ludling.
A linguistic system that alters the forms (but not their meanings) of a source language via simple phonological and/or morphological transformations, such as affixation, reduplication, truncation, phoneme substitution, syllable transposition, etc.
Meaning & usage
A linguistic system that alters the forms (but not their meanings) of a source language via simple phonological and/or morphological transformations, such as affixation, reduplication, truncation, phoneme substitution, syllable transposition, etc.
Where this word comes from
Blend of Latin ludus (“play; game”) + a clipping of Latin lingua (“language”). The term was first introduced by Donald Laycock (1972).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.