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This list of constructed languages is in alphabetical order, and divided into auxiliary, engineered, and artistic (including fictional) languages, and their respective subgenres. Image File history File links Merge-arrows. ... A constructed or artificial language — known colloquially as a conlang — is a language whose phonology, grammar, and/or vocabulary have been devised by an individual or group, instead of having naturally evolved as part of a culture. ... An international auxiliary language (sometimes abbreviated as IAL or auxlang) is a language used (or to be used in the future) for communication between people from different nations who do not share a common native language. ... It has been suggested that Vorlin be merged into this article or section. ... An artistic language (or artlang) is a constructed language (conlang) designed for aethestic pleasure. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Auxiliary languages

Spoken (major)

The following are languages that have generated significant followings, or which have been of significance in the history of auxiliary languages.

Volapük is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. ... Johann Martin Schleyer Johann Martin Schleyer (July 18, 1831 - August 16, 1912), German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. ... This article is about the language. ... Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was a Polish eye doctor, philologist, and the virtual inventor of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed languages designed for international communication among speakers of all languages. ... Native Esperanto speakers (in Esperanto denaskuloj) come to be in families in which Esperanto (and usually other languages) is spoken. ... Idiom Neutral is an international auxiliary language, published in 1902 by the International Academy of the Universal Language (Akademi Internasional de Lingu Universal) under the leadership of Waldemar Rosenberger, a St. ... Waldemar Rosenberger, from Saint Petersburg, Russia, was a director of the Volapük Academy. ... Latino sine flexione (Latin without inflections) is an auxiliary language invented by the mathematician Giuseppe Peano in 1903. ... Giuseppe Peano Giuseppe Peano (August 27, 1858 – April 20, 1932) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher best known for his contributions to set theory. ... Ido (pronounced ) is a constructed language created with the goal of becoming a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds as a language easier to learn than ethnic languages. ... The language Occidental, later Interlingue, is a planned language created by the Baltogerman naval officer and teacher Edgar de Wahl and published in 1922. ... Edgar de Wahl (or von Wahl), the creator of Interlingue, was born in Olwiopol, Russia (now Pervomaysk, Ukraine) on August 11, 1867 (by the Julian calendar, August 23 on the Gregorian calendar). ... Novial [nov- (new) + IAL, International Auxiliary Language] is a constructed international auxiliary language (IAL) intended to facilitate international communication and friendship, without displacing anyones native language. ... Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English language. ... Glosa is an international auxiliary language (auxlang), that was developed by Lancelot Hogben (as Interglossa, GB, 1943), Ronald Clark and Wendy Ashby (GB, 1972-1992). ... Lancelot Thomas Hogben (9 December 1895- 22 August 1975) was a versatile English zoologist and geneticist. ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ... The International Auxiliary Language Association that existed from 1924 to 1954 was a notable proponent of international auxiliary languages. ...

Spoken (minor)

There have been literally hundreds of proposals for auxiliary languages, and more continue to be created. The following are languages with some notability, either historically or because of unusual characteristics.

Adjuvilo was a language created by Claudius Colas (under the pseudonym of Profesoro V. Esperema) in 1908. ... Afrihili is a constructed language designed in 1970 by K. A. Kumi Attobrah to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa. ... Babm (pronounced: ) is an international auxiliary language created by the Japanese philosopher Rikichi [Fuishiki] Okamoto (1885–1963). ... Communicationssprache is an international auxiliary language, created in 1839 by Joseph Schipfer (1761-1843). ... Esperanto II was a reform of Esperanto proposed by René de Saussure in 1937, the last of a long series of such proposals beginning with his 1907 reform proposal Antido. ... It has been suggested that Baza (language) be merged into this article or section. ... Europanto is a constructed language, a linguistic jest with a hodge-podge vocabulary from many European languages. ... Diego Marani is an Italian translator and newspaper columnist. ... Kotava is a language built on principles of cultural neutrality. ... Lingua Franca Nova is an auxiliary constructed language created by Dr. C. George Boeree of Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania. ... C. George Boeree (born January 15, 1952 in the Netherlands) is a professor of psychology at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. ... Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in , in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Pham Xuan Thai. ... Mondial was a international auxiliary language created by Dr. Helge Heimer, a Swede, in the 1940s. ... Mundolinco is a constructed language created by the Dutch author J. Braakman in 1888. ... It has been suggested that Baza (language) be merged into this article or section. ... Neo is an international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in 1961. ... The Nuwaubic alphabet is incorporated into this album cover from the Lost Children of Babylon Nuwaubic is a constructed language and alphabet used by the Nuwaubian followers of Dwight York. ... Malachi York Malachi Z. York(Dwight D. York) (born June 26, 1945 or 1935[1]) is an author and musician and the founder of various religious and black nationalist groups collectively referred to as Nuwaubianism. ... This article has been translated, and needs attention from someone approaching dual fluency. ... Solresol is an artificial language, devised by a Frenchman, Jean François Sudre, beginning in 1817. ... Sona is an international auxiliary language created by Kenneth Searight and described in a book he published in 1935. ... Kenneth Searight (born Arthur Kenneth Searight) (December, 1883 - 1957) was the creator of the international auxiliary language Sona. ... Spokil is a constructed language, created by the Frenchman Adolphe Nicolas. ... Toki Pona is a constructed language first published online in mid-2001. ... Sonja Elen Kisa (born 1978) is a professional translator (English, French and Esperanto) who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Universalglot, a posteriori universal language, published Tentative dune langue universelle, Enseignement, grammaire, vocabulaire, in 1868 by the French linguist Jean Pirro Categories: | ... Jean Pirro (1831-1886) was a French linguist who in 1868 invented the universal language Universalglot. ...

Controlled languages

Controlled languages are natural languages that have in some way been altered to make them simpler, easier to use, or more acceptable to those who do not speak the original language well. Most of these have been based on English.

• Basic English
• Globish
• Special English
• Plain English
• Simplified English
• E-Prime

Look up Appendix:Basic English word list in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Globish is a portmanteau neologism of the words Global and English. ... Special English is a simplified version of the English language first used on October 19, 1959 and presently employed by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America in daily broadcasts. ... Plain English focuses on being a flexible and efficient writing style that readers can understand in one reading. ... Disambiguation: see also simple English Simplified English is a controlled language originally developed for aerospace industry maintenance manuals. ... Dr. David Bourland coined the term E-Prime, short for English Prime, in the 1965 work A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime to refer to the English language modified by prohibiting the use of the verb to be. E-Prime arose from Alfred Korzybskis General Semantics and his...

Visual languages

Visual languages use symbols or movements in place of the spoken word.

• Blissymbols (zbl)
• Gestuno
• Signuno
• Earth Language

Blissymbolics or Blissymbols were conceived of as an ideographic writing system consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts. ... Gestuno or International Sign Language of the Deaf is a constructed sign language, which the World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf originally discussed in 1951. ... Signuno alphabet & numerals Signuno is signed Esperanto, derived from Gestuno roots and Esperanto morphology by an anonymous author. ... Earth Language is a visual language created by Yoshiko McFarland. ...

Engineered languages

Human-usable

• An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language by John Wilkins
• Arahau
• aUI
• Characteristica universalis
• Isotype
• Ithkuil
• Láadan (ldn)
• Loglan
• Lojban (jbo)
• Ro

The chief of the numerous works of John Wilkins was An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668), in which he expounds a new universal language for the use of philosophers. ... John Wilkins. ... aUI is a constructed language credited to John W. Weilgart. ... Universal characteristic redirects here. ... In graphic design and sociology, Isotype (possibly an acronym for International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a system of pictograms designed by the Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurath and the illustrator Gerd Arntz to communicate information in a simple, non-linguistic way. ... Example of Ithkuil script Ithkuil (Iţkuîl) is an extremely dense constructed human language created by American linguist John Quijada between 1978 and 2004. ... Láadan is a constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis for women, specifically to determine if Western natural languages were better suited for expressing the views of men than women. ... Loglan is a constructed language originally designed for linguistic research, particularly for investigating the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. ... Lojban (IPA ) is a constructed human language based on predicate logic. ... Ro is an a priori constructed language created by Rev. ...

Knowledge representation

• CycL
• The Distributed Language Translation project used a "binary-coded" version of Esperanto as a pivot language between the source language and its translation.
• KIF
• Lincos
• Loom
• RDF

The CycL language is a declarative language intended to represent knowledge similar to predicate calculus. ... Distributed Language Translation (DLT) was a project to develop a machine translation system for twelve European languages. ... This article is about the language. ... A pivot language is an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation. ... Knowledge Interchange Format was created to serve as a syntax for first order logic that is easy for computers to process. ... Lincos (an abbreviation of the Latin phrase lingua cosmica) is an artificial language first described in 1960 by Dr. Hans Freudenthal and described in his book LINCOS: Design of a Language for Cosmic Intercourse. ... Loomâ„¢ is a knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the Artificial Intelligence research group at the University of Southern Californias Information Sciences Institute. ... Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats. ...

Artistic languages

Languages used in fiction

Literature

• Adûnaic from J. R. R. Tolkien's works
• Aklo, Tsath-yo, and R'lyehian are ancient and obscure languages in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. Aklo is considered by some writers to be the written language of the Serpent People
• Amtorian, spoken in some cultures on the planet Venus in Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs and several sequels. Judged by critic Fredrik Ekman to have "a highly inventive morphology but a far less interesting syntax." (See [1].)
• Ancient Language in the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini (although this is considered to be a cipher of English by many)
• Angley, Unglish and Ingliss - three languages spoken respectively at Western Europe, North America and the Pacific in the 29th Century world of Poul Anderson's "Orion Shall Rise". All derived from present-day English, the three are mutually unintelligable, following 800 years of separate development after a 21st century nuclear war and the extensive absorption of words and grammatical forms from French in the first case, Russian, Chinese and Mongolian in the second, and Polynesian in the third.
• Anglo-French, in the alternate history world of the Lord Darcy stories by Randall Garrett - where England and France were permanently united into a single kingdom by Richard the Lionheart and their languagues consequently merged.
• asa'pili ("world language"), in bolo'bolo, by Swiss author P.M..
• Atreides battle, in Dune by Frank Herbert
• Babel-17, in Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
• Baronh, language of Abh in Seikai no Monsho (Crest of the Stars) and others, by Morioka Hiroyuki
• Black Speech - languague of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings
• Chakobsa, a language used in the Dune novels by Frank Herbert
• Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini appears to be written in a constructed language which is presumably the language of the alien civilization the book describes
• Common The language spoken in a wide variety of fantasy fiction, particularly Dungeons and Dragons.
• D'Haran The ancient, dead language of pre-Great War New World (D'Hara, Midlands, and Westland) in Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series.
• Drac, language of the alien species in Barry B. Longyear's Enemy Mine and The Enemy Papers
• Kad'k, the language of the Dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Earthsea books (by Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • Language of the Making - the basis of all magic, spoken by Dragons as their native tongue and learned with considerable effort by human mages
  • Hardic - linguistically descended from the above
  • Osskilian, and Kargish - a different family of languges, distantly related
• Elemeno, language of two sisters in Caucasia by Danzy Senna.
• Fremen, language of the native people of Arrakis, in Dune and other novels by Frank Herbert
• Galactic Standard Speech in Asimov' "Foundation series". Inhabitants of the planet Fomalhaut speak "an extreme dialect" of it.
• Galacticspeak from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Gobbledygook, the language of goblins, in the Harry Potter series. Noted speakers include Albus Dumbledore and Barty Crouch.
• Glide, created by Diana Reed Slattery, used by the Death Dancers of The Maze Game
• Ilythiiri, the language of drow elves in Forgotten Realms setting. [2]
• Kesh, in Ursula K. Le Guin's novel Always Coming Home
• Krakish, in Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathryn Lasky
• Láadan (ldn), in Suzette Haden Elgin's science fiction novel Native Tongue and sequels
• Lapine, in Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Lilliputian from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Further samples of the language are provided in T. H. White's Mistress Masham's Repose. In Gulliver's Travels, other fictional languages, spoken in other places Gulliver visits, are also presented, e.g. Brobdingnagian, Laputan, Balbinarbian and Houyhnhnm languages.
• Mando'a, created by Karen Traviss, used by the Mandalorians in the Star Wars Republic Commando novels Hard Contact and Triple Zero
• Mangani in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Marain, in The Culture novels of Iain M. Banks
• The languages of Middle-earth (most notably Sindarin (sjn), Quenya (qya) and Khuzdûl) by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly published in The Lord of the Rings, and posthumously discussed in The History of Middle-earth and other publications.
• Molvanian from Molvania, A Land Untouched By Modern Dentistry
• Nadsat slang, in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (fictional constructed language)
• Old Solar, in Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
• The Old Tongue from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
• Paluldonian in a Tarzan novel, Tarzan the Terrible, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Used by the inhabitants of the realm of Pal-ul-don in Africa, separated from the outside world by inpenetrable marshes.
• Parseltongue, the language of snakes, in the Harry Potter series. The ability of humans to speak it is considered a magic ability.
• Pennsylvanisch, from Michael Flynn's The Forest of Time
• Pravic and Iotic, in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Ptydepe, from Václav Havel's play The Memorandum
• Quintaglio from Robert J. Sawyer's Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy
• Qwghlmian from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle
• Reformed Egyptian in the Book of Mormon^[2]
• Rihannsu, spoken by the Rihannsu (Romulans) in the Star Trek novels of Diane Duane
• Stark (short for Star Common), a common interstellar English-based language from Orson Scott Card's Ender series
• Starsza Mowa from Andrzej Sapkowski's Hexer saga
• Troll language from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
• Utopian language, appearing in a poem by Petrus Gilles accompanying Thomas More's Utopia
• Whitmanite, spoken by members of a radical Anarchist-Pacifist cult of the same name in Robert Heinlein' The Puppet Masters. "Allucquere" is a female given name in Whitmanite.
• Zaum, poetic tongue elaborated by Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchonykh, and other Russian Futurists as a "transrational" and "most universal" language "of songs, incantations, and curses".
• Several languages spoken by Panurge in François Rabelais' Pantagruel (1532)
• The Time Machine featured an unnamed language for the Eloi people.
• Jack Womack's Dryco novels feature a future form of English with a modified grammar.

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The Inheritance Trilogy is a series of fantasy books written by author Christopher Paolini that has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide [1] [2]. As of 2006, two of these three books have been published: Eragon (2003) and Eldest (2005). ... Christopher Paolini (born November 17, 1983 in Southern California) is an American writer. ... Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author of the genres Golden Age. ... The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. ... Polynesian is an adjectival form which refers variously to: Polynesian pie Polynesian sauce, a food condiment available at Chick-fil-A the aboriginal inhabitants of Polynesia, and their: Polynesian culture Polynesian mythology Polynesian languages Category: ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ... Lord Darcy is a detective in an alternate history, created by Randall Garrett. ... Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 - December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. ... Richard I (September 8, 1157 – April 6, 1199) was King of England from 1189 to 1199. ... House Atreides is a fictional noble family from Frank Herberts Dune novels. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. ... Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Babel-17 Language is an artificial language first put forth in Samuel R. Delanys 1966 science-fiction novel Babel-17. ... Babel-17 is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir_Whorf Hypothesis (that language forms thought) is strongly influential. ... Samuel Ray Delany, Jr. ... The Ath Alphabet, used to write Baronh Baronh is an artificial language created by Japanese science fiction author Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars. ... Crest of the Stars (Japanese: 星界の紋章 Seikai no Monshō) is a trilogy of space opera (some parts could classify as military science fiction/military space opera) science fiction novels written by Morioka Hiroyuki. ... Morioka Hiroyuki (森岡浩之: 1962-) is a Japanese sci-fi novelist. ... The Black Speech is the fictional language of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings. ... Mount Doom and Barad-dûr in Mordor, as depicted in the Peter Jackson film. ... This article is about the novel. ... A fictional language of the fiercely religious, and militaristic Fremen people of Frank Herberts science fiction masterpiece Dune. ... Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... The Codex Seraphinianus is a book written and illustrated by the Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during the late 1970s. ... Luigi Serafini, was born in Rome in 1949. ... Common is a fictional language used in many science fiction and fantasy universes, most commonly books. ... The original Dungeons & Dragons set Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) published by Gary Gygax and David Arneson in January 1974. ... Drac can be: The word for dragon in Catalan and other languages, from Latin DRACO. See European dragon (particularly the section on Catalan dragons). ... Barry B. Longyear (born 1942) is an award-winning US science fiction author and screenwriter. ... Enemy Mine is a science fiction story by Barry B. Longyear. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Barry B. Longyear. ... Dwarfs in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, which they largely started out as a homage to, and dwarfs/dwarves in other fantasy novels. ... Dwarfs in Terry Pratchetts Discworld novels are similar to the Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, which they largely started out as a homage to, and dwarfs/dwarves in other fantasy novels. ... Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is a British fantasy and science fiction author, best known for his Discworld series. ... This article is about the novels. ... Cover to 1991 Bantam Books paperback edition of A Wizard of Earthsea, illustrated by John Jude Palencar Earthsea is a fictional realm created by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story The Word of Unbinding, published in 1964, but that became more famous in her novel A Wizard of... Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [ˌɜɹsÉ™lÉ™ ËŒkɹobɜɹ ləˈgWɪn] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. ... For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation). ... Hardic is a fictional language in the Earthsea series of short stories and novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. ... Caucasia, book cover Danzy Senna, (1970 - ) is an American novelist. ... Spoiler warning: The Fremen are a group of people in the Dune series of science fiction novels by Frank Herbert. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965. ... Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov (c. ... Hari Seldons holographic image, pictured on a paperback edition of Foundation, appears at various times in the First Foundations history, to guide it through the social and economic crises that befall it. ... For dialects of programming languages, see Programming language dialect. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Gobbledygook or gobbledegook (sometimes shortened to gobbledegoo) is an English term used to describe nonsensical language, sound that resembles language but has no meaning, or unintelligible encrypted text. ... For other uses, see Goblin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character within the Harry Potter series written by British author J. K. Rowling. ... Bartemius Barty Crouch Senior is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books. ... The Glide language, or simply Glide, is a highly-abstract visual constructed language created by Diana Reed Slattery and features prominently in her science fiction novel The Maze Game. ... This article refers to the fictional elven race from Dungeons & Dragons. ... It has been suggested that Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting be merged into this article or section. ... Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. ... Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [ˌɜɹsÉ™lÉ™ ËŒkɹobɜɹ ləˈgWɪn] (born October 21, 1929) is an American author. ... Always Coming Home is a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin published in 1985. ... Guardians of GaHoole is The New York Times bestselling book series written by Kathryn Lasky and illustrated by Richard Cowdrey. ... Kathryn Lasky is the American author of many critically acclaimed books, including several Dear America books, several Royal Diaries books, 1984 Newbery Honor winning Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Gahoole series. ... Láadan is a constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis for women, specifically to determine if Western natural languages were better suited for expressing the views of men than women. ... Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. ... Native Tongue is the first novel in Suzette Haden Elgins feminist science fiction series of the same name. ... Lapine is an artificial language constructed by Richard Adams and spoken by the fictional rabbits of his novel Watership Down. ... For other uses, see Watership Down (disambiguation). ... For other persons named Richard Adams, see Richard Adams (disambiguation). ... Lilliput and Blefuscu are two island nations that appear in the 1726 novel Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift. ... Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gullivers Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapiers Letters, The Battle of the Books, and... For other uses, see Gullivers Travels (disambiguation). ... Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 – January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. ... Mistress Mashams Repose (1946) is a novel by T. H. White, that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of lilliputians (From Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels). ... For other uses, see Gullivers Travels (disambiguation). ... Brobdingnagian means immense or enormous, which was named after the fictional country Brobdingnag in Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous. ... For other uses, see Laputa (disambiguation). ... Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swifts satiric Gullivers Travels. ... Mandalorian (Mando’a) is a fictional language spoken by the Mandalorians of Star Wars. ... Karen Traviss is a science fiction author and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the series. ... Mangani is a word from the fictional ape language in Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. ... For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). ... Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ... Marain is a constructed language used by the fictional Culture of Iain M. Banks . ... The Culture is a fictional anarchic, socialistic and utopian society created by the Scottish writer Iain Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions. ... Iain Menzies Banks (born on February 16, 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. ... The languages of Middle-earth are artificial languages invented by J. R. R. Tolkien and used in his books about Middle-earth, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. ... Sindarin is an artificial language (or conlang) developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Quenya is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves (the Quendi) the ones who speak. The first-found children of Ilúvatar, in the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Khuzdul is the fictional language of the Dwarves in J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, written with Cirth script. ... Tolkien redirects here. ... This article is about the novel. ... The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published from 1983-1996, that collect and analyse material relating to the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien. ... The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of academic research, studying different facets such as Tolkien as a writer of fantasy literature Tolkiens invented languages As A Writer Splintered Light: Logos And Language In Tolkiens World Verlyn Flieger (1st Edition 1983, Revised Edition 2002... Molvanîa is a fictional country set in Eastern Europe. ... Molvanîa is a fictional country set in Eastern Europe. ... Nadsat is a constructed slang dialect of English with many Russian influences invented by the linguist, novelist, and composer Anthony Burgess. ... Clockwork Orange redirects here. ... Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. ... Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... This article is about the Orwell novel. ... George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903[1][2] – 21 January 1950) who was an English writer and journalist well-noted as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture. ... Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel of a science fiction trilogy written by C. S. Lewis, sometimes referred to as the Space Trilogy or Ransom Trilogy. ... Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis. ... That Hideous Strength is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewiss theological science fiction Space Trilogy. ... Clive Staples Jack Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. ... The Old Tongue is a fictional language from Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time fantasy series. ... For other persons named Robert Jordan, see Robert Jordan (disambiguation). ... This article is about a fantasy series. ... For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). ... Tarzan the Terrible is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the eighth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. ... 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Comic books

• Bordurian in some of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, mostly in The Calculus Affair
• Interlac, the universal language spoken in the 30th century in the Legion of Super Heroes comics
• Kryptonese, or Kryptonian, the language of Superman's home planet of Krypton
• Syldavian, in some of Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, mostly in King Ottokar's Sceptre

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Movies and television

• Two kinds of alien language, termed "Alienese" and "Beta Crypt 3" appear quite frequently in background sight gags in Futurama.
• Ancient in the Stargate universe (i.e. Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) is the language of the Ancients, the builders of the Stargates; it is similar in pronunciation to Medieval Latin. The Athosians say prayers in Ancient.
• Atlantean created by Marc Okrand for the film Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• Cityspeak, a "mishmash of Japanese, Spanish, German," plus Hungarian and French, spoken on the street of overcrowded and multi-lingual Los Angeles of 2019 in Blade Runner. Similarly, used in many cyberpunk genre role playing games.
• The Divine Language is a language invented by director Luc Besson and actress Milla Jovovich for the 1997 movie The Fifth Element.
• Enchanta, in the Encantadia and Etheria television series in the Philippines, created by the head writer Suzette Doctolero
• Gelfling, spoken in Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal
• Goa'uld, the galactic lingua franca from Stargate SG-1, supposedly influenced Ancient Egyptian
• Huttese, language of both alien species and people in some of George Lucas's Star Wars films
• Irken, in Invader Zim, by Jhonen Vasquez, et al.
• Klingon (tlh), in the Star Trek movie and television series, created by Marc Okrand
• Krakozhian from The Terminal
• Ku, a fictional African language in the movie The Interpreter (2005)
• Linguacode, a universal language code sometimes used by the United Federation of Planets in the Star Trek television series.
• Marklar, spoken by the people of Marklar in a South Park episode.
• Minbari from Babylon 5, three related languages used together, corresponding to the areas of expertise of the three societal castes.
• Nadsat, the fictional language spoken by Alex and his friends in Clockwork Orange.
• Paku from Land of the Lost
• PortuGreek, the trade language featured in Waterworld
• The pseudo-Spanish/Greek/Arabic language of Republica, as used in the fictional Chanel 9 program within the British comedy sketch show the The Fast Show
• Quenya (qya) and Sindarin (sjn), the two Elven languages, spoken in the Lord of the Rings movies.
• Slovetzian, the fictional Slavic language of Slovetzia in the movie The Beautician and the Beast
• The Star Wars series features several fictional languages, see: Languages in Star Wars
• Tenctonese from the Alien Nation movie and television series, created by Van Ling and Kenneth Johnson
• Unas in Stargate SG-1, supposedly the first hosts of the Goa'uld
• Ulam, language spoken by the prehistoric humans in Anthony Burgess' movie Quest for Fire, created by melting roots of European languages.
• Vampire language used in the movie Blade.
• Vulcan language from Star Trek

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Invader Zim, trademarked as Invader ZIM, is an award-winning[1] American animated television series that aired on and was produced by Nickelodeon. ... (JCV) redirects here. ... The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ... Marc Okrand is the creator of the Klingon language. ... Krakozhia (Кракожия) is a fictional country created for the movie The Terminal starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones. ... This section contains a list of trivia items. ... Poster for The Interpreter. ... For other uses, see Interpretation (disambiguation). ... In the Star Trek television series, linguacode is a universal language code that is sometimes used by the United Federation of Planets in first contact situations. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 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Unnamed languages

• In the Janissaries series of science-fiction novels by Jerry Pournelle, the human natives of the planet Tran speak a language apparently derived from Mycenaean. A form of Latin is also spoken in an empire resembling ancient Rome's, but only by scholars.
• Riddley Walker, a 1980 novel by Russell Hoban, set in a post-apocalyptic future, is written entirely in a "devolved" form of English.
• Writer/director Luc Besson invented a Divine Language for Milla Jovovich's character "Leeloo" to speak in the film The Fifth Element.

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Music

• Gulevache: fictional Romance Language of the kingdom of Gulevandia on the bilingual opera Cardoso en Gulevandia by the comedy group Les Luthiers
• Kobaian, the language used by 70's French rock group Magma.
• Vonlenska, sometimes known as "Hopelandic", the language sung by Jón Þór Birgisson of the Icelandic band "Sigur Rós" on many of their songs.
• Loxian, featured on the Enya album Amarantine.
• Unnamed language by Yves Barbieux, used in his song "Sanomi" and performed by the Belgian group Urban Trad in the Eurovision Song contest in 2003.
• Mohelmot, a forbidden language used by The Residents on the album The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy.
• Unnamed language by Emmanuelle Orange, used in her song Pialoushka and performed by Montreal band Eden106.
• Unnamed language featured in the chorus of 2NU's 1991 track This is Ponderous.

The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ... Cardoso en Gulevandia (1991) Cardoso en Gulevandia, the eighth album of Les Luthiers, released in October, 1991. ... Les Luthiers Volumen 3 (1973) Les Luthiers is a comedy-musical group from Argentina, very popular also in several other Spanish speaking countries such as Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela. ... Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically-trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a vision of humanitys spiritual and ecological future that profoundly disturbed him. ... Vonlenska is a constructed language created by the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, in particular its lead singer Jón Þór Birgisson. ... Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson (born April 23, 1975) plays guitar and sings lead vocals for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. ... Sigur Rós ( ) is an Icelandic post-rock band with melodic, classical, experimental, and minimalist elements. ... Loxian is an artistic language and alphabet created by writer and lyricist Roma Ryan for Enyas 2005 album Amarantine. ... For the letter Ñ pronounced Enye, see Ñ. Enya (born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin[4] on 17 May 1961, Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland), sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan, is an Irish singer and songwriter. ... Amarantine is a single and album by Irish musician Enya. ... Sanomi was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, performed in an imaginary language by Urban Trad. ... Urban Trad is a Belgian folk music group, consisting of both Dutch and French speaking people. ... For other uses, see Resident. ... The Big Bubble by The Residents was what the band made after the fans waited 3 years for the next chapter of the Mole Trilogy: they got part 4 instead. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ...

Performance

• Grammelot (Cirquish) is a "gibberish" that goes back to the 16th century, used by performers, including those of Cirque du Soleil

Grammelot is a term for a style of language in satirical theatre, a gibberish with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements, used in association with mime and mimicry. ... Cirque du Soleil (French for Circus of the Sun) is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. ...

Games

• In the Halo series several alien languages are spoken by the Covenant.
• Al Bhed is a language used by the race of people known by the same name in the fictional world of Spira, in the games Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy X-2
• Alaani, Angram (old dwarvish), Asdharia (high elvish), Isdira (elvish), Rogolan (dwarvish), Rssahh (language of the 'lizard-people') and others in the role-playing game The Dark Eye
• Ancient Altmer, the old tongue of High Elves in The Elder Scrolls series.
• Ancient Hylian is the ancient language used by the first Hylians in The Legend of Zelda
• Animalese is one language spoken by the NPC characters of Animal Crossing. There is also the option that they can speak Bebebese.
• Bluddian from the video game Captain Blood by Cryo Interactive Entertainment
• Common, Darnassian, Draenei language, Dwarvish, Gnomish, Gutterspeak, Orcish, Taurahe, Thalassian, and Troll language, all from the Warcraft Universe
• D'ni, the language spoken by the subterranean D'ni people in Cyan Worlds' Myst series of computer games and novels
• Dino, the language made by the Dinosaur Planet in Star Fox Adventures
• Gargish, used in the Ultima computer game series, by the gargoyle race
• kiZombie, used by zombies in the Urban Dead MMORPG
• Mando'a, created by Karen Traviss, used by the Mandalorians in Star Wars: Republic Commando
• Or'zet, the rediscovered language of the Orks from the Shadowrun role playing game
• The unnamed language used by the Protoss in the StarCraft series
• Simlish from the computer game The Sims
• Sload, the language of the epynomous race in The Elder Scrolls series.
• Sperethiel, the language of the Elven nations of Tir Tairngire and Tir na Nog from the Shadowrun role playing game
• Tho Fan, in the Xbox game Jade Empire
• The unnamed language used by the Zerg race in the StarCraft series
• The unnamed language used by the Blobs when they sing, in the PlayStation Portable Game, "LocoRoco"
• The unnamed language used in the Klonoa series up to Klonoa Heroes: Legend of the Star Medal, and an expetation in Namco X Capcom, uses normal Japanese. It is known as Klonian or more recently Lunatean from Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil.
• Panzerese, a mix of German, Japanese, and Latin, used in the Panzer Dragoon series of games.
• Alltongue, magical language spoken in Arcadia in The Longest Journey series
• Vasudan, the language spoken by the Vasudan race in Descent: FreeSpace — The Great War and in the other titles in the FreeSpace series.

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Internet-based

• Teonaht, by Sally Caves
• Verdurian, one of several languages created for the fictional planet of Almea by Mark Rosenfelder

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Alternative languages

• Anglish
• Several North Slavic languages, inspired by the existence of West, East and South Slavic languages and the absence of a Northern branch

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Micronational languages

• Talossan, by R. Ben Madison

The Talossan language (El Glheþ Talossán) is a constructed language created by R. Ben Madison for the micronation he founded, the Kingdom of Talossa. ...

Personal languages

• Enochian by Edward Kelley
• Lingua Ignota, by Hildegard of Bingen

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Language games

• Binaliktad
• Gibberish
• Jeringonza
• Língua do Pê
• Louchebem
• Opish
• Pig Latin
• Rosarigasino
• Rövarspråket
• Sananmuunnos
• Šatrovački
• Starckdeutsch, Starckteutsch
• Tutnese
• Ubbi dubbi
• Verlan
• Vesre

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Toys

• Furbish

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References and notes

See also

• Alien language
• Artificial script
• Constructed language
• Engineered language
• International auxiliary language
• Language game
• List of languages
• Voynich Manuscript