Idioglossia

Examples

Case studies

• Sam and Ren McEntee, 17-month-old twins.
• June and Jennifer Gibbons
• Kennedy twins of San Diego, California, who were subjected to intensive study, including an exhaustive analysis of their language.

  Media

• Twins Zarana and Zandar of the GI Joe franchise speak their own idioglossia.
• The 1994 film Nell, starring Jodie Foster, depicts a woman who speaks an idioglossia. The stage play on which it is based is also called Idioglossia.
• The concept album The Perfect Element, Part I, by Pain of Salvation, is centered on a song titled "Idioglossia".
• James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake was written using an idioglossia.
• Skins Series 3 Episode 9 shows Katie and Emily Fitch using an idioglossia.
• Sherri and Terri on The Simpsons sometimes use an idioglossia.
• The two teenage protagonists of the film Disco Pigs, Darren and Sinéad, use an idioglossia.
• Singer, musician, and composer Lisa Gerrard sings many of her songs in an idioglossia that she has developed since the age of twelve.
• Some parts of Coil track Batwings is in an idioglossia that invented by John Balance. Peter Christopherson described it as "a language that only he knows".
• The twin brothers Jim and Tim Possible from the Disney Channel series Kim Possible often use twinspeak.
• Twins Marilyn and Carolyn Arnold from The Baby-Sitters Club book series used this early on.
• In the 2005 episode "Identity", teenage twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton speak to each other in twin language while both are being interrogated in a murder investigation by Detectives Stabler and Benson. Detective Stabler recognizes their language as "twin speak" because he himself is the father of twins and remarks that his twins had their own language when they were young as well.
• In the 2010 American Dad! episode "Son of Stan", Steve and his temporarily created clone, Steve-arino, were briefly seen using an idioglossia in speaking to each other.
• In episode 212 of television show Rules of Engagement, twins attending a party speak in twin language and state that twins often have their own language that only they can understand.
• The television series Second Chance have twin sister and brother Mary and Otto Goodwin who sometimes use twin speak to communicate with each other.
• In the series finale of The Office, Angela Martin and her sister Rachael Martin use twin speak at Angela's bachelorette party.