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Newspeak

fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
Intangible fictional_language Q654101
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Summary

Newspeak is a fictional language[1]. Newspeak ranks in the top 4% of fictional language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,035 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: George Orwell[3], Ingsoc[4]
  • Instance of: controlled language[5]
  • Topic's main category: category:Newspeak[6]
  • Described at URL: https://database.conlang.org/view/?conlang=422[7]
  • Replaces: Oldspeak[8]
  • Present in work: Nineteen Eighty-Four[9]
  • Different from: Nowo Mowa[10]
  • Has list: list of Newspeak words[11]
  • Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[12]

Why It Matters

Newspeak has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] Newspeak is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . openculture.com. openculture.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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