List of language creators
A language creator, sometimes referred to as a conlanger, is a person who invents constructed languages.
Professional language creators
Individuals who have been hired to create languages.- Victoria Fromkin - Paku
- Paul Frommer - Na'vi, Barsoomian
- Madhan Karky - Kiliki
- Marc Okrand - Klingon, Vulcan, Atlantean
- Matt Pearson - Thhtmaa
- David J. Peterson - Dothraki, Valyrian, Kastithanu, L'Irathi, Indojisnen, Sondiv, Shiväisith, Lishepus, Trigedasleng, Noalath, Inha, Munja'kin
- John H. G. Scott - Baldung
- Britton Watkins - Yautja ''
- Wolf Wikeley - Tho Fan
Published international auxiliary language creators
- Louis de Beaufront
- George Boeree
- Léon Bollack
- James Cooke Brown
- Louis Couturat: Ido language
- Alexander Gode
- Ján Herkeľ
- Lancelot Hogben
- Otto Jespersen
- Francis Lodwick: Common Writing
- Juraj Križanić
- Matija Majar
- Jackson Moore
- Charles Kay Ogden
- Giuseppe Peano: Latino sine flexione
- Kenneth L. Pike
- Waldemar Rosenberger
- Johann Martin Schleyer: Volapük
- Kenneth Searight: Sona
- Jan van Steenbergen
- Edgar de Wahl: Interlingue
- John Wilkins: unnamed universal language
- L. L. Zamenhof: Esperanto
Published fictional language creators
- Richard Adams: Lapine, in Watership Down
- M.A.R. Barker: Tsolyáni for Tékumel
- Hector Berlioz
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Anthony Burgess: Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange and 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
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz: in The Writing on the Wall
- 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
- Gene Wolfe: Ascian in ''The Book of the New Sun''
Other notable language creators
- Sonja Lang: Toki Pona, a minimalist language which has gained a large following and several publications over the years since its creation in 2001.