CONLANGING RESOURCES

If you have any suggestions for resources, feel free to share them in the comments, and try to provide descriptions of your resources too. Make sure to also upvote the ones you find useful!

General Resources

1. The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder. Collection of general information and tools to get started with creating constructed languages. A must for any aspiring conlanger! 1.1. LCK Resources. Resources recommended by Mark Rosenfelder.
2. Glossary of Linguistic Terms by the SIL. If you ever come across a linguistic term that you haven't heard of, you can probably find what it means in here!
3. World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) A large overview of many features of the world's languages.
4. The International Phonetic Alphabet. You don't need to know the IPA to make your own conlang, but it's a great way to refer to the sounds that you might include in your conlang.
5. Conlanging course from the MIT. A free, university level course on creating constructed languages.
6. Wikipedia Linguistics Portal. A nice gateway to lots of linguistics content on Wikipedia.
7. ConWorkShop. A conlanging community and tools website.

Phonology

1. The International Phonetic Alphabet chart.
2. The Index Diachronica. It lists sound changes by family and sound, so if you're evolving your conlang from another, it gives you a good idea on what would feel natural
3. Mark Rosenfelder's Sound Change Applier. An easy to use tool to apply sound changes to lots of words at once.

Grammar

1. List of grammatical cases. (Wikipedia)
2. Tense, aspect and mood. (Wikipedia)

Lexicon/Vocabulary

1. Lexiconga. An easy way to store your own languages' lexicons.
2. 625 Useful Words. A list of 625 useful words to add to your conlang's lexicon.
3. A Conlanger's Thesaurus. A big lexicon of all the words that you could possibly want to have in your conlang, ordered by subjects and connections between words.
4. Swadesh list. A list of words used to compare langauges. (Wikipedia) 3.1. Appendix. List of swadesh lists for many different languages. (and even some conlangs!)
5. Kinship Terminology. One of the easiest ways to introduce non-English flavour to your conlang.

Conlanging on Youtube

• Artifexian
• Babelingua
• Biblaridion
• Connor Quimby
• David Peterson
• jan Misali
• Koallary
• Lichen the Fictioneer
• Nakari Speardane

Other Communities

1. Conworkshop Events Another nice conlanging community.
2. !linguistics@mander.xyz (Kbin link). A community about general linguistics.
3. !linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works (Kbin link). A community to post memes and funnies about linguistics.
4. !worldbuilding@lemmy.world (Kbin link). A community to discuss all the other interesting facets of worldbuilding.
5. !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz (Kbin link). A community to discuss practical language learning.

Astorí!

Welcome to the fourth no longer-weekly c/conlangs post!

As you might be able to tell, as the initial hype for the community has slowed down, we've also started getting behind on the weekly posts. Sorry for that. We'll hope to be able to maintain a somewhat less ambitious bi-weekly schedule. But please keep posting your conlang things here - every post matters (to us)!

Conlangs of the Week

The conlangs of the week are the Ancient Language and Dwarvish from Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle (aka Eragon and the following books). Both these languages feature frequently in Paolini's setting and are essential to the worldbuilding and story of the setting. On the other hand, they have often been criticised for their lack of originality and lack of real rules or vocabulary. Instead, there are just lists of translated words or phrases, not even with an explanation on how to pronounce them. (Though it seems that Paolini has actually done some more leg-work to establish the languages more broadly since the books were released.)

What do you think about this method of conlanging? Would you consider relexes of English (or other irl languages) "proper" conlangs? Are relexes okay as naming languages? Or do you think that the concept of relexes are just gatekeeping?

Linguistic feature of the week

Less of a linguistic feature and more of a conlang sub-category, our subject of discussion this week are naming languages. Naming languages are conlangs made with only limited grammar and a limited vocabulary, usually just about enough to fill in a map or generate some names - often for a literary setting.

Do you use naming languages? At what point do you consider a conlang having passed the stage of "naming language"?

Post of the week

No posts this week, so no post of the week ;p

Happy conlanging everyone and thank you for joining us on c/conlangs!

Esterní!

I'll start myself: I've been quite interested in Esperanto recently, and I am thinking of starting to actually learn the language. Esperanto is just really interesting to me, because of its history and size, compared to other conlangs. I don't believe it will become the universal world language, like once was dreamed. And I do think esperanto has quite a few shortcomings when it comes to being an international auxilliary language. The reason I want to learn it is more just for that history and culture.