Newspeak

See also: newspeak

English

Etymology

new +‎ speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his 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 thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania.
2. (computer languages) A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

Derived terms

• fanspeak
• newspeak

Translations

fictional language

• Bulgarian: новго́вор m (novgóvor)
• Catalan: novaparla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新語／新语 (zh) (xīnyǔ), 新语 (zh) (xīnyǔ), 新話／新话 (xīnhuà), 新话 (Xīnhuà)

• Czech: newspeak m
• Esperanto: novparolo
• Finnish: uuskieli (fi)
• French: novlangue (fr) f
• Georgian: ახალმეტყველება (axalmeṭq̇veleba)
• German: Neusprech (de) n
• Hebrew: שיחדש (he) m (siaḥadásh)
• Hungarian: újbeszél (hu)
• Icelandic: nýlenska
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: neolingua
• Japanese: ニュースピーク (nyūsupīku)
• Korean: 신어 (ko) (sineo)
• Lithuanian: naujakalbė f
• Norwegian: nytale
• Polish: nowomowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: novilíngua
• Russian: новоя́з (ru) m (novojáz)
• Serbo-Croatian: новоговор m (novogovor)
• Slovene: novorek
• Spanish: neolengua
• Swedish: nyspråk (sv) n

Noun

Newspeak (usually uncountable, plural Newspeaks)

1. Alternative spelling of newspeak

Translations

newspeak — see newspeak

See also

• Franglais
• Globish
• Hinglish
• political correctness
• spin