Loxian is an artistic language and alphabet created by writer and lyricist Roma Ryan for Enya’s 2005 album Amarantine. The language is featured in three songs on the album (Less than a Pearl, The River Sings, and Water Shows the Hidden Heart). The term apparently derives from the Greek Loxos, meaning oblique.

Ryan created the language when she found herself unable to create satisfactory lyrics in English, Irish or Latin for some of Enya’s songs. She came up with the idea after having worked with Tolkien’s fictional Elvish languages while writing lyrics in these languages for one of Enya’s tracks, recorded for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack in 2001.