List of language inventors
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A conlanger (pron.: /ˈkɒnlæŋər/) is a person who invents conlangs (constructed languages).
Professional conlangers [edit]
Conlangers who have been hired to create languages.
Published international-auxiliary conlangers [edit]
"Auxlangers" are conlangers who have created languages intended for international communication.
- Louis de Beaufront
- Léon Bollack
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat
- Alexander Gode
- Otto Jespersen
- Jackson Moore
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer
- Kenneth Searight
- Edgar de Wahl
- Dr. L. L. Zamenhof
Published fictional conlangers [edit]
Conlangers whose work has been published in books or other media that they created:
- Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down
- Hector Berlioz
- Anthony Burgess
- Samuel R. Delany
- Suzette Doctolero: Enchanta from the Encantadia Saga.
- Diane Duane
- Suzette Haden Elgin: Láadan, in the Native Tongue series
- Václav Havel
- Frank Herbert
- M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel
- Hergé
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Barry B. Longyear
- Morioka Hiroyuki
- George Orwell: Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz: in The Writing on the Wall
- J. R. R. Tolkien: more than twenty languages including Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul; see Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Karen Traviss: Mando'a in the Star Wars expanded universe
- Christian Vander
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Robert Jordan: The Old Tongue in The Wheel of Time
- Christopher Paolini: The Ancient Language in the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon and its sequels)
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