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* The language spoken by Leeloo in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' was invented by director Luc Besson and actress 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 adaption of ''30DaysOfNight'' speak most of their lines in a fictional language. Subtitles are used so viewers can tell what they're saying.

* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross [[Anime/MacrossDoYouRememberLove Do You Remember Love]]'' does this as well, giving the Zentradi a fictional language that actually has a rudimentary grammar and a vocabulary.

* The neighbouring fictional countries of Syldavia and Borduria in ''{{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).

* The Al Bhed language in FinalFantasyX falls somewhere between this and a CypherLanguage. Every letter has been translated into a different letter.

* [[Webcomic/ElGoonishShive Uryuomoco]] is basically English with individual letters replaced. In case you're curious, the name of the language literally means "Alienese".

* The neighbouring fictional countries of Syldavia and Borduria in ''{{Tintin}}'' comes 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).

* The fictional country of Syldavia in ''{{Tintin}}'' comes with snippets of Syldavian language, which appears to be a Germanic language heavily influenced by Slavic languages (most roots are Germanic, but inflections Slavic, and it uses the Cyrillic alphabet).

* M. A. R. Barker: see the entry in the ConstructedLanguage page.

* M.A.R. Barker, also a linguistics professor, created Tsolyani and many other languages in great detail for his TabletopGames ''EmpireOfThePetalThrone'', set on the world of {{Tekumel}}. They are notably unlike European languages.

* Songs by ''Caramba''. If you think ''Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot'' is a Spanish song about the VietnamWar, [[DirtyCommunists Charlies]] and {{Mecha}}, you're sadly mistaken.

* Extreme metal band {{Bal-Sagoth}} have many lyric lines in mystic languages. Some of it is taken from Creator/HPLovecraft or other sources, while the rest is incomprehensible and presumably just evil-sounding gibberish.

* Dogg, in Creator/TomStoppard's ''Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth'' is a Fictionary comprising English words that don't mean what they mean in English, based on a thought experiement by Wittenstein. HilarityEnsues, since for example, "Cretinous pig-faced git" means "What's the time, sir?" in Dogg, but "Afternoon, squire" means "Get stuffed, you bastard".

* Dogg, in Creator/TomStoppard's ''Dogg's Hamlet and Cahoot's Macbeth'' is a Fictionary comprising English words that don't mean what they mean in English, based on a thought experiement by Wittenstein. HilarityEnsues, since for example, "Cretinous pig-faced git" means "What's the time, sir?" in Dogg, but "Afternoon, squire" means "Get stuffed, you bastard".

* DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels feature a Romulan language ("Rihannsu") that is clearly difficult if not impossible for humans to speak, mainly because -- as Duane admitted once -- it was generated entirely at random by a program she wrote for her computer.
** Contrasting this is the ''other'' Klingon language, "klingonaase", from Creator/JohnMFord's novel ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'', and subsequently used in the Klingon supplement for the FASA ''Star Trek'' roleplaying game. Predating the language created for the movies ("tlhIngan Hol"), klingonaase was meticulously thought out and structured as part of a masterful creation of Klingon culture from the ground up, the first attempt at such for ''Trek''. Klingonaase was designed to be consistent with what little snippets of Klingon language -- personal names, mainly -- were heard in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. tlhIngan Hol was also designed to be consistent with the TOS heard in the orginial series, but to avoid [[IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage sounding like english]] he had to make the phonemic inventory seen alien enough to be beleivable as a foreign language. The names in TOS were retconned to be anglicisations of the original Klingon names.
* DianeDuane's ''[[YoungWizards Feline Wizards]]'' books feature Ailurin, the language of cats. It is also slightly unpronounceable, but justifiably so, since the words are intended to sound like the meows and hisses of cats.

* In ''CrestOfTheStars'' the Abh speak [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baronh Baronh]], a language created by the author. It follows Japanese rather than English structure.

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* ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross Do You Remember Love'' does this as well, giving the Zentradi a fictional language that actually has a rudimentary grammar and a vocabulary.

** ''[[{{Macross 7}} Macross Dynamite 7]]'' briefly features Elma singing a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyk0M78Zf9E Zolan translation]] of Fire Bomber's "Planet Dance". It appears to simply be a Japanese substitution cypher.

* Rincewind, a wizard who isn't particularly good at being one, is an expert on languages, and says that he can speak Black Oroogu, a language with no nouns and only one adjective, which is obscene.

** Contrasting this is the ''other'' Klingon language, "klingonaase", from Creator/JohnMFord's novel ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'', and subsequently used in the Klingon supplement for the FASA ''Star Trek'' roleplaying game. Predating the language created for the movies ("tlhIngan Hol"), klingonaase was meticulously thought out and structured as part of a masterful creation of Klingon culture from the ground up, the first attempt at such for ''Trek''. Unlike "tlhIngan Hol", klingonaase was designed to be consistent with what little snippets of Klingon language -- personal names, mainly -- were heard in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. tlhIngan Hol was designed to be consistent with the TOS heard in the orginial series, but to avoid [[IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage sounding like english]] he had to make the phonemic inventory seen alien enough to be beleivable as a foreign language. The names in TOS were retconned to be anglicisations of the original Klingon names.

** Contrasting this is the ''other'' Klingon language, "klingonaase", from Creator/JohnMFord's novel ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'', and subsequently used in the Klingon supplement for the FASA ''Star Trek'' roleplaying game. Predating the language created for the movies ("tlhIngan Hol"), klingonaase was meticulously thought out and structured as part of a masterful creation of Klingon culture from the ground up, the first attempt at such for ''Trek''. Unlike "tlhIngan Hol", klingonaase was designed to be consistent with what little snippets of Klingon language -- personal names, mainly -- were heard in ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
*** tlhIngan Hol was designed to be consistent with the TOS heard in the orginial series, but to avoid [[IndoEuropeanAlienLanguage sounding like english]] he had to make the phonemic inventory seen alien enough to be beleivable as a foreign language. The names in TOS were retconned to be anglicisations of the original Klingon names.

* Similarly ''{{Dune}}'' has a lot of Fremen words, most of which are derived from Arabic. Justified, since they are descended from Bedouin tribes.

* Similarly, {{Enya}} employs a fictional language called Loxian, created for the purpose, in several of the songs on her 2005 CD ''Amarantine''.

* ''TheDarkTower'' series by Creator/StephenKing uses the Low Speech and High Speech of Gilead, which the "America-side" characters can understand as English but which uses a slightly different alphabet and pseudo Ancient Egyptian words such as ''Khef'' the water of life, and "Ka" the ancient Egyptian word for the life force of the soul which takes on its own complex meaning in the story.

* In {{Dragonlance}} the language of magic used by Wizards is based off of Indonesian, well actually, it only uses the Indonesian grammar structure, as most of the actual words are just gibberish.