History Main / Fictionary

When this is done by a character, it's PersonalDictionary. When this is used to suggest an "alien" world that suspiciously resembles our own, it's CallARabbitASmeerp.

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series has "Galard", which functions as that universe's common alien language, though most alien converse in English on Earth, presumably to practise being undercover. There are also snippets of the Andalites' language, used when an Andalite word is untranslatable.[[note]]This leads to some FridgeLogic, as the Andalites are telepathic and their language is explained in ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' to be constructed of universally-understood mental symbolism.[[/note]] There's also the Hork-Bajir language, of which there are at least twenty known words.

* The ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series has "Galard", which functions as that universe's common alien language, though most alien converse in English on Earth, presumably to practise being undercover. There are also snippets of the Andalites' language, used when an Andalite word is untranslatable. There's also the Hork-Bajir language, of which there are at least twenty known words.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' parodied the trope with the "Becktionary", a dictionary of [[PerfectlyCromulentWord words made up]] by singer-songwriter Music/{{Beck}} Hansen and appearing in his music ("From Bizooty to Whiskeyclone").

* The language spoken by Leeloo in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' was invented by director Luc Besson and actress Creator/MillaJovovich (who played Leeloo). It was so thoroughly worked out that reportedly by the end of filming, Besson and Jovovich were regularly holding entire conversations in it.
* The vampires in the film adaptation of ''Film/ThirtyDaysOfNight'' speak most of their lines in a fictional language. Subtitles are used so viewers can tell what they're saying.

** The Vulcan dialogue was created by linguist Marc Okrand (who went on to invent the [[ConstructedLanguage Klingon language]] for the [[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock third film]]) -- but only ''after'' the scenes had already been shot ''in English''. For both films, Okrand had to select phonetic constructions which would plausibly lip-synch to the existing footage, hence why Vulcan sounds somewhat like inside-out English. If either Vulcan-language exchange is muted, it is quite obvious that the subtitles are only slightly altered from what the actors are actually saying. In fact, the director's cut of the first film alters the Vulcan priestess's subtitles even further to make it less obvious.
* The cast of the movie ''Film/{{Caveman}}'' (except for one Asian guy, who speaks English for some reason) communicate in a made-up language that has maybe two dozen words in it, not counting personal names. There is no real grammatical structure, as there are no sentences spoken with more than three words in them, and these sentences can mean different things depending on context. For example, 'Nya ool' (literally: 'No food') can mean things like 'There is no food', 'I do not have food', or 'This is not food'.

* In ''Film/QuestForFire'', the Neanderthal tribe speaks a language invented by Creator/AnthonyBurgess for the film.

* Hold on, I'll try the Universal Greeting: "[[{{Transformers}} Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!]]"

** Every character in ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}: Door to Phantomile'' and the sequels speaks in a (subtitled) language based on Japanese, but with its own vocabulary and syntax, to a certain extent (for example, the words "Rupuru" for "to go", "Rakuru" for "to help", etc. and the ending -du which means "I" or "me" - "Rakurudu" means "Help me", for instance).
** The song that plays in the Mts. Of Mira-Mira level in ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} 2: Lunatea's Veil'' ("Wahoo Stomp" in English, "Stepping Wind" in Japanese) is entirely in that language, but the lyrics have an actual translation. There's also "beruyo" for "bell", "rengu" for "ring" and maybe one or two other words.

* The cultists in ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' speak Domus Durbentia ("Dark Wisdom"), a language that was created by grabbing random words from Latin and Sanskrit and assigning new meanings to them.

* Drummer/composer/singer Christian Vander created the language Kobaïan for his band, Magma. The lyrics deal primarily with an interplanetary war between Earth (Ïtah, in Kobaïan) and Kobaïa.
** Various Zeuhl bands, most notably Ruins, have created further iterations on Kobaïan.

* The music of many Cirque du Soleil soundtracks use made-up language, often sounding French, Italian, or based on another Romance language. The sound of the language used seems to differ between each show.
** Occasionally songs have straightforward foreign-language lyrics; "Alegria" is probably the best-known example. The 1993 retrospective book explains the made-up language this way: "Gibberish is universal. Gibberish is direct. Gibberish cuts through cultural divides." Fans call this "Cirquish," and it has no literal meaning. (''Mystère'' lampshades this when the emcee tries to announce the theatre rules in Cirquish and his puppet warns him "They don't understand you, stupid!")

* What are they singing on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' soundtrack? Not sure, but it sounds pretty.
** Presumably, it's supposed to represent the rats singing, like they did in the book.

* Creator/ChristopherPaolini invented three languages for the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': the Ancient Language (spoken by elves and magic users, based on Old Norse), [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarvish]] (mostly made up by Paolini), and the Urgal language (as of ''Brisingr'', still limited to mainly a few words). There also exists another language spoken by the nomads, but it hasn't been given any detail yet, except for clarification that adding "-no" to the end of a person's name is an honorific. The Ancient Language is similar to English but not entirely the same, so partly crossing over into conlang (although full rules of grammar have yet to be provided), while the dwarven language is far less similar to any pre-existing ones. A common criticism is that the Ancient Language and the Dwarven Language are simply encoded English with a few archaic word orders thrown in to spice it up. This is improved upon slightly in later books. He also [[CriticalResearchFailure drops a huge clanger]] when Oromis talks about Eragon's screw-up with Elva, where he applies idiosyncratic rules of English, wrongly, to his fictional language. (Just for the record, "May you be shielded," is not in the past tense).

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* Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}'' novels introduce the reader to a good amount of Ragi, a language spoken by the atevi species. Not surprising as the protagonist is a translator by profession.

** Incidentally, the designer wrote up the actual language in full, then realized it would be counterintuitive to record the dialogue in full, since it was supposed to reduce the number of spoken lines necessary in the files. So most of the lines are about [[EverythingsBetterWithCows cows]].

-->-- '''Oswin Errol''', ''[[Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth The Lost Road]]'', Creator/JRRTolkien

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' uses a substitution cipher for its in-universe texts, named Matoran.

* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', we have the Saurian language which is a simple letter-substitution language used on Sauria. See here: http://starfox.wikia.com/wiki/Saurian

* In the Legacy of Tril series by Heather Brewer (writer of Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod and Literature/TheSlayerChronicles), the Trillians speak mostly English, but with the swear-words being merely re-spelled from their English equivalents ("fak," "dek," "terked off," etc.) Also counts as extremely blatant GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

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* The neighbouring fictional countries of Syldavia and Borduria in ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' come with snippets of their languages, which appear to be Germanic languages heavily influenced by Slavic languages (most roots are Germanic, but inflections Slavic, and Syldavian uses the Cyrillic alphabet).
** A [[http://www.zompist.com/syldavian.html partial grammar]] has been devised.