Artificial languages are
languages of a typically very limited size which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans. They are different from both
constructed languages and
formal languages in that they have
not been consciously devised by an individual or group but are the result of (distributed) conventionalisation processes, much like
natural languages. Opposed to the idea of a central
designer, the field of
artificial language evolution in which artificial languages are studied can be regarded as a sub-part of the more general
cultural evolution studies.