language creation
Constructing new speech
Language creation is the deliberate construction of a new language, whether for fiction, international communication, or linguistic experiment.
Tolkien created Elvish languages for Middle-earth; Zamenhof invented Esperanto to bridge nations.
Constructed languages range from fully developed systems with grammar and vocabulary to sketches serving a single artistic purpose.
Also called conlanging, with practitioners known as conlangers.
- EsperantoInvented auxiliary tongue
- conlangArtificially created language system
- secret codeEncrypted communication system
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- syntaxRules for arranging words
worldbuilding · creoles · proto-languages · pidgins · phonetics · sound system · derivation · inflection · verb conjugation · orthography · writing system · script · Klingon · lexicon · fictional · from scratch · vocabulary · alphabet
language creationlanguage preservation
Maintaining endangered native tongues
language analysis · language learning · language acquisition