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Pravic is a fictional language used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed,...

Pravic is a fictional language used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Pravic is a fictional constructed language: in the book, it is said to have been constructed by a person named Farigv. Pravic is spoken on the planet Anarres, where followers of the philosopher Laia Asieo Odo chose to be exiled in order to achieve the goal of a functioning anarchic society. Anarres is actually the semi-desertic moon of Odo's homeworld Urras. As far as we know, the only language spoken widely in Anarres is Pravic, though the few people that have contact with Urras (mostly trade officials and scientists) also speak Iotic, the language of Urras's dominant nation A-Io. The anarchist philosophical premise produces some interesting linguistic phenomena, mentioned in passing by the author. For example, since private property does not exist, the possessives ("my", "your", etc) are usually avoided and replaced by the more general definite article ("the"). Equality of the sexes follows automatically from Odo's principles, and thus there is no word in Pravic for what a man does to a woman (or viceversa) during mutually consented sex: there is just an