What is a conlanger? A conlanger is a person who creates new languages.
A number of authors (especially fantasy writers) and linguists are conlangers.
Conlangers make up languages for many different reasons. It can be for a story,
novel, or script they themselves are writing. Conlangers can be hired to write
a new language or improve on an existing one for a movie, television show or
even a video game. Others may come up with a new language as a hobby or for
reasons only known to them.
Creation of new languages is no longer done in playgrounds or dorm
rooms. New languages used to stay only in journals, in word processing
documents or in websites. Now, there is a market for creating new languages – television
and the movies. Of course a number of authors in the past have created
languages for use in their books. Think J.R.R. Tolkien, George Orwell, Frank
Herbert and more. But today, more and more new languages are created for
science fiction and fantasy movies.
