Conlangery Podcast
The podcast about constructed languages
Episodes
An update on my plans for the channel.
In this episode, I spoke with Gideon Henner about his language Laut, a thought experiment on how to create a language to illustrate some of the communication differences autistic people have.
Links:
I interviewed Jonathan of @levunalangs about their musical conlangs, Sdefa and Amnenas!
I have a chat with linguistics short-form creator Human1011 about his language, itræχnâħyq̇, or Draconic. We compare it to my dragon language, Ndăkaga, and discuss the challenges of making short form conlanging content.
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David and Jessie of @LangTimeStudio come on with an update on their conlangy projects.
Check out Kopikon II
Preorder Jessie’s book, How to Create a Language
William Annis has come back to the show to talk to us about subordinate clauses! This will be a broad overview of the topic, which we may dive deeper on in future episodes.
Links and resources:
Lingweenie: https://lingweenie.org/conlang/
Wikipedia on balancing and deranking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We have a special episode today. Andrea Weilgart, the daughter of W. John Weilgart, the creator of aUi, came on to discuss her father’s language and her work to continue his legacy.
I had a nice discussion with author Madeline James about how she has just begun learning conlanging to create naming languages and formulaic spells. Join us as we discuss how she focuses on limited conlangs for the needs of her story and about her journey learning the craft.
You can see a continuation of this conversation on Madeline’s channel here.
Today, ZeWei joins us to talk about their music and conlanging, as well as the Cursed Conlang Circus and more.
Jake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.
Carl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work.
Links:
- Halo (TV series)
- Omyatloko Logosyllabary for Kala
- Carl’s Blog
I interview Jessie Peterson of @LangTimeStudio about her Conlang Year project, as well as her other conlanging education and promotion projects. See Conlang Year here: https://www.quothalinguist.com/
I talked to Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.
Today, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!
- Looking at Languages by Paul Frommer and Edward Finegan
- An Annotated Dictionary of Na’vi by Stefan G. Müller
- Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues
- A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy
- Possible and Probable Languages by Frederick J. Newmeyer
George breaks down a paper that discusses ChatGPT’s supposed ability to create languages. It is not impressive.
Citations
Diamond, Justin. “Genlangs and Zipf’s Law.” ArXiv Computer Science, 2023. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.12191.pdf
De Marzo, Giordano, Francesco S...
George interviews Marc Okrand on his work on Klingon and Atlantean and his experiences with both the Klingon speaker community and the greater conlanging community.
I’m announcing a new streaming series: Tongues and Runes. You can find the first stream scheduled here.
George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter.
Links:
George interviews Biblaridion on conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.
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