List of language creators
A language creator, sometimes referred to as a conlanger (/ˈkɒnlæŋər/), is a person who invents constructed languages (or "conlangs").
Professional language creators
[edit]Individuals who have been hired to create languages.
- Victoria Fromkin - Paku (a.k.a. Pakuni)
- Paul Frommer - Na'vi, Barsoomian
- Madhan Karky - Kiliki
- Marc Okrand - Klingon, Vulcan, Atlantean
- Matt Pearson - Thhtmaa
- David J. Peterson - Dothraki, Valyrian, Kastithanu (Castithan), L'Irathi (Irathient), Indojisnen, Sondiv, Shiväisith, Lishepus, Trigedasleng, Noalath, Inha, Munja'kin
- Wolf Wikeley - Tho Fan
Published international-auxiliary language creators
[edit]Individuals who have created languages intended for international communication.
- Louis de Beaufront
- Léon Bollack
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat: Ido language
- George Boeree
- Alexander Gode
- Ján Herkeľ
- Lancelot Hogben
- Alex G. Igbineweka
- Otto Jespersen
- Francis Lodwick:[1] Common Writing
- Juraj Križanić
- Matija Majar
- Vojtěch Merunka
- Jackson Moore
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano: Latino sine flexione
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer: Volapük
- Kenneth Searight: Sona
- Jan van Steenbergen
- Edgar de Wahl: Interlingue
- John Wilkins:[1] unnamed universal language
- L. L. Zamenhof: Esperanto
Published fictional language creators
[edit]Language creators whose work has been published in books or other media that they created:
- Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down
- M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel
- Hector Berlioz
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and a prehistoric language in Quest for Fire.
- 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
- Hergé
- Robert Jordan: The Old Tongue in The Wheel of Time
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Barry B. Longyear
- George Orwell: Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Christopher Paolini: The Ancient Language in the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon and its sequels)
- 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
- Tad Williams: Higher Singing in Tailchaser's Song
- Gene Wolfe: Ascian in The Book of the New Sun
Other notable language creators
[edit]Language creators whose languages are neither international auxiliary languages nor part of popular media, but are nonetheless significant among enthusiasts, have amassed a notable amount of speakers, or do not fit in other categories:
- Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, a minimalist language which has gained a large following and several publications over the years since its creation in 2001.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Okrent, Arika (2009). In the land of invented languages : Esperanto rock stars, Klingon poets, Loglan lovers, and the mad dreamers who tried to build a perfect language (1st ed.). New York: Spiegel & Grau. ISBN 978-0-385-52788-0. OCLC 321034148.