{"id":13,"date":"2020-09-18T00:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:56:43","slug":"invented-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/invented-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Klingon to Elvish, from Newspeak to Nadsat, I have a passionate interest in invented languages; why people invent languages, what purposes those languages serve, and what they can tell us about our organic languages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve organised an international conference on them, and <a data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/2016\/mar\/15\/invented-languages-nadsat-newspeak-klingon-elvish-dwarvish\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/2016\/mar\/15\/invented-languages-nadsat-newspeak-klingon-elvish-dwarvish\">written about them in the media.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m the co-director of a research project which looks at how invented languages are translated, and what that can tell us about the art of translation. There&#8217;s a lot more about that on the <a data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/\" href=\"http:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">project website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also read my blogposts on invented languages <a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/category\/invented-languages\/\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new academic paper in this area is due for publication in the next while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Klingon to Elvish, from Newspeak to Nadsat, I have a passionate interest in invented languages; why people invent languages, what purposes those languages serve, and what they can tell us about our organic languages. I&#8217;ve organised an international conference on them, and written about them in the media. I&#8217;m the co-director of a research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/invented-languages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Invented Languages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From Klingon to Elvish, from Newspeak to Nadsat, I have a passionate interest in invented languages; why people invent languages, what purposes those languages serve, and what they can tell us about our organic languages. 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