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| x name | x image | x Found in fictional universe | x Spoken in fictional settings | x Spoken by character species | x article |
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| x Huttese language | Star Wars |
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...
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| x Galactic Basic | Star Wars | ||||
| x Shyriiwook | Star Wars | Kashyyyk | Wookiee | ||
| x Xaczik | Star Wars | ||||
| x American English | The West Wing |
American English (variously abbreviated AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two thirds of native speakers of...
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| x English Language |
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Futurama |
English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England. As a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and of the United States...
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| x Mermish | Harry Potter Universe | Mermaids |
Albus Dumbledore was noted for his ability to speak Mermish.
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| x Silent film |
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Le Voyage dans la Lune |
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, synchronized...
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| x Marain | The Culture |
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...
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| x Klingon language |
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Star Trek | Klingon |
The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol in Klingon) is the constructed language spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. Deliberately designed by Marc Okrand to be "alien", it contains many peculiarities. The language's basic sound, along...
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| x Newspeak | Nineteen Eighty-Four |
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...
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| x Quenya |
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Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷɛɲa]) 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), in the fantasy works of J. R...
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| x Sindarin |
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Middle-earth |
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...
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| x Mandalorian language |
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Star Wars | Mandalorian |
Mandalorian (Mando￢ﾀﾙ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...
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| x D'ni language |
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The D'ni language (pronounced [dəˈni:]) 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...
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| x Ptydepe |
Ptydepe is a fictional artificial language featuring in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. In...
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| x Nadsat |
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange. In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was also a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of...
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| x Pravic |
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...
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| x Lapine |
Lapine is a constructed language created by author Richard Adams for his 1972 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...
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| x Old Tongue |
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...
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| x Baronh |
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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...
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| x Common Eldarin |
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...
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| x Primitive Quendian |
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...
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| x Adûnaic |
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...
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| x Minbari | Babylon 5 | ||||
| x Guild Cant | Exalted | ||||
| x Forest-tongue | Exalted | ||||
| x High Realm | Exalted | ||||
| x Old Realm | Exalted | ||||
| x Low Realm | Exalted | ||||
| x Skytoungue | Exalted | ||||
| x Riverspeak | Exalted | ||||
| x Seatongue | Exalted | ||||
| x Flametongue | Exalted | ||||
| x Swedish Language |
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Jönssonligan |
Swedish ( svenska (help·info)) is a North Germanic language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the Åland islands. It is to a considerable extent mutually...
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| x Galactic | The Foundation Universe | Human |
Galactic is the international language spoken in the Asimov's Foundation series's fictional world. It is understood by any man in the Galaxy, although a number of dialects exist among the thousands planets and solar systems.
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| x Greek Language |
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Greek (ελληνικά, IPA: [e̞liniˈka] or ελληνική γλώσσα, IPA: [e̞liniˈkʲi ˈɣlo̞sa]) is an Indo-European language native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greeks. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European. It has the...
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| x Greek, Ancient Language |
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Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic (c. 9th–6th centuries BC), Classical (c. 5th–4th centuries BC), and Hellenistic (c. 3rd century BC–6th century AD) periods of ancient Greece...
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| x Nahuatl, Classical Language | Aztec mythology |
Classical Nahuatl (also known as Aztec, and simply Nahuatl) is a term used to describe the variants of the Nahuatl language that were spoken in the Valley of Mexico — and central Mexico as a lingua franca — at the time of the 16th-century Spanish...
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| x Latin Language |
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Latin (lingua Latīna, pronounced [laˈtiːna]) is an Italic language historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe. Romance languages such as Italian,...
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| x Elvish languages |
Elvish languages are constructed languages used typically by elves in a fantasy setting.
Author J. R. R. Tolkien created many languages for Elves, which eventuated in the creation of a mythology (expounded in his books), complete with races, to...
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| x Sudric |
Sudric is a fictional language of the island of Sodor in The Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry. Sudric is similar to Manx, and like Manx, it is falling out of use.
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| x Eloi language |
Eloi language is a constructed language spoken by Eloi people in the novel The Time Machine written by H. G. Wells and the 2002 movie The Time machine. For use in the movie it was created by screenwriter John Logan.
Eloi language seems not to be...
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| x Chorukor |
Chorukor is a fictional artificial language featuring in Czech playwright Václav Havel's 1966 play The Memorandum. The play concerns the events that unfold when Ptydepe is introduced as the new official language of an unspecified organization. At...
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| x Koalang |
Koalang is a term invented by Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer. It was a language used by people in a totalitarian world called Paradyzja (in Zajdel's 1984 book by the same title, Paradyzja). The English term would be probably better...
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| x Prlwytzkofsky |
Prlwytzkofsky is a fictional written variant of the Dutch language, based on the idiolect of the Polish-German Professor Zbigniew Prlwytzkofsky (sometimes spelled Prlwytzkofski), as featured in the Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch) and Oliver B. Bumble ...
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| x Iotic |
Iotic is also a fictional language in the Saga of the Skolian Empire books by Catherine Asaro.
Iotic is one of the fictional languages used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Iotic is spoken in A-Io,...
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| x Atlantean language |
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The Atlantean language is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Disney's film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The language was intended as a possible "mother language" and was therefore invented to have Indo-European word stock with its own...
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| x Láadan |
Láadan is a constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, specifically to determine if development of a language aimed at expressing the views of women would shape a culture; a subsidiary hypothesis...
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| x Strine |
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Strine is a term coined in 1964 and subsequently used to describe a joke or made-up "language" purportedly spoken by Australians. The term is a syncope, derived from a phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of the word "Australian" in an...
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| x Hardic |
Hardic is a fictional language in the Earthsea series of short stories and novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. One of three languages spoken in Earthsea, along with Kargish and Osskili, it is remotely descended from the Old Speech (the language of magic)....
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| x Galach |
Galach is the universal lingua franca in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert, described in the "Terminology of the Imperium" appendix of Dune as "Hybrid Inglo-Slavic with strong traces of cultural-specialization terms adopted during...
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| x Glide language |
The Glide language, or simply Glide, is a highly-abstract visual constructed language created by Diana Reed Slattery and features prominently in her science fiction novel The Maze Game. It exists in both the novel and the real world as a written...
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| x Simlish |
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Simlish is a fictional language featured in Maxis' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter, and has been especially prominent in The Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. Simlish can also be heard in SimCity 4, but far less frequently. Civilized...
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| x Chakobsa |
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Chakobsa is a fictional language used by the Fremen people of the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. In the series of novels which begins with Dune, the language is said to be based on another fictitious language, the Bhotani Jib. Herbert...
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| x Gnommish |
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Gnommish is the "fairy language" used in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. It is not actually a language at all, but the English language encoded into a letter-substitution cipher where each symbol represents a letter. Lines of translatable...
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| x The Speech |
The Speech is an idealized language found throughout modern fantasy/science fiction. It is considered a central language, the root of all tongues, and in some cases the true describing words that made the universe. Unifying characteristics of this...
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| x Utopian language |
The Utopian language is the constructed language of the fictional land of Utopia. It is found in an addendum to Thomas More's Utopia, written by his good friend Peter Giles.
Utopian seems to be pronounced just like the Latin of Thomas More's time,...
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| x Starsza Mowa |
Starsza Mowa (Polish for Older Speech) is a language created by Andrzej Sapkowski for short stories and the saga of the Hexer. It is based on English, French, Welsh, Irish, Latin and other languages. One of the most important dialects is the one...
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| x Ascian language |
The Ascian Language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his fantasy series The Book of the New Sun.
The language is spoken by the inhabitants of the “northern continents” of the future earth, the Ascians, who are enslaved by their...
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