{"id":2555,"date":"2016-09-13T10:51:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:50:05","slug":"examples-invented-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawlinguists.com\/fr\/examples-invented-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Examples of invented languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inventing a language from scratch might seem like an odd way to spend your time, but there are good reasons to do it. People create languages for scientific, cultural and artistic purposes: to test theories about how the brain works, to help people communicate, to \u2018improve\u2019 existing languages, or because they just need a new language for a book they\u2019re writing.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of the best examples of invented languages:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Chanel 9-speak from The Fast Show. \u201cScorchio!\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Elvish. Matthew Randall and others pointed out that there are two Elvish tongues, Sindarin and Quenya. We could have done a top 10 just of languages invented by JRR Tolkien.<\/li>\n
  3. Klingon (above). \u201cObviously,\u201d said Tom Doran. My colleague Tom Peck went to the UK\u2019s first Klingon wedding…<\/li>\n
  4. Sign language. Nominated by Matt Charles, who also mentioned Makaton, a signs and symbols language for people with no speech or whose speech is unclear about which I did not know.<\/li>\n
  5. Esperanto \u201cis numeron unu I assume\u201d, said Atticus Beaterband. Well, numeron kvin, anyway.<\/li>\n
  6. Newspeak. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Goodthink by John Ruddy and Citizen Sane. Fittingly, Jeremy Corbyn launched his digital manifesto at a place called Newspeak House in Shoreditch.<\/li>\n
  7. Parseltongue. The language of serpents in J.K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter books. Thanks to Citizen Sane, Tom Doran and Chi the Cynic.<\/li>\n
  8. Emoji. Smiley face, Ian Douglas.<\/li>\n
  9. Critical Theory. Smiley face, Alan Benzie.<\/li>\n
  10. Unwinese. \u201cCould I humblyfy in nominatory the magnificolly Stanley Unwin for his talkywrite the Toppy Tendency of langyspeak that have in the inventybole?\u201d asks Paulty Horganvole.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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