anti-language

American  

[an-tahy-lang-gwij, an-tee-] / ˌæn taɪˈlæŋ gwɪdʒ, ˌæn ti- /

noun

plural

anti-languages

1. Linguistics. a specific variety of a language that is used by members of a subculture to communicate with each other while hiding their meaning from outsiders; cryptolect.

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adjective

1. opposed to or against language.

Example Sentences

Barthes writes in his book A Lover’s Discourse that “I love you” is an anti-language, a phrase “without nuance”, stripped of the usual “armoury of meaning”.

From The Guardian

But otherwise, says Susie Dent, there's "not that much" of an anti-language in Britain.

From BBC

The sound is an anti-language, a gust of obliterating noise from below that is designed precisely to subvert the process whereby words arrive as ideas at their destination in people's brains.

From Time Magazine Archive