Balaibalan is a constructed language that originates from 16th century Cairo. The language is also known as Balibilen, Bala-i-Balan and Balaïbalan. The only known copy of the Bâleybelen-dictionary is to be found in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Bâleybelen is an a posteriori constructed language. The vocabulary is borrowed from Persian, Turkish and Arabic, while the grammar is based on simplified Arabic. The language was written with the Ottoman variant of the… (More on Balaibalan)