New Video: Ndăkaga, the Voice of the Dragons

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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… Read more »

Conlangery Has a Bouba

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery165.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreJake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.

Carl Buck on Conlanging for Halo

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery164.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreCarl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work. Links:

Jessie Peterson’s Conlang Year

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery163.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreI 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/

Interview with Artifexian

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery162.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreI talked to  Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.

Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery161.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!

New Videoː Roll for Vowelsǃ

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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: 

Can ChatGPT Create a Language?

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery159.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge 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… Read more »

Marc Okrand on Klingon and Conlanging

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery158.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge interviews Marc Okrand on his work on Klingon and Atlantean and his experiences with both the Klingon speaker community and the greater conlanging community.