fictlang

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/ˈfɪktˌlæŋ/

noun

A fictional language; a constructed language originally created for a fictional setting.

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Meanings

nounfictlang (plural fictlangs)

plural fictlangs

  1. A fictional language; a constructed language originally created for a fictional setting.

    Suzette Haden Elgin's La`adan fictlang has an evidential for facts revealed to the speaker in a dream.

    2005 May 26, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@yahoo.com>, “Re: THEORY: Are commands to believe infelicitous?”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

Origin

Syllabic abbreviation of fictional language. By surface analysis, suffixed with -lang.

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APA

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

MLA

“fictlang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fictlang. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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

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