frankenlang

plural frankenlangs

1. A conlang that has components from numerous languages but is poorly put together.

   I'd heartily recommend it for frankenlang inclusion, tho!

   2004 September 9, Andreas Johansson <andjo@free.fr>, “Re: En något ogrannlaga fråga om svenska”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

   4 more examples

   [Disclaimer: I've never actually made a conlang this way yet -- this is just what I do with my *current* conlang by picking what I figure would sound like a good ancestor-lang root and "mutating" it -- so don't blame me if it produces a frankenlang :-P]

   2000 November 26, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.yi.org>, “Re: backwards conlanging”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

   My Summer Conlang 2016 is Olathe/Ulathi*, which uses material from a lot of sketches and half-baked conlanguettes. It may be a bit of a Frankenlang, but I hope it will absorb enough of those ideas that I can use it as my main toylang and reduce the total number of conlangs I start that never go anywhere.

   2016 June 12, Mia DeSanzo <gloriouswaffle@gmail.com>, “: Chat: 20 Questions to ask a Conlanger”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

   But there are many people who do violence to Tolkien's languages and cobble together their own frankenlangs from Quenya and Sindarin plus stuff from Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying handbooks and other sources that get in the way, such as the "Elvish" language of the "Grey Company"[.]

   2020 January 14, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@web.de>, “Re: Fantasy auxlangs (was: Help needed: French example words)”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

   Every time I see another Romance IAL or Spanish-French-Italian-frankenlang I cringe so hard.

   2024 May 16, u/ImplodingRain, “Which clichés or overused/trendy features are you tired of seeing in conlangs?”, in r/conlangs (Reddit post), archived from the original on 21 May 2026