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Taneraic
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Taneraic (the English cognate coined by its author for tanerai, as it is called in its own language) is one of many constructed languages. A private language, or langue close, invented by Javant Biarujia in 1968, the year he turned thirteen. Taneraic began as a dictionary code in Biarujia's mathematics class in first year high school in Victoria, Australia, but by the time he started his diary (the reason for Taneraic's creation) at age fifteen, in 1970, the code had developed very "un-code-like" characteristics, such as case inflexion, a grammar, morphology, syntax, and a lexicon based on the original dictionary code (hence the lack of any vocabulary connection to natural languages). In Taneraic, the simplest morphological structure is the radical, a root standing alone. Their use, usually nouns, is determined by the context. To make a modifier out of a radical, make it end in i. Geof Huth wrote that "Taneraic is a beautifully systematic language built not - as most planned languages are - on the roots of other languages, but out of the thin air of the imagination" . Poet Charles Bernstein discussed taneraic in terms of poetics: "No more a poet of the Americas than Bunting or MacDiarmid, Javant Biarujia, an Australian poet, has embarked on the most systematically and literally ideolectical poetry of which I am aware . To date, the only other person to have communicated in Taneraic (with the author) is American poet and linguist Michael Helsem. Biarujia plans to publish an English-Taneraic dictionary, which he has been working on since 1988, in 2008, to mark his langue close's fortieth anniversary. The dictionary's publication will complete the " exteriorisation" of what started as a very private affair, in what Jung called "proceeding from the dream outward". 
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