Language in fiction

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two thirds of native speakers of English live in the United States. The...

The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingon in the fictional Star Trek universe. Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be "alien", it contains many peculiarities, such as Object Verb Subject (OVS) word order. The basic...

Mandarin ( or ), is a category of related Chinese dialect spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin language has more speakers than any other language. The "standard"...

Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix in which the...

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, most films were silent before the...

Nadsat is a constructed language based on English with many Russian influences invented by the linguist, novelist, and composer Anthony Burgess. It is a transliteration of the Russian suffix for 'teen'. Nadsat is a mode of speech used by various teen subcultures in...

Sindarin is an artificial language developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. In Tolkien's mythos, it was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth in the Third Age. It was the language of the Sindar, those Teleri which had been left behind on the Great Journey of...

Quenya is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves (the Quendi, "those who speak with voices" because when they first awoke they were the only creatures they knew who used words to speak), the first-born children of Ilúvatar, in the fantasy works of J. R. R....

In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Adûnaic ("language of the west") was the language of the Men of Númenor during the Second Age. Adûnaic derived from the closely related Bëorian and Hadorian dialects of Taliska, the language spoken by the first and third houses of...

Pravic is a fictional language used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Pravic is a fictional constructed language: in the book, it is said to have been constructed by a person named Farigv. Pravic is spoken on the planet...

The Old Tongue is a fictional language from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy series. It is depicted as a now-dead language, spoken only by scholars and certain nobles, but still plays a role in the plot of the books. The Old Tongue was spoken during and...

Lapine is an constructed language constructed by author Richard Adams for his 1978 novel Watership Down, where it is spoken by fictional rabbit characters. The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of a few dozen distinct words, and are chiefly used for the...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Common Eldarin is the primordial tongue of the Eldar, those Elves who left for Valinor. Common Eldarin split off from Primitive Quendian, the original language of all Quendi, or Elves, when the Eldar left...

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Primitive Quendian is the proto-language of the Quendi, or Elves, which they spoke soon after their Awakening. Primitive Quendian split into Common Eldarin and the many Avari languages. The Etymologies...

The D'ni language (pronounced ) was the language spoken by the D'ni, as presented in various games and novels of the Myst franchise. The language was created by Richard A. Watson. At the beginning of the Riven game, for instance, a native known as Cho will try to talk...

Marain is a constructed language used by the fictional Culture of Iain M. Banks. The Culture believes (or perhaps has proved, or else made true) the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that language affects society, and Marain was designed by the Culture's hyperintelligent Minds to...

Huttese is the fictional language spoken by the Hutt species in Star Wars. It was first heard spoken by the Rodian character Greedo in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It was created by sound designer Ben Burtt, and is closely based on the Quechua language of the Inca...

Baronh is an artificial language created by Japanese science fiction author Morioka Hiroyuki and used in Crest of the Stars and Banner of the Stars. The name Baronh means "language of the Abh". The Baronh language is derived from the ancient Japanese language, spoken...

Mandalorian (Mando’a) is a fictional language spoken by the Mandalorian of Star Wars. It is currently being developed into a working language by Karen Traviss. Portions exist in the Republic Commando video game and its spin-off books, ''Republic Commando: Hard...

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Ptydepe, is a fictional artificial language invented by Czech playwright Václav Havel in his 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. Ptydepe was...

Albus Dumbledore was noted for his ability to speak Mermish.