The product of ten months of livestreams and many hours refining words, grammar, and fonts, Ndăkaga is my version of D&D’s Draconic language. I’m using this language to create spell incantations for arcane spellcasters that you can use in your own games. Stay tuned for updates. Also, stay tuned for my next project, Sylvan, the language of the Fae, used by druids and rangers for their spells.
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Jake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.
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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
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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/
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I talked to Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.
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Today, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!
I’ve been hard at work on my dice system for creating conlangs for TTRPGs. Here is a draft of how I would roll a vowel system. If you want to play with the system yourself, you can get a copy of the PDF rules and a playingcards.io virtual tabletop here.
Resources to learn more:
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Resources mentioned:
- 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
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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 Sylos Labini, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are the Greatest Structures in the Universe?” Astronomy & Astrophysics 651 (July 2021): A114. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141081.
Gabaix, X. “Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 3 (August 1, 1999): 739–67. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556133.
Li, Wentian. “Analyses of Baby Name Popularity Distribution in U.S. for the Last 131 Years.” Complexity 18, no. 1 (September 2012): 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21409.
Wang, Ding, Haibo Cheng, Ping Wang, Xinyi Huang, and Gaopeng Jian. “Zipf’s Law in Passwords.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12, no. 11 (November 2017): 2776–91. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2017.2721359.
Links
The Tweet that stared this: https://twitter.com/JPSoucy/status/1638747703332175872?s=20 Genlangs and Zipf’s law data https://github.com/Justin-Diamond/genlangs-and-zipfs
Law brief article https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/
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