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fictlang

/ˈfɪktˌlæŋ/

fictlang noun: a fictional language; a constructed language originally created for a fictional setting.

Noun

fictlang (plural fictlangs)

  1. A fictional language; a constructed language originally created for a fictional setting.
    • Suzette Haden Elgin's La`adan fictlang has an evidential for facts revealed to the speaker in a dream.2005 May 26, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@yahoo.com>, “Re: THEORY: Are commands to believe infelicitous?”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu

Forms of fictlang

pluralfictlangs

Origin of fictlang

Syllabic abbreviation of fictional language. By surface analysis, suffixed with -lang.

Questions about fictlang

What does fictlang mean?
Fictlang means a fictional language; a constructed language originally created for a fictional setting.
What part of speech is fictlang?
Fictlang is a noun.
How do you pronounce fictlang?
Fictlang is pronounced /ˈfɪktˌlæŋ/.
What is the plural of fictlang?
The plural of fictlang is fictlangs.

Words near fictlang in the dictionary

  1. fictive kin
  2. fictively
  3. fictiveness
  4. fictives
  5. fictivity
  6. fictlang
  7. ficto-
  8. fictocritical
  9. fictocriticism
  10. fictography
  11. fictomercial

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