Newspeak

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English

Etymology

new +‎ speak, coined by George Orwell in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-four.

Proper noun

Newspeak

1. The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc in the novel Nineteen Eighty-four (George Orwell, 1949). Designed to restrict the words, and hence the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.
2. A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

Translations

fictional language

• Bulgarian: новговор (bg) (novgóvor) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新語 (cmn), 新语 (cmn) (xīnyǔ)

• Esperanto: novparolo (eo)
• Finnish: uuskieli (fi)
• French: novlangue (fr) f
• Georgian: ახალმეტყველება (ka) (axalmetqveleba)
• German: Neusprech (de) n
• Hungarian: újbeszél (hu)
• Icelandic: nýlenska (is)
• Italian: neolingua (it)

• Japanese: ニュースピーク (ja) (nyūsupīku)
• Korean: 신어 (ko) (sineo)
• Lithuanian: naujakalbė (lt) f
• Norwegian: nytale (no)
• Polish: nowomowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: novilíngua (pt)
• Russian: новояз (ru) (novojáz) m
• Serbo-Croatian: новоговор (sh) (novogovor) m
• Slovene: novorek (sl)
• Spanish: neolengua (es)

Noun

Newspeak (usually uncountable; plural Newspeaks)

1. Alternative spelling of newspeak.

Translations

newspeak — see newspeak

See also

• Franglais
• Globish
• Hinglish
• spin