Few writers have created a language quite as fully realised as Tolkien’s, but plenty have flavoured their fiction with invented tongues. Sometimes it’s to underscore a point.

What language do the Minions speak, and who voiced them? He started the series. It’s clear that the success of a production depends on many factors, from the engaging script to execution.

Most languages develop through centuries of use among groups of people. But some have a different origin: They are invented, from scratch, from one individual’s mind. Familiar examples include ...

Researchers have even used invented language to investigate whether the words we use shape the way we think. In 1955, a sociologist named James Cooke Brown set out to create a language that made ...

Hash yer dothrae chek asshekh? This is how you ask someone how they are in Dothraki, one of the languages David Peterson invented for the phenomenally successful Game of Thrones series. It is an ...

In the Land of Invented LanguagesEsperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and ...

According to Arika Okrent’s highly entertaining book “In the Land of Invented Languages,” the two most popular invented languages in the delirious, 900-year history of such endeavors serve ...

ESPERANTO WAS invented by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, a Jewishophthalmologist reared in Bialostok, Poland, a city of many ethnic groups, including Germans, Poles and Russians, all speaking different ...

Up to 50% of twins develop their own communication pattern with one another. Most lose it over time, but for the Youlden twins it has become a normal way of communicating.