Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it's described as being "the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year." Orwell included an essay about it in the form of an appendix in which the basic principles of the language are explained. Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suits the totalitarian regime of the Party, whose aim is to make any alternati… (More on Newspeak)