frankenlang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A conlang that has components from numerous languages but is poorly put together.
Example Sentences
- "[Disclaimer: I've never actually made a conlang this way yet -- this is just what I do with my *current* conlang by picking what I figure would sound like a good ancestor-lang root and "mutating" it -- so don't blame me if it produces a frankenlang :-P]"
- "I'd heartily recommend it for frankenlang inclusion, tho!"
- "My Summer Conlang 2016 is Olathe/Ulathi*, which uses material from a lot of sketches and half-baked conlanguettes. It may be a bit of a Frankenlang, but I hope it will absorb enough of those ideas that I can use it as my main toylang and reduce the total number of conlangs I start that never go anywhere."
- "But there are many people who do violence to Tolkien's languages and cobble together their own frankenlangs from Quenya and Sindarin plus stuff from Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying handbooks and other sources that get in the way, such as the "Elvish" language of the "Grey Company"[.]"
- "Every time I see another Romance IAL or Spanish-French-Italian-frankenlang I cringe so hard."