Zaum
| Zaum | |
|---|---|
Khlebnikov's book Zangezi (1922) | |
| Created by | Aleksei Kruchenykh |
| Date | 1910s |
| Setting and usage | Poetic experimentation |
| Purpose | |
| Cyrillic script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | qmz (private use) |
| IETF | art-x-zaum (private use) |
Zaum (Russian: за́умь, lit. 'transrational') are the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh. Zaum is a non-referential phonetic entity with its own ontology. The language consists of neologisms that mean nothing. Zaum is a language organized through phonetic analogy and rhythm. Zaum literature cannot contain any onomatopoeia or psychopathological states.