Top 5 Fictional Languages

Nov 30 2022

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5. Newspeak

Newspeak is the fictional language created by the Party in George Orwell’s novel 1984. Although the language itself is heavily based on English, it contains features to limit freedom of thought in Orwell’s dystopian reality. To that extent, the Party sought to cut language down to the bare essentials in order to eliminate nuance from language and, through that, the way thoughts are expressed.

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