relex

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Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A programming language that differs from another only by the names of keywords, functions, etc.

Similar words

external relexification romlang altlang substitution worldlang conscript artlang reflex reconstructed language

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