Meanings
plural jokelangs
- A joke language; an absurd constructed language created to amuse others.
Hrmitt, my 3rd conlang, as I've said on multiple occasions, started out as a jokelang.
2024 October 9, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@qfbox.info>, “Re: The main purpose of a conlang? (was: Let's quickly follow the construction of the Final Human Language)”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu1 more example
Hee hee. My brother and I made up a little jokelang with pizza toppings to describe methods of murder, made up after watching some gangster movie where they had some kind of code, so that it sounded like they were talking about one thing while they were actually planning a hit.
2002 February 26, Nik Taylor <fortytwo@gdn.net>, “Re: halú”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu
Origin
Syllabic abbreviation of joke language. By surface analysis, joke + -lang.
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jokelang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jokelang
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