Conlanger

Quick meaning: Conlanger is a noun meaning Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs).

Meaning

Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs).

Example Sentences

No conlanger could hope to create a language with the depth and richness of a natural language.

The goal of a conlanger, a language creator, is to realize a linguistic system that′s both unique and authentic—something that doesn't exist anywhere on Earth, but which a linguist wouldn′t be surprised to find in the wild.

The split was between two groups. The first was composed of people interested in quietly developing and discussing the languages they crafted for science-fictional worlds, what-if-a-language-did-this playfulness, or Tolkienesque fun (the true conlangers).

The fact that the Internet has given visible shape to communities of invented language proponents through web sites and chat rooms for enthusiastic conlangers (‘language constructors’) has probably done little to dispel its reputation as a somewhat unusual and, to all intents and purposes, intangible undertaking.

Word Forms

• conlangers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auxlanger, artlanger, construer, colinguist, languist, concoctor.

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