"conlanger" meaning in English

See conlanger in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkɑn.læŋ.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈkɒn.læŋ.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav [Southern-England] Forms: conlangers [plural]
Etymology: From conlang + -er. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|conlang|er|id2=occupation}} conlang + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} conlanger (plural conlangers)
  1. Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs). Wikipedia link: conlanger Categories (topical): Conlanging, People Coordinate_terms: auxlanger Translations (one who creates constructed languages): keinokielen kehittäjä (Finnish), idéolinguiste (French), conlanger [feminine, masculine] (French), קונלנגר (Hebrew), glossopoeta (Italian), språkforfatter [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), językotwórca [masculine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for conlanger meaning in English (4.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "conlang",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "conlang + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From conlang + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conlangers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conlanger (plural conlangers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "con‧lang‧er"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Conlanging",
          "orig": "en:Conlanging",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Language",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "auxlanger"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mari C. Jones, Ishtla Singh, Exploring Language Change, page 154",
          "text": "The fact that the Internet has given visible shape to communities of invented language proponents through web sites and chat rooms for enthusiastic conlangers (‘language constructors’) has probably done little to dispel its reputation as a somewhat unusual and, to all intents and purposes, intangible undertaking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, William Allison Shimer, The American Scholar, volume 75, page 99",
          "text": "The split was between two groups. The first was composed of people interested in quietly developing and discussing the languages they crafted for science-fictional worlds, what-if-a-language-did-this playfulness, or Tolkienesque fun (the true conlangers).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Bryan Cogman, Inside HBO′s Game of Thrones, page 174",
          "text": "The goal of a conlanger, a language creator, is to realize a linguistic system that′s both unique and authentic—something that doesn't exist anywhere on Earth, but which a linguist wouldn′t be surprised to find in the wild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs)."
      ],
      "id": "en-conlanger-en-noun-sRZjQwrK",
      "links": [
        [
          "constructed language",
          "constructed language"
        ],
        [
          "conlang",
          "conlang"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "word": "keinokielen kehittäjä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "word": "idéolinguiste"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "conlanger"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "word": "קונלנגר"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "word": "glossopoeta"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "språkforfatter"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "językotwórca"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "conlanger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɑn.læŋ.ɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒn.læŋ.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conlanger"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "word": "auxlanger"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "conlang",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "occupation"
      },
      "expansion": "conlang + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From conlang + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conlangers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conlanger (plural conlangers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "con‧lang‧er"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Conlanging",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Mari C. Jones, Ishtla Singh, Exploring Language Change, page 154",
          "text": "The fact that the Internet has given visible shape to communities of invented language proponents through web sites and chat rooms for enthusiastic conlangers (‘language constructors’) has probably done little to dispel its reputation as a somewhat unusual and, to all intents and purposes, intangible undertaking.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, William Allison Shimer, The American Scholar, volume 75, page 99",
          "text": "The split was between two groups. The first was composed of people interested in quietly developing and discussing the languages they crafted for science-fictional worlds, what-if-a-language-did-this playfulness, or Tolkienesque fun (the true conlangers).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Bryan Cogman, Inside HBO′s Game of Thrones, page 174",
          "text": "The goal of a conlanger, a language creator, is to realize a linguistic system that′s both unique and authentic—something that doesn't exist anywhere on Earth, but which a linguist wouldn′t be surprised to find in the wild.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "constructed language",
          "constructed language"
        ],
        [
          "conlang",
          "conlang"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "conlanger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɑn.læŋ.ɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒn.læŋ.ə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/98/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-conlanger.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "word": "keinokielen kehittäjä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "word": "idéolinguiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "conlanger"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "word": "קונלנגר"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "word": "glossopoeta"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "språkforfatter"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one who creates constructed languages",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "językotwórca"
    }
  ],
  "word": "conlanger"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.