Fictional language is a device used by authors to underline differences in culture by having their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated. Primary examples of this are the many languages of
JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth,
George Orwell's
Newspeak in
1984,
Ursula K. LeGuin's Pravic
? in
The Dispossessed and [Anthony Burgess]
??'s Nadsat? in
A Clockwork Orange.
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