artlanger

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noun

One who creates artlangs.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounartlanger (plural artlangers)

plural artlangers

  1. One who creates artlangs.

    2001 February 19, Hessu, “a few questions about Esperanto”, sci.lang, Usenet, The biggest mistakes conlangers or artlangers do, is assume that learners of their IAL has same backround (languages, culture, religion and education) than themselves.

    2 more examples

    There are also Idists and Interlingua-ists (the IALA kind) around, as well as conlangers and artlangers of all sorts... not to mention the Lojbanists.

    2001 July 28, George Partlow, “Least Favorite "Standard" Opera”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet)

    You're right that it's not the primary concern of the artlanger, but you might be surprised to learn that many artlangers have considered what their conlangs sound like to the extent of making recordings of texts and learning to speak others' conlangs.

    2007 May 23, Padraic Brown, “Where to speak ...”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet)

Origin

  1. Englishartistic languagesyl. abbr.
  2. Englishartlang
  3. Englishartlanger

From artlang + -er.

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APA

artlanger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artlanger

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “artlanger,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/artlanger.

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