Conlangery #08: Kinship Terms

July 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We talk about kinship terminology: what kinds of kinship schemes exist in reality, how they are related to family structure and marriage customs, and where you can find resources to give you ideas about these concepts.  We also talk a little about Tepa (which I mispronounce a couple of times in the episode, it should be [teva]), a conlang from someone who studies American languages and decided to make one.

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Featured Conlang: Tepa

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Conlangery #07: Word Creation

July 18, 2011 by 5 Comments

George says: check out the LCS Podcast interview of Sheri Wells-Jensen.  Meanwhile, on this side of the conlanging podosphere (literally, the other side, there are only two podcasts), we talk a little about how you can fill out that lexicon with words.  And after that we talk about a language whose creator apparantly decided not to bother too much with words.

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Featured Conlang: Toki Pona

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Conlangery #06: Linguistic Typology

July 11, 2011 by 7 Comments

We talk at length about linguistic typology and all the weird and wonderful tendencies that human languages seem to have.  We also talk a little on Láadan, the language for women that our own token woman isn’t too fond of (philosophy-wise, anyway).

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Featured Conlang: Láadan

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Conlangery #05: Scripts and Writing

July 4, 2011 by 7 Comments

We’re back to talk about scripts: what kind of script to use, how con-history fits into it, tips for developing a realistic script, etc.  Then we talk about a language that, while not having a unique writing system per se, has incorporated existing systems in an interesting way.

Featured Conlang: Rangyayo (see here, here and here)

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