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- noun Someone who creates
constructed languages (conlangs ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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I had no idea that constructed languages are called conlangs, and a person who creates them is a conlanger.
A Game of Thrones gets a constructed language : Chronicles Network: Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010
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Starostin was unfazed and he set to work to create a hybrid language, more like a conlanger than a comparative linguist.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Starostin was unfazed and he set to work to create a hybrid language, more like a conlanger than a comparative linguist.
The Tower of Babel 2007
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Of course, even "real" languages are products of invention - for example, my dictionary doesn't have the world "conlanger."
NYT > Home Page By NOAM COHEN 2011
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Dothraki was created by David J. Peterson, a 30-year-old "conlanger," a person who constructs new languages.
NYT > Home Page By NOAM COHEN 2011
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Some people build model railroads or re-enact Civil War battles; Mr. Peterson, a 30-year-old who studied linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, is a "conlanger," a person who constructs new languages.
NYT > Global Home By AMY CHOZICK 2011
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