новомова

Ukrainian

Etymology

нови́й (novýj) +‎ -о- (-o-) +‎ мо́ва (móva), literally “neolanguage”; calque of English Newspeak, from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [nɔwɔˈmɔʋɐ]

Noun

новомо́ва • (novomóva) f inan (genitive новомо́ви, uncountable)

Newspeak (from George Orwell's "1984")
(figuratively) similar language practice of totalitarian regimes

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2019), “новомо́ва”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 10 (на́ступ – о́бміль), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
“новомо́ва”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

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