micronational language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micronational languages
Etymology: From micronational + language.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore there is (or was) *Aeldarspragk* (by Dale Morris). I'm not sure in how far this is really a conlang. It seems to be a variant of Old Saxon but used as a micronational language. Link is dead.
ref: 2002 September 6, Jan van Steenbergen, “Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?”, in Conlang Mailing List Archive, archived from the original on 29 May 2025:
text: The most impressive micronational language, IMO, is Talossan, which seems very much like a natural language. It's a Romance language, you might like it.
ref: 2003 May 6, Garth Wallace, “Aesthetic qualities of conlangs”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
text: I don't know how easy it is to operate, but you could also look at existing micronational languages.
ref: 2007 May 13, Padraic Brown, “Micronational conlangs”, in alt.language.artificial (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
text: Related to these are micronational languages, languages supposedly spoken in micronations […] Perhaps the most developed micronational language is Talossan, connected with the Kingdom of Talossa (located partly in Milwaukee). It has been provided with more than 35,000 words.
ref: 2018 June 25, Alan Reed Libert, “Artificial Languages”, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics, →DOI, page 6:
text: Circumnavigators have created fantasy conlangs, alien conlangs, conlangs for Bronze Age peoples, conlangs for futuristic humans, altlangs, micronational languages, personal languages, and jokelangs.
ref: 2019 August 11, ‪Khemehekis, “Re: What kind of conlanger are you?”, in ‬The CBB‪, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
text: I think having your own micronational language is a pretty cool idea one I'm even thinking of implementing but the problem come[s] in the form of will people want to take the time to learn it is the question
ref: 2023 February 8, u/HighKingPhantomheart, “Micronational Languages”, in r/micronations, Reddit, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2025:
text: This very informative Wikipedia page lists another six minor categories: controlled languages (e.g. Basic English or Globish), visual languages (Blissymbols and Gestuno), ritual languages (e.g. Eskayan), alternative languages (Brithenig and Wenedyk), micronational languages (Talossan) and personal languages (e.g. Lingua Ignota or Balaibalan).
ref: 2024 August 8, Paolo Coluzzi, “Esperanto, Klingon and Toki Pona: evaluating non-speaker perceptions of the orthographic and phonological characteristics of three popular constructed languages”, in International Journal of Multilingualism, →DOI, page 14:
text: Listed below is also additional information on each micronational language that is featured; in which micronation—and macronation—it originates, its dialects (if applicable), and the languages that it is based on or influenced by.
ref: 2025, Zabëlle Skye-Greys, The Lord's Prayer in Thirteen Micronational Languages, Institute of Micropatriological Research, page 1:
glosses: A constructed language created for use within a micronation; a micronational conlang.
Hyponyms: Talossan