Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 29, 2014 5:23:48 GMT
Resources for Constructed Languages
The following links were provided by LillianAltair. Original text is reproduced, except for slight edits to standardize link format. Links that no longer work have been removed.
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The following links were provided by LillianAltair. Original text is reproduced, except for slight edits to standardize link format. Links that no longer work have been removed.
- About World Languages - You can browse individual languages or language families. The individual language pages give you the vowels and consonants, a bit of vocab, and the numbers 1-10. Will also provide the way the language is written if available.
- Omniglot - For writing systems. Not only has the writing systems of actual languages but a multitude of conlangs as well.
- The Language Construction Kit - Also available in print, which I highly recommend getting. Mark Rosenfelder created at least two languages (after a quick skim of the intro) and multiple dialects, including an ancestral language to one of his modern ones. The book also contains a complete reference grammar for one of his languages to show how it's done.
- Conlangery.com - A podcast about conlangs ^_^
- The Universal's Archive. - Universals in language that seem rather odd but apparently exist. Mentioned on the 6th Conlangery podcast was something along the lines of if a case system exists, adjectives tend to be more noun-like than verb-like, ie: The couch is red, rather than the couch reds.
- The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
- BBCode table generator. - (Originally posted during v4, but Proboards v5 takes care of some of this.)
- Pronouns by case
- Relationship chart
- Building Grammar - Don't mean to scare away any conlangers, but this is a good general list of stuffs to include in a finalized grammar. It's by no means complete, but could help guide baby-steps or normal/giant steps of making a conlang, such as 'today I'm going to work on noun declination' or 'today I'm going to work out verb conjugation'.
- Glossary Tutorial - Also good to have is a glossary (gloss) of your language. Have a tutorial!
If you have any more resources you'd like to have included in this list, please post with name of the resource, a link, and a short description. Alternatively, you can PM an admin or mod with the information and one of us will add it for you.
We will be editing this post as and when we receive new entries, for readability.