romlang

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of Romance +‎ conlang.

Noun[edit]

romlang (plural romlangs)

  1. (linguistics, conlanging) A constructed language created as a hypothetical descendant of Latin.
    • 2018 October 3, Jörg Rhiemeier, “A Farewell to Romlangs”, in Jörg Rhiemeier's Conlang Pages[1]:
      There are now so many Romance conlangs that anyone who works on his own has to ask himself, "Do we really need another Romance conlang?" He should only carry on if he has a brilliant idea of his own, and as we shall see below, there is not much room for that in romlangs.