List of language creators

A language creator, sometimes referred to as a conlanger (), is a person who invents constructed languages (or "conlangs").

Professional language creators

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
• John H. G. Scott - Baldung (for Archive 81)
• Britton Watkins - Yautja (for )
• Wolf Wikeley - Tho Fan

Published international auxiliary language creators

Individuals who have created languages intended for international communication.

• George Boeree: Lingua Franca Nova
• Léon Bollack: Bolak
• Louis Couturat and Louis de Beaufront: Ido language
• Alexander Gode: Interlingua
• Lancelot Hogben: Interglossa
• Otto Jespersen: Novial
• Francis Lodwick: Common Writing
• Jackson Moore: Moss
• François Sudre: Solresol
• Charles Kay Ogden: Basic English
• Giuseppe Peano: Latino sine flexione
• Waldemar Rosenberger: Idiom Neutral
• Johann Martin Schleyer: Volapük
• Kenneth Searight: Sona
• Edgar de Wahl: Interlingue
• John Wilkins: unnamed universal language
• L. L. Zamenhof: Esperanto

Published zonal auxiliary language creators

Individuals who have created zonal auxiliary languages intended to facilitate communication speakers of a certain group of closely related languages.

• Jan van Steenbergen: Interslavic
• Juraj Križanić
• Ján Herkeľ: Universalis Lingua Slavica

Published fictional language creators

Language creators 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
• Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and 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
• Gene Wolfe: Ascian in The Book of the New Sun

Published engineered language creators

• Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, a minimalist language which has gained a large following and several publications over the years since its creation in 2001.
• James Cooke Brown: Loglan

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