The phrase 'imaginary language' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a constructed language, such as Esperanto, that has been made up for a fictional purpose. For example, "In the book, the characters spoke an imaginary language that no one had ever heard before."
An article titled "The Speed of Thought" noted remarkable similarities between Ithkuil and an imaginary language cooked up by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein for his novella "Gulf," from 1949.
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"[Codex Seraphinius] is an imaginary world with its own imaginary language," explain Kamil and Pa, the duo behind VolvoxLabs.
Luigi speaks an imaginary language, inadvertently slaps Queen Victoria in the face -- literally so -- and turns out to be an expert mixologist.
As H. Neville Davies argues, Godwin's imaginary language is more perfect than for instance More's in one aspect: it is spoken on the entire Moon and has not suffered from the Earthly dispersion of languages caused by the fall of the Tower of Babel.
(One sees at last the point of the apparently imaginary languages used in the Cirque du Soleil shows).
However, the recent demand from the film and television industry for realistic-sounding imaginary languages has given linguists with a flair for fictitious tongues the opportunity to turn a hobby into a profession.
In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
Lot 129 is entitled "Autoportrait", a volume illustrated only with manuscript lines and in an imaginary script and language that is quite indecipherable.
P. Cornelius, in a study of invented languages in imaginary travel accounts from the 17th and 18th centuries, proposes that a perfect, rationally organised language is indicative of the Enlightenment's rationalism.
New and abstract terrains, visual languages, and imaginary environments nod to interstellar travel and perhaps even science fiction in the intricate ink illustrations of musician and artist Brandon Locher.
