Talk:Fictional language

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Not really a language as such, just a substitution cipher... AnonMoos (talk)

Agreed. Switched to Klingon. APL (talk) 17:03, 9 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have deleted the list of fictional languages this article used to have since it duplicated the purpose of List_of_constructed_languages#Artistic.2Ffictional_languages. The information is preserved, though; I have added all of the entries from this list to that one. (Should've made my edit summary clearer.) 4pq1injbok (talk) 12:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cf. CFD Category:Language_creators —Sai ¿?✍ 14:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Typically they are the creation of one individual, while natural languages evolve out of a particular culture or people group, and other conlangs may have group involvement.

The phrasing here is kinda weird, is this implying that other conlangs may be created by a group but not fictional langs? This sentence seems to be trying to do two things at the same time: compare fictional langs to other conlangs, and compare conlangs (in general) to natlangs, which is confusing.

Fictional languages are also distinct from natural languages in that they have no native speakers.[1] By contrast, the constructed language of Esperanto now has native speakers.

The first part here seems like it's just copied from something describing conlangs in general, while the comparison with Esperanto implies that fictional langs specifically have no native speakers while other conlangs can have them. As far as I know, just like with Esperanto there was also a case of a native speaker of Klingon (a fictional language).

I think neither
a) whether they are created by an individual or a group, nor
b) whether they may have native speakers
distinguishes fictional langs from other types of conlangs, these traits are not relevant to the distinction. Both of these seem like they were taken out of context and originate from a text comparing conlangs to natlangs. The article should more clearly separate descriptions of what a conlang is in general (compared to natlangs) from descriptions of what a fictional language specifically is (compared to other conlangs). Tajoshu (talk) 13:13, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]