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I believe the answer is:

esperanto

(Other definitions for esperanto that I've seen before include "special speech" , "words, set up artificially?" , "contrived language" , "Language invented by Dr Zamenhof" , "artificial tongue" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.
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