ARG

Meet the Ayola Research Group

The origin of the Ayola Research Group goes back to 1995 when Dr. Richard W. Stimets hired his first research assistants to develop a new constructed language. Since then, the ARG has been the home of many people from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds such as Haitian, Indian, Dominican, American, Albanian, etc. Their background in languages along with their interest brought them together to work towards creating Ayola.

Currently, the Ayola Research Group is comprised of Dr. Richard W. Stimets and a small group of student researchers led by him. They are working together on the new Ayola-English and English-Ayola dictionary as well as the final improvements of the language. Here are some photos of the ARG working on the dictionary in 2004.


When developing vocabulary we begin by writing a word's equivalents in different languages.
The Ayola Research Group in April 2004

Dr. Stimets proposes two different Ayola words for the English word 'class'.

Some words have many meanings in English.

Some words are serious.

And some are funny!

The Ayola Research Group in April 2004

A new team has since come on board. Here is a group photo taken in May, 2009: