Language Creation

Language Creation

Language Creation Links

• Essays on Artificial Language Design A collection of writings on language design. "Lexical Semantics", a revolutionary essay on the subject, is a must-see for all conlang enthusiasts!
  
  
• Proposed Guidelines for the Design of an Optimal Auxiliary Language - Article by Richard K. Harrison Revised edition of an article discussing the design factors to be considered in creating an artificial language for global communication. (8th draft, 1996)
  
• The Conlang FAQ "Eeverything you ever wanted to know about making up your own language, and more."
  
• How to Create a Language An article written by Pablo David Flores, the creator of many fictional languages. Article is based on Mark Rodenfelder's "Language Construction Kit"
  
• A Secret Revealed - Introduction to Glossopoiesis Article by Tommaso R. Donnarumma about constructed languages and issues of language creation. Categories of conlangs covered includes Game languages, IALs, Fictional languages, Scale-model languages, Philosophical and Logical languages, and Artistic languages. Also lists useful conlang resources.
  
• Lang Game: by Decker Language creation game presided and run by Decker. Five phases. Details to join.
  
• How to Build a Language A general overview of many constructed language. Introduction. Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Occidental, Basic English, Novial, Interglossa and Glosa, Interlingua, Loglan and Lojban, Neo, Klingon. Also a personal analysis, conclusion, footnotes and postnotes.
  
• Glossopoiesis Tommaso R. Donnarumma's "Glossopoiesis" pages, featuring an introduction to invented languages as well as resources about the author TRD's own conlangs.
  
• English Word Frequency List - by Adam Kilgarriff Data about word frequency for designers of artificial languages.
  
• Language creation: Pablo Flores Languages Introduction and brief description by Pablo Flores of the many fictional languages he has created like G'amah, Wamen, Biyuron, Ciravesu, Curco, Draseléq, Ukhik, Knarwaz, Pantato, Shkanshej, Tomoulini Ganmaa, as well as languages created by many others.
  
• Can Language Reflect Reality? An Artticle by Max Black Ph.D. Can an artificial language be designed to reflect reality better than natural languages do? Excerpt from "The Labyrinth of Language"
  
• Language Construction Kit Mark Rosenfelder offers useful suggestions, examples and guidelines for creating a language. The site includes links to a few online invented language projects.
  
• LangMaker.com Invent your own language. Resources: FAQ, Modlank links, other links, Babel Text, book list. Site features many personal languages, featured International Auxiliary Languages (IALs) and constructed languages (conlangs).Also "How To" newsletter. Archives.
  
• Claudio T. Gnoli: Creazione e utopia - Le lingue artificiali dal Seicento a oggi Long article about the world of constructed languages by Claudio T. Gnoli (In Italian with English version coming soon)