conlang

plural conlangs

1. alternativecolloquialhuman sciencesAlternative form of constructed language (“a human language consciously devised by an individual or a small group, as opposed to having naturally evolved as a natural language”)First known use 1990s

   The Klingon language is a conlang created for use in the Star Trek franchise.

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   Now for the more important issues - which affect other conlangs' designs as much as Loglan/Lojban's.

   1992 April 4, Logical Language Group, “rationale for Lojban's short allomorphs (rafsi); conlang implications”, in lojban

   You might be familiar with more a priori conlangs than you think: The Klingon language from the television series "Star Trek," the Na’vi language from the movie "Avatar," and the Dothraki language from the television series "Game of Thrones" are all examples of a priori languages. […] Others both inside and outside the academic community feel that conlanging veers too easily into the realm of cultural exploitation (viewers of “Game of Thrones” will remember how the portrayal of the Dothraki race on the show, including the conlang the Dothraki people speak, seemed to many like a portrayal of Native Americans as “barbaric” and “exotic”).

   2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan, Austin, Tex.: Texas Student Media, University of Texas at Austin, published 8 April 2013, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020

   What is considered to be the first recorded conlang was Lingua Ignota, created by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century German churchwoman and polymath.

   2015, Douglas Ball, “Constructed languages”, in Rodney H. Jones, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 146

   Synonyms: clong, cloŋ

present singular third person conlangs · participle present conlanging · participle past conlanged · past conlanged

1. ambitransitivehuman sciencesTo create or work on a conlang (constructed language).

   I've been conlanging since I was nine years old.

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   Brithenig was conlanged with the purpose of looking how Welsh might have developed if it were a Romance language.