glossopoeia

Noun

glossopoeia (uncountable)

1. The creation of constructed languages for artistic purposes; language so created.
   • Glossopoeia, which is neither an imitative language nor a creation of names, takes us back to the borderline of the moment when the word has not yet been born, when articulation is no longer a shout but not yet discourse, when repetition is almost impossible, and along with it, language in general...1978, Jacques Derrida, translated by Alan Bass, Writing and Difference, published 1990, page 240
   • Still more curiously, English offers a second pair of homophones — “hew” and “hew” — with a quite similar range of antonymous meanings, opening the possibility of a glossopoeia of a most cunning and pleasing sort.2000, International and Area Studies, University of California, Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, volume 5, page 153