I love conlangs. They’re currently one of my favourite hobbies, and I’m slowly getting better and better at making them.
What is a conlang?
A Conlang, Constructed Language, or Invented Langauge is a language which is devised intentionally, rather than developing naturally. Some conlangs are “auxilliary languages” (invented to ease communication between people with different backgrounds) but the conlangs I make are “artlangs”, languages that exist merely for the art of having them.
I have constructed many languages over the past few years, but most of them were sketches that I kept private. In 2017, I started to make my conlanging public, and have published details on 3 languages:
- Tlueqto
- My latest conlang. It features tones, vowel harmony, and evidential marking, as well as a phonetic inventory that does not match easily onto English at all.
- dwi~
- dwi~ has no page (at the moment), as it was abandoned shortly after its invention. I came up with the writing system first – the speakers are part of a country that mysteriously appears in isolated parts of Europe, and then disappears again, so its writing system was patched together from fading memories of runes, the latin script, and Cyrillic.
- Dapiica
- My “first” conlang, spoken by amphibious lizards on a habitable moon. Highly polysynthetic and non-configurational. It includes a lot of experiments with morphemes and structure (although nothing too weird - it’s all stuff that exists in real world languages, with the exception of the circumclitic)
Some notes:
- Currently, none of these languages have enough vocabulary. I need to work on fixing that soon.
- I’ve tried to make these pages as approachable as possible, but at a certain point it becomes impractical to explain basic linguistic concepts over and over and over again. Any piece of linguistic terminology I use should be able to looked up on wikipedia, and understood fairly well, but if you have any difficulties understanding what I’ve written, let me know.