A language creator, sometimes referred to as a conlanger (), is a person who invents constructed languages (or "conlangs").

Professional language creators

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

• John H. G. Scott - Baldung (for Archive 81)

• Britton Watkins - Yautja (for Predator: Badlands)

• Wolf Wikeley - Tho Fan

Published international auxiliary language creators

Individuals who have created languages intended for international communication.

• George Boeree: Lingua Franca Nova

• Louis Couturat and Louis de Beaufront: Ido language

• Alexander Gode: Interlingua

• Lancelot Hogben: Interglossa

• Otto Jespersen: Novial

• Francis Lodwick: Common Writing

• Jackson Moore: Moss

• François Sudre: Solresol

• Charles Kay Ogden: Basic English

• Giuseppe Peano: Latino sine flexione

• Waldemar Rosenberger: Idiom Neutral

• Johann Martin Schleyer: Volapük

• Kenneth Searight: Sona

• Edgar de Wahl: Interlingue

• John Wilkins: unnamed universal language

• L. L. Zamenhof: Esperanto

Published zonal auxiliary language creators

Individuals who have created zonal auxiliary languages intended to facilitate communication speakers of a certain group of closely related languages.

• Jan van Steenbergen: Interslavic

• Juraj Križanić

• Ján Herkeľ: Universalis Lingua Slavica

Published fictional language creators

Language creators 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

• 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 (Eragon and its sequels)

• 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

Published engineered 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.

• James Cooke Brown: Loglan

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