Tag: conlang year

Goal: Entry for Lexember 31st Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share You’ve made it! It’s the final day of Conlang Year, and the final day of Lexember! Take a moment to reflect on all your work and appreciate what you’ve done in a short amount of time. As you celebrate your work, remember that a language is never…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 30th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share When Conlang Year ends, you don’t need to stop working or sharing your work. Keep sharing! A great way to continue sharing your work is by participating in conlang relays. You can find a conlang relay to join or even start your own.

Goal: Entry for Lexember 29th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share While you wrote a language document during the Conlang Year prompts, another way to document your language features is by describing your language using the same features typologists use for natlangs. For instance, I created a spreadsheet for Grambank features for conlangers to share their language features.…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 28th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Another idea for using your language after Conlang Year ends is to create language-learning materials, like a 501 Verbs of Your Conlang or a mock Duolingo course for your conlang. This suggestion isn’t to say that you will find an audience of language learners eager to learn…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 27th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Another way to continue using your language after Conlang Year ends is to translate texts you enjoy, whether they are excerpts from books/articles you enjoy, monologues from movies/shows, random sentences you find delightful, or bits of conversation. If you enjoy writing in your language but don’t want…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 26th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share As we wrap up this year of work, you might consider other creative pursuits for using your language. You could use your language as the basis for characters in a fictional book/story, write more original pieces to translate, make in-world art to accompany your language, create recipes…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 25th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share As you consider where to go from here when Conlang Year ends, another option for expanding your conlang is to create a dialect or two of your language. You can apply different sets of sound changes, mark particular words or phrases as dialectal, and create uses of…

Goal: Entry for Lexember 24th Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share If you want to create more languages after Conlang Year ends but don’t want to start from scratch, you could use your current language work and start a family of languages. Start with proto-forms for this language and evolve them in different ways to create sister languages.…