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Oldspeak
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English
Etymology
From en old speak, en George Orwell 1949 1 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Proper noun
en fiction en Standard English.
en Zui Controlled Languages — Newspeak The Language Closet https://thelanguagecloset.com/2020/08/08/controlled-languages-newspeak/ 2020-08-08 Newspeak words are divided into three classes, A for words denoting functional concepts of everyday life like eating, and sleeping, preserving many Oldspeak words. https://web.archive.org/web/20250823235010/https://thelanguagecloset.com/2020/08/08/controlled-languages-newspeak/ 23 August 2025
Noun
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en oldspeak.
en terms derived from Nineteen Eighty-Four
en Artificial languages Languages