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Short for "constructed language". A language that does not occur by natural process and is not a normal product of a national culture, but is invented either for personal/private use, fiction (Klingon, Tolkien's Quenya), international communication (Esperanto), political reasons, or as an experiment.
Esperanto, a conlang designed for simple communication between differing language groups, especially European, has millions of speakers, though its exact number is uncertain.
conlang by LudwigVan February 22, 2004
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A language that has been constructed, such as Klingon or Esperanto.
His hobbies include making conlangs.
conlang by Eddy April 20, 2003

kitchen sink conlang 

(noun)-A conlang(a constructed language), usually made by an amateur conlanger who thinks that they can make their own language more interesting by cramming it with as many rare and weird features that they can possibly find so that their language becomes more 'cool', 'unique' and 'non-Englishy', but ends up being so overly complicated and hard to understand that it just results in an unholy mess
Anthony(new to conlanging): Hey Bob, I made my own language for a world building project I'm doing!

Bob(unknowing of what's about to come): Oh cool, can you show it to me?

Anthony: It's a polysynthetic split-ergative strongly head initial Navajo-Basque-Mongolian inspired language with polypersonal agreement, 6 numbers singular, dual, trial, paucal, collective and plural, 69 grammatical cases, 13 different types of evidentiality such as visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, reportative, hearsay, folktale, book-read, guessed, made-up, someone-told-me-but-I-don't-remember-who and known-lie, 19 different genders, 15 different tenses like present, just-before, an-hour-ago, earlier-today, yesterday, the-day-before-yesterday, a-week-ago, before that, a-moment-later, an-hour-later, later-today, tomorrow, the-day-after-tomorrow, a week later, after that, 12 different tones, a base-60 numeral system, OVS word order, 100 different clicks, a voiced linguolabial trill, only voiceless vowels, seven voiceless pharyngeal trills, a CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCVCCCCCCCCCCCCC syllable structure, noun incorporation, twenty degrees of politeness, an abugida-logo-abjad hybrid writing system, and a word for every single rgb colour value. I made it to imitate how real languages work so that my fictional race of dog-headed creatures with dragon wings in my novel trilogy feels more realistic and alive.

Bob: Bruh that is literally the worst kitchen sink conlang I have ever seen

Conjangle 

1. To put together or build quickly, shabbily
messed up, confused, kind of like fubar
2. To mix, organize or blend something
I wanted to clean up the computer wires in the office but they were all conjangled.

The night before the report was due, Rachel conjangled a 1-page essay.
Conjangle by Jen Eric1 November 11, 2012

conlanger 

A person who makes conlangs. Often creates a 'conculture' in addition, for a novel, or just to give his/her languages some context.
conlanger by Calréfa Hwénapleþ November 29, 2004
A consang is someone who is consanguinamorous, meaning you're into sibcest, twincest, cousincest, auntcest, brocest, daughtercest, soncest, unclecest, niececest, nephewcest, dadcest, momcest, or any other notion suggesting you're an inbreeder or incestual, instead of an outbreeder like regular people are
the way she stares at her brother flirtatiously made me assume that she's consang
consang by nigerianwut May 6, 2023

Conlin, Conlan , Conlen 

A person named Conlin, Conlan or Conlen is 'The Guy' . He is tight with all the girls and pulls out charm when needed. Hard to resist he is popular and a party animal. He is smart. He is good at everything, especially sports. Definitely, a guy to be around.
Man, look at (conlin, conlan , conlen)! How does he do it!