Fictional languages Fictional languages Created by Arthur Machen in the story The White People and later used in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Aklo is a secret language, possibly an artificial cipher or that used by a non-human race, associated with the writing of forbidden tomes and evil cultists. Alan Moore uses it to great effect in his short story and comic "In the Courtyard". ...more on Wikipedia about "Aklo"
The Al Bhed are a faction of technologists in the role-playing games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. They are notable for their use of machina (prohibited by the games' dominant Yevon religion) and the Al Bhed language that they speak, and can be recognized by the green spiral pattern visible on the irises of their eyes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Al Bhed"
In this article, the Ancient Language refers to the Ancient Language of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy, comprising Eragon, Eldest, and the third book (which has yet to be published and may be called Empire) in the fictional world of Alagaësia. The Ancient Language originated from the Grey Folk, and is used by the elves for everything, and by elves, Dragon Riders, Shades, and other magic users to perform magic. Names in this language are true names, making it the language of magic. The knowledge of one's true name grants the ability to control them/it. The pronunciation, tenses, and other things about the Ancient Language can be found in the Language Guide in the Deluxe Edition of Eragon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ancient Language (Inheritance)"
The Ascian Language is a fictional language invented by Gene Wolfe for his Fantasy series “ The Book of the New Sun”. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ascian language"
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 grammar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlantean language"
Babel-17 Language is an artificial language first put forth in Samuel R. Delany's 1966 science-fiction novel Babel-17. ...more on Wikipedia about "Babel-17 language"
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". ...more on Wikipedia about "Baronh"
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The Chakobsa language is a fictional secret language used in Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels, invented using mirabhasa principles for use by the Bhotani Assassins of the first war of Assassins. Its use was continued into the eleventh millennium by the Bene Gesserit whose Reverend Mothers were trained in its intricacies. It was also preserved in fragmented form by the Fremen of Arrakis who used it as a tongue of ritual and incantation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chakobsa"
The D'ni language (pronounced duh-NEE) was the language spoken by the D'ni, as presented in various games and novels of the Myst franchise. At the beginning of the Riven game, for instance, a native known as Cho will try and talk to you in rather broken and simple D'ni. ...more on Wikipedia about "D'ni language"
Enchanta is a fictional language that was devised for the Philippine fantasy television show ( telefantasya) Encantadia, which aired on GMA Network from May 2 to December 9, 2005. A sequel series, Etheria, started airing on December 12, 2005, and uses the same language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enchanta"
Galach is the universal language in the Dune universe, Inglo-Slavic in origin (essentially, it is a creole descended from English and Russian). Galach is the official language of the Imperium and is used in official texts and in the Royal Court on Kaitain. Other languages are used at a local level and many people will only use Galach when they meet a person from another planet. In this way Galach serves as the lingua franca of the Dune Universe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Galach"
Gargish is the fictional language used by the gargoyle race in the Ultima computer game series. It is also the language used in magic spellcasting within the game. The language is remarkably complex for one that arose out of a game. However, the vocabulary is prohibitively small, limiting its use. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gargish"
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 form and as a gestured language. Due to its use in a work of fiction it exhibits qualities of a fictional language, but also has a strong aesthetic component, so an argument could be made for it being an artistic language as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glide language"
Gnommish is the " fairy language" used in the Artemis Fowl books 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. In the first book, Artemis Fowl, a line of Gnommish runs along the bottom of each page. The same goes for Colfer's most recent book, The Opal Deception. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gnommish"
The Goa'uld language is a fictional language spoken by the Goa'uld and Jaffa from the television series Stargate SG-1. The Goa'uld language started out as the Unas Language, but it was limited by the vocal abilities of the Unas. But as the Goa'uld started to take more human hosts, their language developed and became a primary influence for Ancient Egyptian. It is now the lingua franca of the Milky Way galaxy and has retained that status in spite of the fall of the System Lords. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goa'uld language"
Hardic is a fictional language in the Earthsea series of short stories and novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. It is descended from the Old Speech, which is used for magic and in which one can only say truths (unless one is a dragon), but Hardic no longer has this magic quality. Hardic is Ged's native language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardic"
Iotic is one of the fictional languages used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin. Iotic is spoken in A-Io, a superpower of the planet Urras, one of two settings of the story (the other one being the sister planet Anarres, where Pravic is spoken). ...more on Wikipedia about "Iotic"
Klingonaase is a fictional language appearing in works by John M. Ford related to the science fiction series Star Trek, in which it is depicted as the language of the Klingon race. ...more on Wikipedia about "Klingonaase"
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). ...more on Wikipedia about "Koalang"
Ku is a fictional language appearing in the 2005 drama/ thriller film The Interpreter. In the film, Ku is a language spoken in the fictional African country of Matobo. The constructed language was created for the film by Said el-Gheithy, the director of the Centre for African Language Learning in Covent Garden London. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ku (language)"
Láadan is a constructed language created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982 to test the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis for women, specifically to determine if Western natural languages were better suited for expressing the views of men than women. The language was included in her Native Tongue science fiction series. Láadan contains a number of words that used to make unambiguous statements that include how one feels about what one is saying. According to Elgin, this is designed to counter male-centred language's limitaions on women, who are forced to respond "I know I said that, but I meant this". ...more on Wikipedia about "Láadan"
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Lapine is an artificial language constructed by Richard Adams and spoken by the fictional rabbits of his novel Watership Down. The fragments of language presented by Adams consist of about a few tens of distinct words, and are used for naming rabbits, their mythological characters, and objects common to their world. "Lapine" comes from the French word for rabbit, lapin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lapine"
In the Star Trek television series, linguacode is a universal language code that is sometimes used by the United Federation of Planets in first contact situations. Unlike forms of cryptography, which are designed to secure communications and make them impossible to decode by anyone other than the intended recipient, Linguacode is freely broadcast without encryption of any kind, and is designed to be easily understandable to any technologically sophisticated intelligence in any form of language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Linguacode"
This list of constructed languages is in alphabetical order, and divided into auxiliary, engineered, and artistic languages, and their respective subgenres. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of constructed languages"
Mandalorian (Mando’a) is a fictional language spoken by the Mandalorians of Star Wars. It is currently being developed into a working language by Karen Traviss. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mandalorian language"
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