altlang en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɑlt.læŋ/ (General-American)
Etymology
Syllabic abbreviation of alternative language. By surface analysis, alt + -lang.
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| altlangs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |