Conlanger
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A conlanger is person who invents conlangs (constructed languages).
[edit] Professional Conlangers
Conlangers who have been hired to create languages.
- Marc Okrand - Klingon
- Rev. William Fulco - reconstructed rather than invented the Aramaic of Jesus
- Herman Miller
- Matt Pearson
[edit] Published International-Auxiliary Conlangers
"Auxlangers" are conlangers who have created languages intended for international communication.
- Louis de Beaufront
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat
- Alexander Gode
- Otto Jespersen
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer
- Kenneth Searight
- Edgar de Wahl
- Dr. L. L. Zamenhof
[edit] Published fictional conlangers
Conlangers whose work has been published in books or other media that they created:
- Richard Adams
- Anthony Burgess
- Samuel Delany
- Diane Duane
- Suzette Haden Elgin - Láadan, in the Native Tongue series
- Václav Havel
- Frank Herbert
- Hergé
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Barry B. Longyear
- Morioka Hiroyuki
- George Orwell - Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- J. R. R. Tolkien - Quenya and Sindarin, in Lord of the Rings
- Christian Vander
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Constructed languages (conlangs) | |
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| WikiPortal · WikiProject | |
| Conlang types | Artificial script · Artistic language (artlang) · Constructed language (conlang) · Engineered language (engelang) · Euroclone · Fictional language · International auxiliary language (IAL) · Language game · Logical language (loglang) · Musical language · Relexification · Universal language · Whistled language |
| Most notable conlangs | Arahau · Blissymbols · Elvish languages · Enochian · Esperanto · Ido · Ithkuil · Klingon · Láadan · Lingua Ignota · Loglan · Lojban · Nadsat · Newspeak · Solresol · Teonaht · Toki Pona · Verdurian · Volapük |
| Resources | CONLANG · Conlanger · Conlang XSAMPA · Ill Bethisad · Langmaker · Language Creation Conference · Language Construction Kit · Translation relay · Zompist.com · List of constructed languages |
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