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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private language

But the characters do, sharing a private language of family dysfunction and unexpressed anguish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

These are worthy investments in children’s education, especially those who live in school districts that haven’t been able to launch dual-language programs, and those whose families can’t afford private language instruction.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

“The 32,” as they are often called throughout the book, speak an unknown private language, hang around public places and at first appear similar to the young mendicants the city is used to dealing with.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2020

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

Espanol: the language that seemed to me a private language.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez