Jörg Rhiemeier's Conlang Pages
Some of my posts to the CONLANG Mailing List
NOTE: This list is neither complete nor exhaustive. I have only
included posts which are probably of lasting significance, and omitted
the many cursory replies on various threads I have participated in over
time. Here you can find posts about Old Albic and Germanech (much of it
now out of date, though), the futility of auxlanging, the misguidedness
of taxonomic vocabularies and other matters.
The messages are listed in chronological order in each category,
with the earliest on the top.
Table of contents
The art of conlanging
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Wittgenstein on conlanging Are conlangs "private languages"?
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Auxlangers vs. Artlangers
#2
#3
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Non-human languages
#2
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The Great Sundering
(of CONLANG and AUXLANG)
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
Auxlangs in conworlds
#2
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Was Tolkien a good conlanger?
#2
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What makes a good conlang?
#2
#3
#4
#5
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The Naturalist Manifesto revisited
#2
#3
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Of artlangs & engelangs
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Wittgenstein & 'private language'
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Linguistic knowledge and conlanging
#2
#3
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Magical languages
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Constructing plausible language evolution - two book recommendations on the subject.
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What is it we are saying in our languages?
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What criteria do you have for your own or others' languages?
#2
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Can realism be retro-fitted? On problems of diachronic conlanging.
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How do diacronic conlangers work? Discussion with BPJ.
#2
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artlangs/auxlangs/engelangs
Comments on the Gnoli triangle.
#2
#3
#4
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Efficiency/Spatial Compactness
#2
#3
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artlangs as engelangs discussion with And Rosta.
#2
#3
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Aesthetics
#2
#3
#4
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Futility of auxlangs
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Building from primitives.
On problems with closed vocabularies and loglangs.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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A proposal to bring together the conlang communities
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Conlanging and journaling
#2
#3
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Conlanging with constraints
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Wikipedia:Verifiability - Mailing lists as sources
Discussing Wikipedia's policy on conlangs.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Conlangs as art - a spin-off of the above thread.
#2
#3
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Facing mortality - what will happen to your conlangs after you have died? Discussion with Rick Harrison.
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The philosophical language fallacy
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
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Art is when someone says 'Now' -- or is it?
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Average life of a conlang
#2
#3
#4
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Juvenile fooleries
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Theory informs practice. Or not?
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Theory informs practice, again. Differences between engelanging and naturalistic artlanging; alien conlanging.
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Fictional auxlangs as artlangs
#2
#3
#4
Unnatural auxlangs
Juvenalia
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Oligosynthetic languages in nature. Comments on a misunderstanding.
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Formal vs. natural languages
#2
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Does conlanging change your sense of reality? Sapir-Whorf, once again.
#2
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Does your language have a mind of its own?
When conlanging feels more like discovery than invention.
#2
#3
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How to tell when you're conlang's complete
#2
#3
#4
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The art of conlang critique
#2
#3
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Conlang referral service for movies/games/books. Sai Emrys has an idea how to sell our conlanging skills to Hollywood.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Masculine and feminine nouns affect how one perceives objects?
More fun with Sapir and Whorf, or do German tablecloths have sex with tables?
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Arithmographic languages
#2
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Why are you constructing your language(s)?
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Dead conlangs? Or merely dormant ones?
#2
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A Conlang for Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Ideas about magical languages, e.g. in role-playing games.
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Optimizing Vocabulary. Ideas for very concise conlangs.
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Engelang with unnatural statistical properties?
#2
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"Naturalistic" for auxlangers vs artlangers? Different meanings of a word.
#2
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Problems with oligosynthesis
#2
#3
#4
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Naturalism and engelanging - reconcilable?
#2
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Licensing of Conlangs/Conworlds
#2
#3
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Question about a priori versus a posteriori artlangs - different usage of the terms between artlangers and auxlangers.
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Semi-Taxonomic Lexicon Building - reasons why the philosophical languages failed.
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Self-segregating
morphologies
#2
#3
#4
Oligosynthesis
#2
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"Best"
way to write a complete description of a language
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Tokana,
Skerre and Watakassi Become Natlangs!
An amusing research snafu in a scholarly paper, and what it
may say about conlang naturalism.
#2
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Conlangs
as Academic Evidence in Linguistic Studies What can
conlangs say about the human language faculty?
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The
Platonic
fallacy #2
A philosophical tangent.
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Langue
and parole
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Artlangs
and engelangs On conlang
classification. #2
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Conlangs
as Academic Evidence in Linguistic Studies again.
#2
#3 #4
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The
van Steenbergen Hexagon Comments on a conlang
classification
scheme. #2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
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Euroclones
- what makes a conlang one?
#2
#3
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Glossopoeia
vs. reconstruction
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Natlang
loglangs? A discussion with And Rosta.
#2
#3
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Revisiting the artlang/engelang distinction
#2
#3
Exolanging
Kēlen
#2
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Conlang fans vs. conworld fans
#2
#3
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Natlanginess of Esperanto - arguably the conlang that comes
closest to natlangs in having actual parole and not just
langue.
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Juvenalia once again.
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Re-conlangs
- are reconstructed languages conlangs?
#2
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How
to decide when language documentation is done?
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The
essence of diachronic conlanging
#2
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Conlang
confusion - what if the thing is so realistic that people
mistake it for a natlang?
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Design
Perameters for Romanization
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Roman
letter syllabaries
#2
#3
Featural
abugidas and other scriptorial matters
Syllabaries
& abugidas
#2
#3
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Do
artlangers dislike auxlangers?
#2
#3
#4
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New
Year's Thoughts - how old is our art?
#2
#3
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Neo-Eldarin
and related questions
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Another
conlang promoted to natlanghood
#2
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R2D2
language and conlangs in movies in general.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Random
Ramblings on the Process of Coining Words
#2
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Destroying
the noun/verb distinction
#2
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Speedtalks
and briefscripts with some notes on a conlang idea of
mine.
#2
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Absolute
beauty - is there such a thing at all?
#2
#3
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In
the Land of Invented Languages - comments on Arika
Okrent's book.
#2
#3
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Music
and conlanging - two quite similar arts.
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Transcription
system for Books - how to transcribe conlangs, especially
alien ones, presented in novels.
#2
#3
#4
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Non-verbose
language
#2
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True
Blood Language? On languages of vampires, elves and other
strange folk.
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Constructed
language families
#2
#3
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Conlang
classification
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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Definition
of "exolang"
#2
-
Linguistics
in Science Fiction
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Why
Brithenig ain't an engelang - more on conlang classification.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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Of
cubes and triangles - yet more on conlang classification.
#2
#3
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A
Portrait of the Conlanger as a Young Man - did we all
start when we were 12?
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Fiat
Lingua, September: Is a Collaborative Conlang Even
Possible?
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Language
design issues vs. advocacy
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Lexicon
(proportion and quantity)
#2
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Using
pre-existing conlang Roots to create a new language
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On
Creating Altlangs
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Diverging
design goals and misunderstandings
#2
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Phonetic
transcription - problems with alien languages.
#2
#3
#4
Modalities
of alien languages
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Is Esperanto Indo-European?
#2
Fiction and language families
#2
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How to evaluate a conlang
#2
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Why the Vulcans don't speak a loglang
#2
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Featural scripts
#2
#3
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The Well-Tempered Alphabet - discussion of a project in which all phonemes are equally frequent.
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Viability of loglangs for general purpose
#2
#3
#4
Liva and Kinya
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Loglangs - discussing what the term means with And Rosta.
Replies
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Use vs. description of langs
#2
#3
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Alien languages
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Who surpassed Tolkien?
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A priori and a posteriori - used differently among auxlangers and artlangers.
#2
#3
#4
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Brithening and bogolangs - art or engineering?
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Design
choices - what is a "philosophical language"?
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Bogolangs,
again
Romlangs
-
Naturalistic
Grammars
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
Fictional
vs. ...?
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Loglangs
and their goals
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Good
conlang samples are those which tell something of the
imagined language's speakers.
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More
on conlang classification
#2
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What
makes a good script?
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"A
priori" - a sore spot in conlang classification.
#2
#3
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Naturalism
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
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When
do you have a "kitchen sink language"? and other aesthetic
matters. #2
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Beauty
in conlangs
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Ideals
of concultures vs. those of their authors
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Conlangs
as model languages - how much does "completeness" matter?
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
Related
matters
#2
-
Graftlangs
and hybridlangs
#2
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Naturalistic
engelangs - a dubious concept.
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The
longer you conlang, the harder it gets
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Naturalism
vs. avant-garde
#2
#3
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How
to change a conlang
#2
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Making
and learning conlangs
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On
the proper use of conlangs in literature
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Using
IPA as orthography?
#2
#3
#4
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My
personal conlanging history
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Altlangs
-
Perfect
language - an unattainable goal.
#2
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The
modern history of conlanging - my personal conlanging history.
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Romanization
of conlangs
-
On
old projects of mine and realistic diversity in conworlds
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Lost conlangs
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On
spelling conventions in conlangs
#2
#3
Homegrown
transcription systems
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Two
scholarly works on conlangs (found on AUXLANG)
#2
#3
#4
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Irregularity
in conlangs
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In-universe conlangs
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Conlang
frame stories
#2
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Time
to develop conworlds
-
Bogolangs
and substratum theory
-
Conlang
frame stories
-
Linguistic
change in long-lived societies
#2
#3
#4
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Speculation
-
A
classification of conlangers (I didn't make it, just
commented on it)
#2
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Archlangs
- a new classification?
#2
#3
#4
#5
Conlang
classification
#2
#3
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Fantasy
auxlangs
#2
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Elven
languages (of two kinds); fiction vs. speculation
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Brainstorming
prehistoric language - the pitfall of lexical anachronisms.
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Who
was the first diachronic conlanger?
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Naturalistic conlanging - just what is naturalistic?
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Conlang
classification - an immortal subject that pops up every
now and then!
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
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Conlang
documentation and database - we cannot document them all!
#2
#3
How
many conlangers?
#2
-
A
priori vs. a posteriori, again
-
"Philosophical"
languages etc.
-
Conlang
classification once more.
#2
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Potential
Conlang Classification System
#2
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Invented philologies
-
Language
contact in conworlds
-
Novel
project: a priori or a posteriori conlang? Why I wouldn't
advice doing what Tolkien did with his Mannish tongues.
#2
#3
#4
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Conlanging
methodology issues
#2
#3
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Vita
brevis - iūdicium difficile - on projects that seem
to last forever.
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Mellifluousness
and other subjective notions
-
Mixed
scripts
-
Conlangers
and Generativism
-
Bad
scholarship can make good art
#2
#3
-
Lewis
and Tolkien
-
(Con)language
Revival
#2
#3
Modern
Gaulish text
Tursan
-
How
would you make a lostlang?
-
Future languages
-
Lost
langs and future langs
Linguistics
-
Long-range protolinguistics
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Etruscana
- is Etruscan related to Indo-European?
#2
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Nostratic
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
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The Monovocalic PIE Myth
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Celtic languages?
Also, lost languages of western Europe.
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Dubious historical linguistics
-
Distant linguistic relationships
-
Afroasiatic, Eurasiatic, etc.
-
Celtic and Afro-Asiatic?
A substratum theory discussed.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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Historical Linguistics Question
Comments on some crackpot theories.
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Indo-European family tree
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
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Interesting pre-Greek article
Discussion of Etruscan and other matters.
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Standard Average European
#2
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Old European-contact conlang. What do we know about the languages of pre-Indo-European Europe?
#2
#3
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Neanderthal and PIE - why these have nothing to do with each other.
#2
#3
#4
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Origin of human language
-
Linguistic diversity in prehistoric Europe
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
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Universal Grammar
#2
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Some speculations on prehistoric European languages
#2
#3
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Universality of discreteness - discussion with Sai Emrys.
#2
#3
#4
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Pre-Greek - what little we know: discussion with Ray Brown.
#2
#3
PIE glottalic theory
-
Language evolution - can parent languages of families continue to exist unchanged?
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Origin of PIE ablaut
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
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Click genesis
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Why there was no British Romlang
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Evolution of language: discussion with various list members.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
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Celtic
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Fairly controversial protolanguages - Uralo-Siberian, Indo-Uralic and others.
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Etruscan - poorly understood, unknown origin, unknown affiliation.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
Isolates
Methodology in historical linguistics
-
Are right-branching languages easier to parse? Also, the difference between "parsing" and "understanding".
#2
Quantum physics and the mind
Human vs.programming languages
-
Affricates
- do they pattern like places of articulation, or like
manners?
-
Celticity?
Celtic
& other myths
#2
#3
-
Which
came first, the word for "chicken" or the word for "egg"?
On language evolution.
#2
-
Ablaut diachronics - the question of the origin of
PIE ablaut, once again.
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SAE
- what is "Standard Average European?"
-
Grammatical
gender
#2
-
Onomastics
and lost languages
-
PIE
stops
#2
#3
#4
-
PIE dorsals
#2
-
Neanderthal
languages etc.
-
Proto-Sapiens
-
Human
language origins
#2
#3
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The
Mitian problem
-
"Ice age superlanguage" - linguistics journalism at its
finest: what is wrong with most long-range comparisons
-
Ejective consonants as a sign of mountain living - not really.
-
Equivalent
to Grand Master Plans in Proper Linguistics?
#2
-
On amateur scholars
-
Marking both patient and agent on verbs only if both are animate
#2
#3 (with notes on Old Albic)
-
Semantic Primes - validity and application to conlanging?
#2
-
Declining of number of noun cases in Indo-European languages.
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Resumptive Pronouns
-
Templatic Morphologies
-
On clicks
-
On Nostratic
-
Origin of ejectives
-
Typology and language shifts
-
Invading Britain - on Celtic and other matters.
-
Single origin of writing?
-
American macrofamilies
-
Split ergativity in PIE
-
No
phonology?
#2
#3
#4
-
Sapir-Whorf
test? Does that work?
#2
#3
-
Celtic
languages once again.
-
Paleo-European
languages
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Allative
and other local cases
#2
-
An
attempt at a Paleo-European overview
-
Ursprachen
- different meanings in historical linguistics and language
origins studies!
Neanderthal
languages
-
Rhaetian
language - why "Ötzi" did not speak it.
-
Relation
between culture and morphosyntax - bullfrogs!
An apology
In conlangs?
-
Numeric
systems with a few notes on the Old Albic numeral system.
Some
remarks on PIE numerals
-
Prehistory
of PIE - unknowable?
#2
-
Amerind,
Nostratic etc.
#2
-
Paleo-European
languages
#2
#3
-
Nimian
& Amerind
-
Alienable
vs. inalienable possession
#2
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Starostin
etc. on problems with long-range comparison.
#2
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Proto-languages
-
A thought on Ogham and the druidic language
-
The
Urursprache? Problems with some deep relationship
theories.
#2
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Pre-Agricultural
fricatives - bogus ideas about prehistoric languages
masquerading as science.
-
Resources
on European substrate languages
#2
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Not
using IPA for reconstructed languages
-
PIE
laryngeals
#2
#3
#4
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On
the Semantics of Mood - tense and aspect are not orthogonal.
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Language-culture
correlation - often not close.
On
reconstruction and the comparative method
-
Some
musings about Paleo-European languages
-
Etruscans
from Troy?
#2
#3
#4
#5
Macrofamilies
#2
#3
#4
Languages
without recursion
Cover symbols
-
Ablaut
origins
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
-
Another
PIE study which shows that the Indus Valley culture
probably did not speak an Indo-European language.
-
PIE
stop types
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
-
PIE
for beginners?
-
Baltlangs
- relationship between Baltic and Slavic.
-
Ancient
Egyptian - when did it lose its case system?
-
Are
my phonological rules naturalistic? Sibilants sometimes
behave differently than spirants.
#2
-
Picti
- probably not a self-designation.
#2
#3
#4
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Welsh
mutations aren't cases
#2
#3
#4
-
Narrow
and broad phone*ic transcription
#2
-
An
alternative to the glottalic theory in PIE.
#2
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Letter
names vs. sound values
-
Some
observations on apostrophes
-
Indo-Semitic
hypothesis
#2
#3
#4
-
Miscellanea Indo-Europaea
-
Pots,
genes and languages in prehistoric Europe
-
Discovering
that your conlang would be data for your thesis if it was a
natlang - a temptation to be resisted!
-
Some
speculations about the origin of PIE and its speakers
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
-
Grey
spots in PIE
#2
-
Northern
and Southern Indo-European
#2
#3
#4
#5
-
Gaelic
orthography
#2
-
Pointlessness
of English spelling reform
#2
-
Archaeo-
or Paleolinguistics?
#2
-
Thracian,
Phrygian, "Pelasgian" etc.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
-
Shibboleths
My conlangs
The Albic project
-
Degrees of volition in active languages. First post about Nur-ellen.
#2
#3
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Nur-ellen - what later was to become Albic.
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Animacy
in active languages such as Nur-ellen.
#2
#3
-
Nur-ellen universes
#2
#3
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Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig - the beginning of an ill-fated affair.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
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Nur-ellen takes on Greenberg's universals
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ELVES - why I call my conculture that.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Elves and Ill Bethisad
- why it failed to work out.
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
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Some Proto-"Quendic" grammar, i.e. early Albic grammar
#2
#3
#4
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Cases, again.
Comparing case marking of locative NPs in Greek and Old Albic.
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Nostratic, Tech and Albic
#2
#3
#4
#5
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A sketch of Old Albic: Phonology
Nominals
Verbs
Syntax
Partly out of date as several bits (e.g., the noun cases) have been
revised since then.
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Some Old Albic conculture
More
-
Degrees of volition in Old Albic
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The Babel text in Old Albic
My 500th post; now, however, out of date.
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Some Old Albic calendar and mythology stuff
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Fluid-S pivot in Old Albic
#2
#3
#4
-
Numerals in Old Albic and their etymology
-
Old Albic Update: An autosegmental view of the vowel features
#2
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Old Albic and the quest for the essence of Elvishness
- a discussion between me and Andreas Johansson what makes a language
"Elvish".
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Bronze age British languages - summary
of my thoughts on prehistoric languages in the British Isles and
western Europe.
-
Deriving vowel harmony diachronically
in Old Albic and Eric Christopherson's conlang.
-
Some Old Albic historical phonology
presented on occasion of my 1000th post.
-
Old Albic update:
Syntax of the verbal noun
#2
-
Atlantis and how it may tie in with Albic.
#2
#3
-
Old Albic update: Some notes on vowel phonology
#2
#3
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Naming systems - naming conventions in Old Albic.
-
Two
Albic-related ATLs
-
Development
of pronouns from Indo-Uralic to Albic
-
Conlang/-culture
personal naming practices Naming customs of the Elves.
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Marking
Roles Instead of Case - case marking in Old Albic, once
again.
-
Babel
Text in Old Albic - new version.
-
Two
Albic names
-
Proto-Europic
The relationship between Hesperic and Indo-European.
#2
#3
#4
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Old Albic update: Finite verbs
-
Elven
origins
-
Greet
the New Year (2013) with etymologies!
-
Of
Elves and Mountains - correcting one point in the previous
item.
#2
#3
-
Consonants
and vowels (in Ivernic).
-
Corpus language revivals; mostly about design issues in Old Albic.
-
Statistical
naturalism of alphabets - on the inworld origin of the Old
Albic script.
-
Some
Old Albic grammatical terminology
-
Essence
vs. state copulas
-
Autonyms
and demonyms - what the Elves call themselves and the Dwarves.
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Working
on "Work" - the Elves make a difference between creative
work and menial labour.
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Restrictive
vs. non-restrictive adjectives? - an idea to consider for
Old Albic.
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Conlang
Numerals - Elvish finger-bone counting and digit glyphs
based thereon.
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Case
system of Old Albic.
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Pronoun system
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Imperative
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Recalibrating
Old Albic history
-
The
End of the Elvenpath - just
an April
1st hoax!
#3
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The...the
- how Old Albic handles this.
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What
a great model this would be - about plans I have with Old
Albic and its relatives.
A
minor addendum
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"Sail"
= "wing". An etymology.
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'New'
as diminutive of 'old'
#2
#3
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Of
Elves and mountains, again. Doubts about a sound change in
Alpianic.
#2
#3
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New
findings on prehistoric Europeans and their repercussions on
my conlangs
#2
#3
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A
major restructuring of my Hesperic family
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People,
their names and grammatical genders
-
I
look, but I don't see - verbs of perception in Old Albic.
Correction
#3
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The
end of Hesperic? This time, a real moment of doubt.
#2
#3
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Morphosyntactic
alignments in the Hesperic family
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
-
A
Happy New Year, and a big chunk of doubt
#2
#3
#4
#5
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What
language did the Bell Beaker people speak?
#2
#3
-
Looking
for a new name for my linguarium
Found it!
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An
update on the "Bell Beaker language"
#2
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Miscellanea
from Atla
-
Can't
stop thinking about the Bell Beaker language...
#2
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A
find from the past pertaining to the Albic project.
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Three
Albic matters
#2
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A
blast from the past - Nur-ellen hits the web after 20
years.
#2
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Daghestanian-style
noun systems - how I plan to do it in Madeirese.
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Proto-Hesperic
revision brainstorming
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
#13
#14
#15
#16
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The International Hesperic Alphabet, Version 2
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What
to put in the dictionary - about Old Albic gender derivations.
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Monkey
business - an etymology.
#2
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Two
Old Albic words for 'child'
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Proto-Hesperic
revision brainstorming, second season
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
Roman Germanech
Miscellaneous
Comments on other people's conlangs
J. R. R. Tolkien's conlangs
Boreanesian (Kristian Jensen)
Silindion (Elliott Lash)
Tokana (Matthew Pearson)
C'ali (Tom Wier)
Plan B (Jeff Prothero) and derivatives thereof
R. A. Brown's conlangs
Briefscript
TAKE
Britainese
Stack-based languages
Sohlob (Benct Philip Jonsson)
Herman Miller's conlangs
Vassian (Daniel Benson)
Logical languages
Others
Miscellaneous topics
-
My first post to CONLANG
(OK, not of lasting value. But it was my first!)
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Conlang Typology Survey - data on Germanech and what was to become Old Albic.
Correction
-
Vowel harmony Discussion with Rob Haden; some stuff on early Albic ("Q") vowel phonology.
#2
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Elvish ideas...
Comments on Andreas Johansson's Meghean.
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The League of Lost Languages
How it all began.
More
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Machine translation interlinguae
Maybe Old Albic is good for that purpose?
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Helen Keller & Whorf-Sapir
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My answers on the 2005 Lunatic Survey
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On nerds and dreamers
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Loglang syntax
Also, problems with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and "philosophical"
languages.
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Weird case marking patterns
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Defining "Language"
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My answers on the 2008 conlang fluency survey
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Langmaker and FrathWiki
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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Comments
on a non-human language ;-)
Transcription
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Survival of minority languages - why Albic did not die out.
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"Conlang" and "Artlang" in German
Translation issues.
#2
#3
#4
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Phaistos Disk - a fake, an Atlantean artifact, or what?
My stance on Atlantis, by the way.
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A posteriori conlangs; specifically, Gallo-Hellenic.
#2
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Sidhe language and elflangs in general.
#2
#3
#4
#5
Quenya
#2
Elflangs
#2
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Natlang plausibility in artlanging. Comments on thoughts of Benct Philip Jonsson.
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Prepositional phrases as attributes
-
How do you give reality to an a priori conlang?
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Vocab Building Tricks
#2
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Diachronic conlanging and diachronic linguistics
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Oh, noes! Endangered languages! Why conlangers cannot save endangered languages, but it is also not our fault that languages die.
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Avoiding unhandled features
#2
#3
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Your first conlangs - what I did when I was younger.
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Alternative timelines: join three projects?
#2
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Proper Names in a Soundless Language
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How to make a mess of an ATL - comments on Ill Bethisad and similar projects.
#2
#3
#4
#5
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Reconstructing a "lost" language - ideas for a clichéd crackpot-style Atlantean language.
#2
#3
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Arabic without Islam
#2
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What would happen to an oligosynthetic language? If subjected to naturalistic language change, that is.
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Conlang canons
#2
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Voynich-like manuscript - an idea for a conlang riddle.
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Con-culture/religion etc. Do non-human sapients have religion? Also, some notes on Albic religion.
#2
Repugnant concultures
Non-human intelligence
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Form of Documentation of your Conlang - why the simplest solutions are usually the best.
-
Broad
or narrow usage of "phonology"? - there's more to it than
just the phoneme inventory.
-
Fantasy
conlang universals
-
Sources for vowel quantity distinctions?
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Why
I conlang
-
Language
adaptation to the environment
#2
#3
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The
colour of Elven blood and other Elven matters.
#2
#3
#4
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Volapük
- why it failed.
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Euroclones
#2
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Genealogical
classification of conlangs
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
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Importance
of good worldbuilding
#2
-
Musical
language of aliens
#2
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Can't
we say that a language is always related to a "people"? -
on language names.
-
Neanderthals
again
#2
#3
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Vulcan
language - why they shouldn't speak a loglang.
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Romanization:
digraphs vs. diacritics
-
The Legionnaires in Oz
Lewis and Tolkien
#2
#3
#4
#5
-
Open and closed universes
#2
#3
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Why
alien civilizations are probably hard to detect
-
Why
we don't need another Great Sundering
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Purpose
of formal logic?
#2
-
Elves
#2
#3
-
Conmusic
#2
-
The
Sith language - on linguistic beauty, heavy metal umlauts
and some other matters.
#2
My
LotR opera (which was never composed)
-
Fanlangs
Atlantis
#2
#3
-
Vulcan,
and alien names in general
#2
#3
-
Early conlangers
-
Call
for Papers: A Festschrift for Raymond Brown
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Ars
Glossopoetica - A Festschrift for Raymond Armar Brown
#2
#3
#4
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Time
travel - a comment on a "solution" that implies a negation
of free will.
-
Voynich
Manuscript - allegedly deciphered, but the "decipherer"
doesn't even get his terminology right!
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
Intersection
of conlanging and cryptography communities
#10
#11
#12
#13
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Western
Hellenism
#2
-
Genetics
- how much bearing does it have on linguistics?
#2
#3
-
Against
the necessity of duality of patterning - even sign
languages and logographies have "phonemes".
My
planned Quetch experiment
-
Keyboards
and homegrown transcriptions
-
Language
invention in Linguistics Pedagogy
-
An
exercse in non-font making - on a script made by Alex Fink.
-
Unreliablity
of "the Internet"
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Fun
and seriousness
#2
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