticultural rarities.
   
   
6. Cathanay
   This has a vocabulary of at least 25,000 words.
   
   
7. Curdine
   This is a cursive language that deliberately fosters ambiguities and encourages punning. Tulse Luper has said that, in the larynx of the right man, Curdine would be a superlative language, an antidote to all the world's feathers. Tasida Fallaby mentions a mechanical form of Curdine. This is clearly a joke - or a mistake, or a pun of some kind - as Curdine is antipathetic to being spoken mechanically.
   
   
8. Entreé
   A 'starter' language. It lacks a word for 'wheel'.
   
   
9. Foreignester
   A bastard language self-consciously devised by musicians.
   
   
10. Hapaxlegomenia
    A version of Bardin's Catalogue of VUE Pornography is being translated into Hapaxlegomenia. For further details click here
    
    
11. Hartileas B.
    Invented by Constance Ortuist Fallaburr. No reference is made to Hartileas A or, for that matter, Hartileas C-Z.
    
    
12. Instantaneious Dekis
    A language better spoken with a beak than a mouth.
    
    
13. Mickle-ease
    See biography 74. It is said this language is full of alliteration and sudden turns of speed, in between which the speaker necessarily takes prolonged and exaggerated breaths. Waiting for the next syllable in Mickle-ease is like waiting for a small child to scream after a fall or the Fall.
    
    
14. O-Lev-Lit
    See biography 28. A primitive VUE language. It is believed this language has been overtaken by GCSE.
    
    
15. U-thalian
    This has 47 different words for water, each one describing, in less than three syllables, and under fourteen letters, its various states (for a list see biography 33). Thalia is one of the three graces, the Muse of comedy.
    
    
16. Untowards
    This is spoken with a Yorkshire accent by Edio Fallenby.