List of language creators

A conlanger /ˈkɒnlæŋər/ is a person who invents constructed languages (aka conlangs).

Professional conlangers[]

Individuals who have been hired to create languages.

• Victoria Fromkin - Paku (a.k.a. Pakuni)
• Paul Frommer - Na'vi, Barsoomian
• Madhan Karky - Kiliki
• Marc Okrand - Klingon, Vulcan, Atlantean
• Matt Pearson - Thhtmaa
• David J. Peterson - Dothraki, Valyrian, Kastithanu (Castithan), L'Irathi (Irathient), Indojisnen, Sondiv, Shiväisith, Lishepus, Trigedasleng, Noalath, Inha, Munja'kin
• Wolf Wikeley - Tho Fan

Published international-auxiliary conlangers[]

"Auxlangers" are conlangers who have created languages intended for international communication.

• Louis de Beaufront
• Léon Bollack
• James Cooke Brown
• Louis Couturat
• George Boeree
• Alexander Gode
• Ján Herkeľ
• Lancelot Hogben
• Otto Jespersen
• Juraj Križanić
• Matija Majar
• Jackson Moore
• Charles Kay Ogden
• Giuseppe Peano
• Kenneth L. Pike
• Waldemar Rosenberger
• Johann Martin Schleyer
• Kenneth Searight
• Jan van Steenbergen
• Edgar de Wahl
• L. L. Zamenhof

Published fictional conlangers[]

Conlangers whose work has been published in books or other media that they created:

• Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down
• M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel
• Hector Berlioz
• Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange & a prehistoric language in Quest for Fire.
• Samuel R. Delany
• Suzette Doctolero: Enchanta from the Encantadia Saga.
• Diane Duane
• Suzette Haden Elgin: Láadan, in the Native Tongue series
• Václav Havel
• Frank Herbert
• Hergé
• Robert Jordan: The Old Tongue in The Wheel of Time
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Barry B. Longyear
• George Orwell: Newspeak, in Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Christopher Paolini: The Ancient Language in the Inheritance Cycle (Eragon and its sequels)
• Lynne Sharon Schwartz: in
• J. R. R. Tolkien: more than twenty languages including Quenya, Sindarin, Khuzdul; see Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Karen Traviss: Mando'a in the Star Wars expanded universe
• Christian Vander
• Tad Williams: Higher Singing in Tailchaser's Song
• Marion Zimmer Bradley

Other notable conlangers[]

This section is for conlangers whose languages aren't in popular media but are very significant within the conlanging community, or have made popular languages but don't fit in other categories

• Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, a minimalist language based partially on Taoism. It has gained a large following over the years since its creation in 2001.