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  • noun Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs).

Etymologies

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From conlang +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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