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A conlanger /ˈkɒnlæŋər/ is a person who invents constructed languages (aka conlangs).
Professional conlangers[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 conlangers[edit]
"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[edit]
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[edit]
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.