History Main / Fictionary

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' adds the language of dragons, "[[LanguageOfMagic Dovahzul]]", which has (variable) meanings in English, and even has it's own sort-of dictionary in the official guide for the game. It rather follows the basic structure of old Scandinavian.

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* [[http://www.geocities.com/sihtrin/language.html D'ni]] in ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}''.

* While ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' contains plenty of AliensSpeakingEnglish, it also has a fairly well-developed language of its own called Tantalog. Though only a few phrases have been fully translated, [[AllThereInTheManual on the series' website]], there have been a few rather detailed online dictionaries made based on its usage in ''[[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries The Series]]''.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels have mentioned a few words from the languages of trolls and dwarfs. Most of these are [[TranslationYes humorously concise]], such as the Troll word "aagragaah" (which means "forebodings", but more literally translates as "[[OhCrap the moment you see the little pebbles that indicate an avalanche is coming, and realize it's too late to run away]]") and the Dwarf word "drudak'ak" (a word for more traditional dwarfs that literally means "those who do not get out in the fresh air much", possibly idiomatically "homebodies").

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* ''Webcomic/SnowByNight'' has a [[http://www.snowbynight.com/almanac/aradie_slang.php good number of unique words]] that have a vague resemblance to French, as well as normal English words that have been redefined to correspond to a different concept.

* ''Webcomic/SnowByNight'' has a [[http://www.snowbynight.com/almanac/language.html good number of unique words]] that have a vague resemblance to French, as well as normal English words that have been redefined to correspond to a different concept.

* There are [[http://www.zompist.com entire]] [[http://www.langmaker.com websites]][[note]] As of June 4, 2009 LangMaker is offline[[/note]] devoted to making your own language. Some are for roleplaying games, some are for novels, some are for coded use between friends, and some are just for fun. It's called "conlanging" (from "constructed language").
** Not just individual websites. Zompist, linked above, [[http://www.incatena.org runs a forum]] with a fairly lively community of conlangers.
*** [[http://www.zompist.com/lckbook.html Now in book form.]]
* Twins are also known to invent [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioglossia languages]], or at least dialects, for themselves.
** For that matter, so are other close siblings, or any other groups growing up and learning a language together, from pidgins to teenaged slang.
* In fact, some times ago, a lot of peoples created new languages (Tolkien was just one of them). Some were so good at it some of these languages were even taught in schools as real languages.
** In fact, TV Tropes now has a [[Qu/HomePage Quenya language wiki!]] Alatulya!
* Esperanto could fall under this, since it was made for the purpose of being a language easy to understand for most Europeans.
** Actually Esperanto subverts this. There are now (or at least back in 2000 when the last survey took place) at least 2,000 '''native''' speakers of Esperanto -- which is an order of magnitude more than the number of speakers for many of the smaller "natural" languages.
** Esperanto is a conlang, complete with the aforementioned developed syntax and grammar rules.
* While scholars tend to agree that it is written in plain text (i.e. not encoded), the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript Voynich Manuscript]] is nonetheless written in a currently indecipherable language.

* 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 of the Literature/InheritanceCycle 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).

* ''Franchise/TheSims'' games have [[SpeakingSimlish Simlish, a completely nonsense language with no actual meanings]]. However, for ''VideoGame/TheSims2: University'', they had a number of bands compose Simlish versions of existing songs for the new College Rock in-game radio station. Some of the bands simply came up with gibberish, others somehow laboriously 'translated' their songs into Simlish. Simlish is one of the most euphonious languages for music, and some of the songs are arguably improvements over the original.

* ''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".

* 'Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':

*** Some fans suspect that the lyrics to the OVA theme song "Almateria," which have so far not been matched to any real language, are supposed to be in the "angelic language."

* The Argentine comedy band LesLuthiers has Cardoso En Gulevandia; a bilingual opera spoken in Spanish and the Romance-based fictional language Gulevache.

* Daedric script in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' games is a substitution cipher for English, but ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s Ayleid language, and its parent language Aldmeris, involve actual non-english words. Translating Ayleid is part of one of the quests for the Mages Guild, and similar words in parent languages translate the Morrowind city of Balmora to "stone forest" (which is a stylistic way of saying "city"), the assassins' guild Morag Tong as the "foresters guild" (most assuredly a metaphor which may or may not involve hacking with an axe), and one of the Daedra, Molag Bal, being translated as ...fire... ...stone... Probably the least appropriate title, seeing as Mehrunes Dagon is the destructive god with all the fire, and Molag Bal is more for general unpleasantness (attributed to creating vampires, and is sometimes called the "king of rape"...).
** Perhaps the fire bit means he has and/or passes on [=STDs=].
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has the language of dragons, all of which have (variable) meanings in English, and even has it's own sort-of dictionary in the official guide for the game. It rather follows the basic structure of old Scandinavian.

* In the ''ArTonelico'' series, the usually-sung [[MagicMusic Hymmnos language]] is a strange mix of English, German, and Sanskrit -- and a little binary.
** Hymmnos has grammar and syntax rules, so by the rules given above, it does not belong on this page.

* The recent relaxation of the language restrictions in the EurovisionSongContest has led to several entries in fictional languages, including "Sanomi" by Urban Trad (Belgium 2003) and "Amambanda" by Treble (Netherlands 2005). Belgium tried it again in 2008 with 'O Julissi'(by Ishtar). The first finished in second place, just two points behind the winner, while the other two didn't get past the semifinal.

* Creator/DianeDuane's ''[[Literature/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.

* KarenTraviss took the rhythmic chanting over the ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' game menu and developed (indeed, is still developing) it into Mando'a, the Mandalorian language, for use in her Republic Commando novels. Close attention is being paid to etymologies and the connections between words... on the other hand, grammar has been quite deliberately tossed out the window, under the reasoning that the ''Mando'ade'' are soldiers and don't give an ''osik'' how you speak as long as you get it across.

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

* Creator/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.

* Ditto YukiKajiura, whose language has been dubbed "Kajiuran" by her fans.

* YokoKanno uses an invented French-like language for some of her songs, with the backup of a philosophy that EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench.

* ''Anime/{{Macross}}''

* ''Anime/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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}''
** Every character in ''VideoGame/KlonoaDoorToPhantomile'' 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/Klonoa2LunateasVeil'' ("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 entirety of the dialogue in the ''VideoGame/PanzerDragoon'' games is in a fictional language that is, apparently, somewhat based off of Latin. It has no official name and so is known solely as Panzerese among the fandom.