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[[Cypher Language]]s are a subtrope of this, and many forms of [[Black Speech]] fall here as well. Contrast with [[Wingdinglish]] where a supposedly alien or original language is just regular English in a strange [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]].
Interestingly, an [[Alternative Character Interpretation|alternative title interpretation]] is that these languages tend to be spoken by die-hard fans at Cons
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** So functional indeed, that they <s>translated</s> [[In the Original Klingon|found the original]] [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Klingon_Hamlet Klingon ''Hamlet''.]
** Which has now been produced as a play by at least one theater, in the Washington DC area.
** All the Klingon spoken in every ''Star Trek'' film - from ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'' through to the 2009 reboot - is "tlhIngan Hol", and often Okrand coached the actors himself. Unfortunately most writers in the TV series (''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'') just looked up the words in the Klingon dictionary rather than using them properly, presumably due to time/money constraints.
** Linguist d'Armond Speers tried [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/mustread_pr.html raising his child to speak Klingon as a bilingual speaker] but abandoned the effort after several years, finding that the vocabulary was not extensive enough and the child abandoned speaking the language when he found only his father spoke it.
** An attempt was made to [https://web.archive.org/web/20060928222937/http://www.kli.org/wiki/index.php?Klingon%20Bible%20Translation%20Project translate the Bible into Klingon], but it fell apart because the translators couldn't agree on whether to translate the peace-and-love passages of the New Testament literally, or to instead tailor them for Klingon culture.
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* A Northern California argot called [[wikipedia:Boontling|Boontling]] is one of ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20110_5-secret-languages-that-stuck-it-to-man_p2.html 5 secret languages that stuck it to the man]. It [[Relex|uses English grammar]] but replaces many of the content words.
* [[wikipedia:Ithkuil|Ithkuil]] is an (in)famous artificial language first published in 2004 designed to "express deeper levels of human cognition overtly and clearly, particularly in regard to human categorization, yet briefly". In order to achieve this, its initial incarnation featured a phonological system of 65 consonants, 17 vowels and a god-awfully complex grammar. Even its own designer wasn't a fluent speaker of the language. To quote a troper's thoughts on the original:
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** Its later derivative, Ilàksh, was somewhat easier, but that wasn't saying much. The phonology was cut down to 30 consonants and 10 vowels, but there were new grammatical functions to consider that replaced old ones, and apparently all urges to be needlessly obtuse were funneled into [https://web.archive.org/web/20090312010536/http://ithkuil.net/ilaksh/Chapter_11.htm the writing system.] The current (and final) version isn't much bigger in terms of phonology, and its grammar has been subtly streamlined, with evocative visual aids and explanations. Still, good luck learning to form even the simplest sentences in this beast. [http://ithkuil.net/00_intro.html Check it out...if you dare.]
* K­ēlen has no verbs. You have to imply actions by declining your nouns.
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