11 Facts About Newspeak

Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.

In "The Principles of Newspeak", the appendix to the novel, Orwell explains that Newspeak follows most of the rules of English grammar, yet is a language characterised by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning.

Newspeak has considerable similarities to the system of Basic English proposed by Charles Kay Ogden in 1930.

Political purpose of Newspeak is to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent in ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak.

Intellectual purpose of Newspeak is to make all anti-Ingsoc thoughts "literally unthinkable" in terms of words.

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The linguistic simplification of Oldspeak into Newspeak was realised with neologisms, the elimination of ideologically undesirable words, and the elimination of the politically unorthodox meanings of words.

The limitations of Newspeak's vocabulary enabled the Party to effectively control the population's minds, by allowing the user only a very narrow range of spoken and written thought; hence, words such as: crimethink, doublethink, and Ingsoc communicated only their surface meanings.

Newspeak words are classified by three distinct classes: the A, B, and C vocabularies.

Newspeak is supposed to make this effort a conscious purpose:.

In spoken and written Newspeak, suffixes are used in the elimination of irregular conjugations:.

Novel says that the Ministry of Truth uses a jargon "not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words" for its internal memos.