Newspeak

See also: newspeak

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Newspeak

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.
(computer languages) A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.

Derived terms

Translations

fictional language

Bulgarian: новговор m (novgóvor)
Catalan: novaparla f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 新語 (zh), 新语 (zh) (xīnyǔ), 新話 (xīnhuà), 新话
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

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)

Alternative spelling of newspeak

Translations

newspeak — see newspeak

See also

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