A conlanger (pronounced /ˈkɒnlæŋər/) is a person who invents conlangs (constructed languages).
Professional Conlangers
Conlangers who have been hired to create languages.
- Marc Okrand - Klingon
- Rev. William Fulco - (reconstructed, rather than invented) the Aramaic of Jesus
- Herman Miller
Published International-Auxiliary Conlangers
"Auxlangers" are conlangers who have created languages intended for international communication.
- Louis de Beaufront
- Léon Bollack
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat
- Alexander Gode
- Otto Jespersen
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer
- Kenneth Searight
- Edgar de Wahl
- Dr. L. L. Zamenhof
Published fictional conlangers
Conlangers whose work has been published in books or other media that they created:
- Richard Adams - Lapine, in Watership Down
- Anthony Burgess
- Samuel Delany
- Diane Duane
- Suzette Haden Elgin - Láadan, in the Native Tongue series
- Václav Havel
- Frank Herbert
- M.A.R. Barker
- Hergé
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Barry B. Longyear
- Morioka Hiroyuki
- George Orwell - Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- J. R. R. Tolkien - Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul, and several other languages in The Lord of the Rings
- Karen Traviss - Mandalorian in the Star Wars expanded universe
- Christian Vander
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Robert Jordan - The Old Tongue in The Wheel of Time
- Christopher Paolini - The Ancient Language in the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon and its sequels)
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