List of language creators
A conlanger /ˈkɒnlæŋər/ is a person who invents constructed languages (aka conlangs).
Professional conlangers
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 conlangers
"Auxlangers" are conlangers who have created languages intended for international communication.
- Louis de Beaufront
- Léon Bollack
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat
- George Boeree
- Alexander Gode
- Ján Herkeľ
- Lancelot Hogben
- Alex G. Igbineweka
- Otto Jespersen
- Juraj Križanić
- Matija Majar
- Vojtěch Merunka
- Jackson Moore
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer
- Kenneth Searight
- Jan van Steenbergen
- Edgar de Wahl
- L. L. Zamenhof
Published fictional conlangers
Conlangers 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
- Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange & 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
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Other Notable Conlangers
This section is for conlangers whose languages aren’t in popular media but are very significant within the conlanging community, or have made popular languages but don’t fit in other categories
- Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, a minimalist language based partially on Taoism. It has gained a large following over the years since its creation in 2001.
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