The story
Blend of Latin ludus (“play; game”) + a clipping of Latin lingua (“language”). The term was first introduced by Donald Laycock (1972).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ludling
Today it means: A linguistic system that alters the forms (but not their meanings) of a source language via simple phonological and/or morphological transformations, such as affixation, reduplication, truncation, phoneme substitution, syllable transposition, etc. Full definition →