altlang
nounUS /ˈɑlt.læŋ/
Etymology Syllabic abbreviation of alternative language. By surface analysis, alt + -lang.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A constructed language created as an alternate history of a real language.
- Make a con-script, if your language would have it. (If your language is simply a Romance altlang that stays reasonably close to the original locations, it probably wouldn't use any alphabet other than the Roman.)2003 January 29, James Landau <neurotico@aol.com>, “Re: Fickleness”, in Conlang mailing list, via listserv.brown.edu: