DoggoLingo
Internet language of words used to refer to doggos
DoggoLingo is an Internet "language" that is created from word conversion, meme lexicon, and onomatopoeia. Emerging in the 2010s, DoggoLingo is implied to be a dog's own idiom, and is presented as a canine's thought process. Elyse Graham, assistant professor at Stony Brook University, describes DoggoLingo as "upbeat, joyful, and clueless in a relentlessly friendly way".
Structure and usage
DoggoLingo appends various diminutive suffixes "-o", "-er", "-ino" to existing English words (e.g. dog turns into doggo, pup turns into pupper) as well as DoggoLingo words that have been created (e.g. pupper turns into pupperino). DoggoLingo relies heavily upon onomatopoeia: Words such as mlem or blep describe the action of a dog sticking out its tongue, or other forms of facial expression.
Much like a creole language, DoggoLingo follows a similar rudimentary style to create its verbs (e.g. doin me a in place of present participles with the speaker as object, such as doin me a scare "scaring me") and adjectives (e.g. heckin in place of degree modifiers such as extremely).
“DoggoLingo” enters the record as internet language of words used to refer to doggos. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what DoggoLingo, Internet and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60775084. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “DoggoLingo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.