Fictional Language - Examples

Examples

Examples include:

  • J. R. R. Tolkien's languages of Middle-earth
  • George Orwell's Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Václav Havel's Ptydepe in The Memorandum
  • Suzette Haden Elgin's engineered secret language Láadan, with its covert gestural form, which is central to the Native Tongue series of novels
  • Iain M. Banks' Marain in his Culture series
  • Ursula K. Le Guin's Pravic in The Dispossessed
  • Richard Adams's Lapine language in Watership Down
  • Richard A. Watson's D'ni in the Myst franchise
  • Robert Jordan's Old Tongue in The Wheel of Time
  • Enchanta of the Encantadia Saga
  • The Simlish in The Sims series of video games
  • The Klingon language in Star Trek
  • The Giak language in the Lone Wolf (gamebooks) series of interactive fantasy fiction by Joe Dever
  • The Mandalorian language from Star Wars
  • Dothraki in the TV series Game of Thrones
  • The Na'vi language in Avatar
  • The backwards Japanese/Latin used in Ico and Shadow of the Colossus
  • Baronh in Crest of the Stars Series
  • Ku in The Interpreter
  • Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange
  • Galach in Frank Herbert's Dune series
  • Mangani (Great Ape Language) in the Tarzan series by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Old Solar language or Hlab-Eribol-ef-Cordi in The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis
  • Panzerese (mixture of Russian, Greek and Latin) in Panzer Dragoon
  • Parseltongue (Snake Language) in the Harry Potter
  • Marsaudian in Brian Wood's Marsaud & Me
  • Gnommish in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl (series)
  • The Dragon language in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim by Bethesda Softworks

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