private language

British  

noun

1. philosophy a language that is not merely secret or accidentally limited to one user, but that cannot in principle be communicated to another

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Example Sentences

Royce Heng, owner of Duke Language School, a private language institute in Bangkok, said around 180 Chinese inquire each month about visa information and courses.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023

His use of written French reaffirms that Bouabré never conceived of his art, or indeed his Bété syllabary, as a private language.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

With a nod to “Hamlet,” a mute boy and his parents in a small Wisconsin town develop a private language with their special breed of remarkable dogs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2019

There is a way in which Bloom was always speaking his own private language, and gradually publicizing that privacy on his own odd terms.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez