Meanings
conlanging1
- gerunduncountablegerund of conlang: the creation of conlangs (constructed languages).
The personalization of language allowed by conlanging is what draws many conlangers to the hobby.
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 20203 more examples
The field, then, is open to re-examination, and the recent phenomenon of conlanging is evidence that the art of inventing languages is neither lunatic nor infantile.
2000, Sarah L. Higley, “Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet”, in M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, volume 3, number 1, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2005Should that be a factor in determining whether conlanging is an art form or some other kind of practice?
2015 September 29, David J. Peterson, The Art of Language Invention, →ISBN, page 260This period also saw the further development of conlanging as an art form, most notably by JRR Tolkien, setting the stage for the current era of conlanging, discussed in Section 2.5, where conlanging's status as art and even as a profession has been solidified.
2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors, Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy, →ISBN, page 6
conlanging2
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of conlang
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