Nadsat
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Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of -teen as in thirteen (, ). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.
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- Language.name
- Nadsat
- Language.fam1
- Constructed languages
- Language.fam2
- Artistic languages
- Language.fam3
- Fictional languages
- Language.creator
- Anthony Burgess
- Language.created
- 1962
- Language.setting
- A Clockwork Orange (novel and film)
- Language.script
- Latin script
- Language.iso3
- none
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.ietf
- art-x-nadsat
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- database.conlang.org/view/?conlang=403
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- Description
- Function
- Russian influences
- Other influences
- Word derivation by common techniques
- Rhyming slang
- See also
- References
- General bibliography
- External links
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English. The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of -teen as in thirteen (, ). Nadsat was also used in Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the book.
== Description ==