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Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 35: You Need a Conlang
George wants to talk to writers, filmmakers, and creatives about how conlangs can benefit worldbuilding, and how you can go about getting one made.
Links:
Language Creation Society Resources PageLCS Jobs Board
Original Script
In this episode, I want to talk to authors, directors, and other creatives who are creating fictional worlds and cultures where a conlang might be really helpful for their work. I am going to talk to you about how creating a conlang or hiring a conlanger to create a conlang can help you add depth to your world and...
2021-01-2520 minConlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 35: You Need a ConlangGeorge wants to talk to writers, filmmakers, and creatives about how conlangs can benefit worldbuilding, and how you can go about getting one made.
Links:
Language Creation Society Resources PageLCS Jobs Board
Original Script
In this episode, I want to talk to authors, directors, and other creatives who are creating fictional worlds and cultures where a conlang might be really helpful for their work. I am going to talk to you about how creating a conlang or hiring a conlanger to create a conlang can help you add depth to your world and...
2021-01-2520 min
Podcast – Conlangery PodcastShort: Musings on Etymology
George uses some research into the etymology of coronavirus to launch into a way to build a story around the etymology of a word.
Links and Resources:
Coronavirus on WikipediaAlmeida JD, Berry DM, Cunningham CH, Hamre D, Hofstad MS, Mallucci L, McIntosh K, Tyrrell DA (November 1968). “Virology: Coronaviruses”. Nature. 220 (5168): 650. Bibcode:1968Natur.220..650.. doi:10.1038/220650b0Tyrrell DA, Fielder M (2002). Cold Wars: The Fight Against the Common Cold. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN978-0-19-263285-2.
Original Script
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages, and the people who create them, I’m George Corley...
2020-11-1622 minConlangery PodcastShort: Musings on EtymologyGeorge uses some research into the etymology of coronavirus to launch into a way to build a story around the etymology of a word.
Links and Resources:
Coronavirus on WikipediaAlmeida JD, Berry DM, Cunningham CH, Hamre D, Hofstad MS, Mallucci L, McIntosh K, Tyrrell DA (November 1968). “Virology: Coronaviruses”. Nature. 220 (5168): 650. Bibcode:1968Natur.220..650.. doi:10.1038/220650b0Tyrrell DA, Fielder M (2002). Cold Wars: The Fight Against the Common Cold. Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN978-0-19-263285-2.
Original Script
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages, and the people who create them, I’m George Corley...
2020-11-1622 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 146: LangTime StudioGeorge brings on David J Peterson and Jesse Sams to talk about their new livestreaming adventure, LangTime Studio.
Top of Show Greeting: Nekāchti
Transcript
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{00:00:00}
{Greeting}
{Music}
George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. In plague-ridden California we’ve got David J. Peterson.
David: {Clears throat several times} We have who?
George: What?
David: I mean, you weren’t even going to say the “illustrious,” the “respectable,” uh, the “fragrant”?
George: It’s probably not actually a good joke to be using beca...
2020-04-061h 06Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery 146: LangTime Studio
George brings on David J Peterson and Jesse Sams to talk about their new livestreaming adventure, LangTime Studio.
Top of Show Greeting: Nekāchti
Transcript
Conlangery146.pdfDownload
Conlangery146.txtDownload
{00:00:00}
{Greeting}
{Music}
George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. In plague-ridden California we’ve got David J. Peterson.
David: {Clears throat several times} We have who?
George: What?
David: I mean, you weren’t even going to say the “illustrious,” the “respectable,” uh, the “fragrant”?
George: It’s probably not actually a good joke to be using beca...
2020-04-061h 06
Conlangery PodcastConlangery 146: LangTime StudioGeorge brings on David J Peterson and Jesse Sams to talk about their new livestreaming adventure, LangTime Studio. Top of Show Greeting: Nekāchti Transcript {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. In plague-ridden California we’ve got David J. Peterson. David: {Clears... Read more »
2020-04-061h 06Conlangery PodcastConlangery 144: Conlanging for Dungeons and DragonsGeorge brings on two conlanger DMs, Joey Windsor and David J Peterson, to discuss how to incorporate conlanging into Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games.
Top of Show Greeting: Boral (by Jack Keynes)
Links and Resources:
The 5E d20 Standard Reference DocumentMatt Colville’s YouTube channelThe ChainMatt Colville speaking “Gith”D&D BeyondShadowrunA list of role-playing games
Transcript
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Greeting: Nos som Ideologofaction, l’astravocal lengaç costroit e lour y ci hom realisour partenent.
/no ˈsɔm ˌideoˌlogofakˈʦjɔn | ˌlastʀavoˈkal lɛnˌgaʦ kosˈtʀɔjt e ˌl...
2020-02-031h 13Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery 144: Conlanging for Dungeons and Dragons
George brings on two conlanger DMs, Joey Windsor and David J Peterson, to discuss how to incorporate conlanging into Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games.
Top of Show Greeting: Boral (by Jack Keynes)
Links and Resources:
The 5E d20 Standard Reference DocumentMatt Colville’s YouTube channelThe ChainMatt Colville speaking “Gith”D&D BeyondShadowrunA list of role-playing games
Transcript
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{00:00:00}
Greeting: Nos som Ideologofaction, l’astravocal lengaç costroit e lour y ci hom realisour partenent.
/no ˈsɔm ˌideoˌlogofakˈʦjɔn | ˌlastʀavoˈkal lɛnˌgaʦ kosˈtʀɔjt e ˌl...
2020-02-031h 13Conlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 32: Lexember ThemesGeorge talks a little bit about how choosing a theme for Lexember can be helpful for your conlanging. Original script Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. I went on social media recently to ask what people wanted covered before Lexember and got some great... Read more »
2019-12-0120 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 32: Lexember Themes
George talks a little bit about how choosing a theme for Lexember can be helpful for your conlanging.
Original script
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley.
I went on social media recently to ask what people wanted covered before Lexember and got some great suggestions. The one that I’m going to cover today is creating your words based on a theme. Many lexember entrants do themes throughout the month or follow lists of prompt words from places like ConWorkShop, and...
2019-12-0120 minConlangery PodcastConlangery Shorts 32: Lexember ThemesGeorge talks a little bit about how choosing a theme for Lexember can be helpful for your conlanging.
Original script
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley.
I went on social media recently to ask what people wanted covered before Lexember and got some great suggestions. The one that I’m going to cover today is creating your words based on a theme. Many lexember entrants do themes throughout the month or follow lists of prompt words from places like ConWorkShop, and...
2019-12-0120 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 143: Music of AeniithMargaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan Transcript {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. With... Read more »
2019-10-0748 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery 143: Music of Aeniith
Margaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8.
Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan
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{00:00:00}
{Greeting}
{Music}
George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about
constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. With
me in Hawaii, we have Margaret Ransdell-Green.
Margaret: Hello.
George: Also, Eric Barker.
Eric: Nice to be here.
George: Yes. All right. So, if you have listened to –
what is it – Conlangery 140, I think, where we covered the 8th Language
Cr...
2019-10-0748 minConlangery PodcastConlangery 143: Music of AeniithMargaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8.
Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan
Transcript
PDFDownload
Plain TextDownload
{00:00:00}
{Greeting}
{Music}
George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about
constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. With
me in Hawaii, we have Margaret Ransdell-Green.
Margaret: Hello.
George: Also, Eric Barker.
Eric: Nice to be here.
George: Yes. All right. So, if you have listened to –
what is it – Conlangery 140, I think, where we covered the 8th Language
Cr...
2019-10-0748 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 30: Revising a Grammar
George spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers.
You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes below.
istatikii-phonproc-draft1Download
istatikii-phonproc-draft2Download
Script below the fold, see the history here.
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. I’m making a short for this month, due to some scheduling issues for our planned episode. Before we get on with the...
2019-06-0311 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 30: Revising a GrammarGeorge spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers.
You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes below.
istatikii-phonproc-draft1Download
istatikii-phonproc-draft2Download
Script below the fold, see the history here.
Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. I’m making a short for this month, due to some scheduling issues for our planned episode. Before we get on with the...
2019-06-0311 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduate
George reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics.
Script below the fold:
Welcome
to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who
create them. I’m George Corley, and we’re back! We’re going to have a short
episode today, just to catch y’all up on what I’ve been doing while I was gone
and maybe to give me a chance to be a little reflective.
As
I write this, I have submitted the final version of my dissert...
2019-02-0107 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduateGeorge reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics.
Script below the fold:
Welcome
to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who
create them. I’m George Corley, and we’re back! We’re going to have a short
episode today, just to catch y’all up on what I’ve been doing while I was gone
and maybe to give me a chance to be a little reflective.
As
I write this, I have submitted the final version of my dissert...
2019-02-0107 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy PhoneticsGeorge gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month.
ORIGINAL SCRIPT:
There is a tendency in the conlanging community to hew toward more narrow, standardized definitions of terms than among linguists. There have been a few times when someone has criticized me on a use of a term that I defined in the text where they felt another term fit. This is most obvi...
2018-04-1419 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy PhoneticsGeorge gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month.
ORIGINAL SCRIPT:
There is a tendency in the conlanging community to hew toward more narrow, standardized definitions of terms than among linguists. There have been a few times when someone has criticized me on a use of a term that I defined in the text where they felt another term fit. This is most obvi...
2018-04-1419 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #27: #Lexember 2017 Wrap-upGeorge discusses last year’s Lexember and some of the things that came out of that. Also, help us correct our transcripts on the Conlang Sources Wiki.
What we reblogged on Tumblr.
The Conlangery Twitter account. (Sorry, twitter search is bad, so I can’t conveniently direct you just to Lexember retweets.)
2018-01-1316 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #27: #Lexember 2017 Wrap-upGeorge discusses last year’s Lexember and some of the things that came out of that. Also, help us correct our transcripts on the Conlang Sources Wiki.
What we reblogged on Tumblr.
The Conlangery Twitter account. (Sorry, twitter search is bad, so I can’t conveniently direct you just to Lexember retweets.)
2018-01-1316 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #108: ObviationSupport Conlangery on Patreon!
Announcements:
David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA
The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK
Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have a couple interesting digressions on direct/inverse verb agreement systems and George’s hindsight on the appropriateness of a certain story.
Links and Resources:
A little introduction to obviation
“Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree“
“Obviation as disco...
2015-04-0641 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #108: ObviationSupport Conlangery on Patreon!
Announcements:
David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA
The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK
Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have a couple interesting digressions on direct/inverse verb agreement systems and George’s hindsight on the appropriateness of a certain story.
Links and Resources:
A little introduction to obviation
“Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree“
“Obviation as disco...
2015-04-0641 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb ConstructionsSuzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed.
You can now support Conlangery on Patreon!
William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame!
In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about!
Links and Resources:
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the languages of Africa
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai-Sayan Turkic
2015-02-0248 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb ConstructionsSuzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed.
You can now support Conlangery on Patreon!
William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame!
In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about!
Links and Resources:
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the languages of Africa
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai-Sayan Turkic
2015-02-0248 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #103: Mailbag 2We’re back! This episode we answer your emails on the show. Check the full emails below the fold.
Top of Show Greeting: Fyai Thǔvn
Email#1
Cherry-pick and paraphrase without mercy. Apologies if these have been addressed in the 30 released episodes I’m yet to enjoy.
Over-long Ingratiating Preamble:
I started listening to your podcast 29 days ago. 3d 4h down, 22h to go. I tell myself I’m enjoying it!
You’ve been an excellent resource and inspiration.
I have been accidentally preparing...
2014-09-0133 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #103: Mailbag 2We’re back! This episode we answer your emails on the show. Check the full emails below the fold.
Top of Show Greeting: Fyai Thǔvn
Email#1
Cherry-pick and paraphrase without mercy. Apologies if these have been addressed in the 30 released episodes I’m yet to enjoy.
Over-long Ingratiating Preamble:
I started listening to your podcast 29 days ago. 3d 4h down, 22h to go. I tell myself I’m enjoying it!
You’ve been an excellent resource and inspiration.
I have been accidentally preparing...
2014-09-0133 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #15: Mixed LanguagesGeorge takes a moment to talk about a kind of language that is somewhat to related to the pidgins and creoles episode.
CORRECTION: In the podcast I say that CIA is spoken on Copper Island. It originated there, but currently the surviving speaker population is on Bearing Island.
Special note: conlang is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
Links and Resources:
A paper describing Copper Island Aleut
Wikipedia for Copper Island Aleut
2014-06-1609 minConlangery PodcastConlangery SHORTS #15: Mixed LanguagesGeorge takes a moment to talk about a kind of language that is somewhat to related to the pidgins and creoles episode.
CORRECTION: In the podcast I say that CIA is spoken on Copper Island. It originated there, but currently the surviving speaker population is on Bearing Island.
Special note: conlang is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
Links and Resources:
A paper describing Copper Island Aleut
Wikipedia for Copper Island Aleut
2014-06-1609 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #90: Mailbag 1We resurrect the podcast with an episode that’s all answering listener feedback. We hope to keep this thing going for a good long time.
Top of Show Greeting: French (translation and recording by Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets)
Emails below the fold:
Hi!
I’m a rather bad natlanger. I’m too tempted to make Lojban-ish languages, where things are unambigous and make sense. I often make up languages that have a terminator for relative clauses. I wonder if you know any real languages that have them. There are trailing prepositions, but I don’t i...
2013-07-0331 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #90: Mailbag 1We resurrect the podcast with an episode that’s all answering listener feedback. We hope to keep this thing going for a good long time.
Top of Show Greeting: French (translation and recording by Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets)
Emails below the fold:
Hi!
I’m a rather bad natlanger. I’m too tempted to make Lojban-ish languages, where things are unambigous and make sense. I often make up languages that have a terminator for relative clauses. I wonder if you know any real languages that have them. There are trailing prepositions, but I don’t i...
2013-07-0331 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #89: PolysynthesisToday, we take a little time to talk about the topic of polysynthesis
Top of Show Greeting: Gothic (translated by Roman Rausch)
Links and Resources:
Nootkan/Southern Wakashan grammar (featured on episode 41)
ZBB thread on polysynthesis
Nice Inuit article
Iñupiatun Eskimo dictionary
Ancient Egyptian (Amazon link)
Feedback:
Hello, I’ve posted in the comments as Panglott a couple of times. I
have a couple of episode suggestions and a small offer below. There’s
no need to read this email on the air, please
...
2013-04-2250 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #89: PolysynthesisToday, we take a little time to talk about the topic of polysynthesis
Top of Show Greeting: Gothic (translated by Roman Rausch)
Links and Resources:
Nootkan/Southern Wakashan grammar (featured on episode 41)
ZBB thread on polysynthesis
Nice Inuit article
Iñupiatun Eskimo dictionary
Ancient Egyptian (Amazon link)
Feedback:
Hello, I’ve posted in the comments as Panglott a couple of times. I
have a couple of episode suggestions and a small offer below. There’s
no need to read this email on the air, please
...
2013-04-2250 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)This week, we are going to focus on a language you’ve probably heard us talk about quite a bit in passing: Ancient Greek. Learn how it is the oddball of European languages.
Ancient Greek dialect map. From Wikipedia.
Top of Show Greeting: Pali (natlang)
Special Mention: Linguistics MOOC
Links and Resources:
Tables and tables of morphological forms
Some downloadable books
Grammar handout
Greek Phonology
Info on those diacritics we derailed on
Feedback:
Hi George and co.
It’s a pity you can’t keep...
2013-04-081h 01Conlangery PodcastConlangery #88: Ancient Greek (natlang)This week, we are going to focus on a language you’ve probably heard us talk about quite a bit in passing: Ancient Greek. Learn how it is the oddball of European languages.
Ancient Greek dialect map. From Wikipedia.
Top of Show Greeting: Pali (natlang)
Special Mention: Linguistics MOOC
Links and Resources:
Tables and tables of morphological forms
Some downloadable books
Grammar handout
Greek Phonology
Info on those diacritics we derailed on
Feedback:
Hi George and co.
It’s a pity you can’t keep...
2013-04-081h 01Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #86: HimmaswaApologies for posting this so late. Technical difficulties.
In this episode we explore the curious Himmaswa and its Chinese-inspired writing system.
Top of Show Greeting: Swiss German (Zurich dialect)
Links for Himmaswa:
KneeQuickie
ZBB
Fkeuswa
Feedback:
Hi dudes…
I’m still loving the podcast I’ve got a question for you guys this time. I was trying to use obviation in my language, Nashtuku, so I ended up going down a rabbit hole of papers trying to grok the entirety of...
2013-03-1349 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #86: HimmaswaApologies for posting this so late. Technical difficulties.
In this episode we explore the curious Himmaswa and its Chinese-inspired writing system.
Top of Show Greeting: Swiss German (Zurich dialect)
Links for Himmaswa:
KneeQuickie
ZBB
Fkeuswa
Feedback:
Hi dudes…
I’m still loving the podcast I’ve got a question for you guys this time. I was trying to use obviation in my language, Nashtuku, so I ended up going down a rabbit hole of papers trying to grok the entirety of...
2013-03-1349 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #84: DelasonGeorge and Mike have a wonderful conversation with Nizar Habash, creator of Delason.
Featured Conlang: Delason
Feedback:
Hi!
I discovered this podcast almost a month ago and I’m on episode 46. I’m actually not a conlanger, but I love linguistics and I love the discussions you guys have about different aspects of language. Thank you for producing such a fascinating show.
-Shaw
Birmingham, AL
2013-02-1852 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #84: DelasonGeorge and Mike have a wonderful conversation with Nizar Habash, creator of Delason.
Featured Conlang: Delason
Feedback:
Hi!
I discovered this podcast almost a month ago and I’m on episode 46. I’m actually not a conlanger, but I love linguistics and I love the discussions you guys have about different aspects of language. Thank you for producing such a fascinating show.
-Shaw
Birmingham, AL
2013-02-1852 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #81: ToneIt took us two tries, but we managed to record an episode focusing entirely on tone systems. Learn about how tonal languages work, how they develop historically, and a few little bits you can play with.
Top of Show Greeting: Frenkisch
Links and Resources:
Wobé
Wè
Nobiin
Thai writing system
IPA Tone Markings
Hmong
Gwoyeu Romatzyh (Yes, that is how it’s spelled. Characters: 国语罗马字 )
Tonogenesis
WALS on tone
Feedback:
Email:
Hi George & co
After several months, I have finally caught up with all the Conlangery podcasts. I’m very impressed tha...
2013-01-2157 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #81: ToneIt took us two tries, but we managed to record an episode focusing entirely on tone systems. Learn about how tonal languages work, how they develop historically, and a few little bits you can play with.
Top of Show Greeting: Frenkisch
Links and Resources:
Wobé
Wè
Nobiin
Thai writing system
IPA Tone Markings
Hmong
Gwoyeu Romatzyh (Yes, that is how it’s spelled. Characters: 国语罗马字 )
Tonogenesis
WALS on tone
Feedback:
Email:
Hi George & co
After several months, I have finally caught up with all the Conlangery podcasts. I’m very impressed tha...
2013-01-2157 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #79: Cherokee (natlang)In our last full episode of 2012, we talk all about Cherokee.
Top of Show Greeting: Emberyad
Announcements:
Profile of John Quijada in The New Yorker
Jim Henry Medical Trust
Featured NATLANG: Cherokee
Reference Grammar
Lexicon Valley on Sequoyah’s syllabary
Short lesson on classifiers
Feedback:
Email:
Good Afternoon,
I just finished listening to you podcast on Khangabyagon and it struck me that you all said that this was a conlang for a ‘magical language’.
And I know from Arika Okrent’s book that...
2012-12-2554 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #79: Cherokee (natlang)In our last full episode of 2012, we talk all about Cherokee.
Top of Show Greeting: Emberyad
Announcements:
Profile of John Quijada in The New Yorker
Jim Henry Medical Trust
Featured NATLANG: Cherokee
Reference Grammar
Lexicon Valley on Sequoyah’s syllabary
Short lesson on classifiers
Feedback:
Email:
Good Afternoon,
I just finished listening to you podcast on Khangabyagon and it struck me that you all said that this was a conlang for a ‘magical language’.
And I know from Arika Okrent’s book that...
2012-12-2554 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #78: How to Read Linguistics PapersSpecial mention: DJP had another podcast interview (Yeah, I know, we’re late on everything)
Thanks to a wonderful email suggestion, we talk about how conlangers should read linguistics research papers, including what to look at (and what you don’t need to) and how to find papers to look at.
Top of Show Greeting: Kobardon
Email:
Conlangery,
I just made this suggestion on the web page, and it occurred to me that I did not sign my name. There’s a field for commenting, but it’s separate from the...
2012-12-1754 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #78: How to Read Linguistics PapersSpecial mention: DJP had another podcast interview (Yeah, I know, we’re late on everything)
Thanks to a wonderful email suggestion, we talk about how conlangers should read linguistics research papers, including what to look at (and what you don’t need to) and how to find papers to look at.
Top of Show Greeting: Kobardon
Email:
Conlangery,
I just made this suggestion on the web page, and it occurred to me that I did not sign my name. There’s a field for commenting, but it’s separate from the...
2012-12-1754 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #77: FairyLangThis week John Ericson joins us to talk about his wacky and wonderful FairyLang.
Top of Show Greeting: Russian (translation by Boris Listunov)
Featured Conlang: FairyLang
Feedback
Email:
Is it possible (or does there exist) languages in which the lexicon can be automatically generated (or at least guided) by a heuristic employing a pre-existing ontological framework?
I am new to this hobby (it was your podcast that really got me interested), and am trying to design a language where the semantics and lexicon are somewhat coupled. That...
2012-12-101h 02Conlangery PodcastConlangery #77: FairyLangThis week John Ericson joins us to talk about his wacky and wonderful FairyLang.
Top of Show Greeting: Russian (translation by Boris Listunov)
Featured Conlang: FairyLang
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Is it possible (or does there exist) languages in which the lexicon can be automatically generated (or at least guided) by a heuristic employing a pre-existing ontological framework?
I am new to this hobby (it was your podcast that really got me interested), and am trying to design a language where the semantics and lexicon are somewhat coupled. That...
2012-12-101h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #76: DefinitenessWilliam is back! He talks with us all about definiteness.
Top of Show Greeting: Vreksi
Links and Resources:
Typology of definiteness
Irish initial mutations (note the difference in masculine and feminine definites)
Javanese and definiteness in subjects
Another paper on definiteness
Hungarian definiteness marking on verbs
Feedback:
Email from Patrick:
I do in fact listen to the entirety of every episode, although I do admit I listen at 1 1/2 speed because I actually have no time to listen in the first place.
And, I’d like to thank y’al...
2012-12-0353 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #76: DefinitenessWilliam is back! He talks with us all about definiteness.
Top of Show Greeting: Vreksi
Links and Resources:
Typology of definiteness
Irish initial mutations (note the difference in masculine and feminine definites)
Javanese and definiteness in subjects
Another paper on definiteness
Hungarian definiteness marking on verbs
Feedback:
Email from Patrick:
I do in fact listen to the entirety of every episode, although I do admit I listen at 1 1/2 speed because I actually have no time to listen in the first place.
And, I’d like to thank y’al...
2012-12-0353 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #75: AlashianThis week, we invite Martin Posthumous on to talk about his new conlang Alashian.
Top of Show Greeting: South Eresian (reuse)
Featured Conlang: Alashian
Feedback:
Email from Kerri:
Hello. Thanks for doing the podcast. For some reason, I just comprehend things better aurally than read, so it’s been very useful to me! I’m not a linguist, I’m a writer who’s just trying to make something that doesn’t make linguists grind their teeth. I created a language to go with a culture I created for a story, w...
2012-11-1942 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #75: AlashianThis week, we invite Martin Posthumous on to talk about his new conlang Alashian.
Top of Show Greeting: South Eresian (reuse)
Featured Conlang: Alashian
Feedback:
Email from Kerri:
Hello. Thanks for doing the podcast. For some reason, I just comprehend things better aurally than read, so it’s been very useful to me! I’m not a linguist, I’m a writer who’s just trying to make something that doesn’t make linguists grind their teeth. I created a language to go with a culture I created for a story, w...
2012-11-1942 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #74: Vowel HarmonyToday we talk to you all about vowel harmony, taking Turkish, Finnish, Moro, and Mongolian as case studies to help you figure out the intricacies of what choices you need to make in vowel harmony systems and how you can introduce interesting
Top of Show Greeting: Maksinaunminverbe
Links and Resources:
Distinctive Feature Chart
Vowel Systems
Info on Turkish
Wikipedia: Languages with Vowel Harmony
Kinyarwanda (natlang; not mentioned on the pod)
Special mention (from the outtakes): A giant freaking basket
Feedback:
χαιρετε, ὠ φιλε (“Greetings, friends”),
Over at the Conlangers group on deviantART, we’re hosting this...
2012-11-121h 13Conlangery PodcastConlangery #74: Vowel HarmonyToday we talk to you all about vowel harmony, taking Turkish, Finnish, Moro, and Mongolian as case studies to help you figure out the intricacies of what choices you need to make in vowel harmony systems and how you can introduce interesting
Top of Show Greeting: Maksinaunminverbe
Links and Resources:
Distinctive Feature Chart
Vowel Systems
Info on Turkish
Wikipedia: Languages with Vowel Harmony
Kinyarwanda (natlang; not mentioned on the pod)
Special mention (from the outtakes): A giant freaking basket
Feedback:
χαιρετε, ὠ φιλε (“Greetings, friends”),
Over at the Conlangers group on deviantART, we’re hosting this...
2012-11-121h 13Conlangery PodcastConlangery #73: KhangaþyagonToday we eventually get to talking about Khangaþyagon, and get a lot of interesting stuff out of it. Also, George forgets a notable conlanger who has been featured before on the show. *headdesk*
Top of Show Greeting: Shokitin
Featured Conlang: Khangaþyagon
Email:
Conglangerists:
A while ago I finished my trawl through the Conlangery backlog, and
I’m quite happy to say that I’ve now listened to ALL of the
Conlangery. I’m sorry to see Bianca and William go even temporarily,
but they’ll be back. And...
2012-10-291h 11Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #73: KhangaþyagonToday we eventually get to talking about Khangaþyagon, and get a lot of interesting stuff out of it. Also, George forgets a notable conlanger who has been featured before on the show. *headdesk*
Top of Show Greeting: Shokitin
Featured Conlang: Khangaþyagon
Email:
Conglangerists:
A while ago I finished my trawl through the Conlangery backlog, and
I’m quite happy to say that I’ve now listened to ALL of the
Conlangery. I’m sorry to see Bianca and William go even temporarily,
but they’ll be back. And...
2012-10-291h 11Conlangery PodcastConlangery #67: AlũbetahBianca joins us as we tackle a fun and wacky conlang with some serious phonological processes.
Top of Show Greeting: Neo-Simikaka
Featured Conlang: Alũbetah
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Hi guys,
Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
Loving the podcast, keep up the good work. Only discovered it a few weeks ago, but have worked my way back through most of your back catalogue.
I had a question which you might have covered in your episode on loan words, but not sure. I am a high school langu...
2012-09-1757 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #67: AlũbetahBianca joins us as we tackle a fun and wacky conlang with some serious phonological processes.
Top of Show Greeting: Neo-Simikaka
Featured Conlang: Alũbetah
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Hi guys,
Greetings from Melbourne, Australia.
Loving the podcast, keep up the good work. Only discovered it a few weeks ago, but have worked my way back through most of your back catalogue.
I had a question which you might have covered in your episode on loan words, but not sure. I am a high school langu...
2012-09-1757 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #65: TayéinWilliam is leaving (temporarily), but don’t worry, we have one more episode before he goes. Also, we talk with Eric about his lovely language Tayéin
Top of Show Greeting: Frixàð
Featured Conlang: Tayéin
Feedback:
Email from Sai:
George, William, & Mike –
Howdy.
Alex & I were just listening to your podcast #62 while on a road trip,
and you mentioned a couple things we’d like to respond to.
1. You mentioned that you don’t know any conlangs that have logophor;
our gripping l...
2012-09-031h 30Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #65: TayéinWilliam is leaving (temporarily), but don’t worry, we have one more episode before he goes. Also, we talk with Eric about his lovely language Tayéin
Top of Show Greeting: Frixàð
Featured Conlang: Tayéin
Feedback:
Email from Sai:
George, William, & Mike –
Howdy.
Alex & I were just listening to your podcast #62 while on a road trip,
and you mentioned a couple things we’d like to respond to.
1. You mentioned that you don’t know any conlangs that have logophor;
our gripping l...
2012-09-031h 30Conlangery PodcastConlangery #64: Head-marking vs Dependent-markingToday we tackle a very interesting typology topic: head-marking and dependant-marking. Turns out that whether your language leans one way or another affects (or depends on) a wide variety of grammatical features. Be sure to check the links below for additional info.
Top of Show Greeting: Toki Pona (translated by Vadim Fomin)
Links and Resources:
Great paper on the subject
WALS: Locus of Marking in the Clause
WALS: Locus of Marking: Whole Language Typology
Feedback:
Email from Caleb:
Hey guys, Great work with the podcast, informative and funny. I got...
2012-08-2754 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #64: Head-marking vs Dependent-markingToday we tackle a very interesting typology topic: head-marking and dependant-marking. Turns out that whether your language leans one way or another affects (or depends on) a wide variety of grammatical features. Be sure to check the links below for additional info.
Top of Show Greeting: Toki Pona (translated by Vadim Fomin)
Links and Resources:
Great paper on the subject
WALS: Locus of Marking in the Clause
WALS: Locus of Marking: Whole Language Typology
Feedback:
Email from Caleb:
Hey guys, Great work with the podcast, informative and funny. I got...
2012-08-2754 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #62: Practicum — Anaphora and Co-referenceToday we tackle a big grammar and discourse topic: anaphora and co-referentiality. We go through a list of options you have for cleaning up ambiguities and keeping your discourse coherent. Just don’t throw them all into the same conlang.
Top of Show Greeting: Minhast
Links and Resources:
Indexicality, Logophorality, and Plural Pronouns
Logophor in Ogonoid languages
Switch reference in Pomo
Wiki on switch reference
Special Mention: Talossa has been reunited
Feedback:
Emails:
From Robert:
Dear Dudes,
I like the new format. I think...
2012-08-061h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #62: Practicum — Anaphora and Co-referenceToday we tackle a big grammar and discourse topic: anaphora and co-referentiality. We go through a list of options you have for cleaning up ambiguities and keeping your discourse coherent. Just don’t throw them all into the same conlang.
Top of Show Greeting: Minhast
Links and Resources:
Indexicality, Logophorality, and Plural Pronouns
Logophor in Ogonoid languages
Switch reference in Pomo
Wiki on switch reference
Special Mention: Talossa has been reunited
Feedback:
Emails:
From Robert:
Dear Dudes,
I like the new format. I think...
2012-08-061h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #61: amman îarThis week we cover the monumental and yet incomplete amman îar, a heavily Tolkien-inspired language that nevertheless manages to have its own flavor.
Top of Show Greeting: Uskra
Featured Conlang: amman îar
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Email from FE:
Howdy,
I don’t know if someone has already addressed this, however, in episode 40 you discussed the ubiquity of British-esque varieties in fantasy media and introduced the implications thereof but weren’t able to come up with examples besides the Game of Thrones series and which William (or Bianca?) noted largely featur...
2012-07-301h 08Conlangery PodcastConlangery #61: amman îarThis week we cover the monumental and yet incomplete amman îar, a heavily Tolkien-inspired language that nevertheless manages to have its own flavor.
Top of Show Greeting: Uskra
Featured Conlang: amman îar
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Email from FE:
Howdy,
I don’t know if someone has already addressed this, however, in episode 40 you discussed the ubiquity of British-esque varieties in fantasy media and introduced the implications thereof but weren’t able to come up with examples besides the Game of Thrones series and which William (or Bianca?) noted largely featur...
2012-07-301h 08Conlangery PodcastConlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle VoiceThis week, we talk all about the middle voice and the many things that that covers, as well as give you all sorts of options to make your own creative use of this feature. We also have a featured natlang today that has very interesting features as well as some hilarious crackpot historical theories around it.
Top of Show Greeting: Fäesek
Links and Resources:
Paper about middle voice
Wikipedia
Lingforum thread
SIL FAQ
A short description
Featured NATLANG: Burushaski (Wikipedia page)
Feedback:
Email from Thomas:
Hi!
...
2012-07-091h 32Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle VoiceThis week, we talk all about the middle voice and the many things that that covers, as well as give you all sorts of options to make your own creative use of this feature. We also have a featured natlang today that has very interesting features as well as some hilarious crackpot historical theories around it.
Top of Show Greeting: Fäesek
Links and Resources:
Paper about middle voice
Wikipedia
Lingforum thread
SIL FAQ
A short description
Featured NATLANG: Burushaski (Wikipedia page)
Feedback:
Email from Thomas:
Hi!
...
2012-07-091h 32Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of TenseWe give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps. Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang.
Top of Show: Sheewan
Links and Resources:
Vietnamese tense/aspect marking
Telicity (Wikipedia)
Featured Conlang: K’tlê
Feedback:
Email from JS:
Conlangery hosts:
I’m writing to say how much I enjoy your podcast. I only became aware
of its existence a few weeks a...
2012-06-181h 02Conlangery PodcastConlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of TenseWe give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps. Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang.
Top of Show: Sheewan
Links and Resources:
Vietnamese tense/aspect marking
Telicity (Wikipedia)
Featured Conlang: K’tlê
Feedback:
Email from JS:
Conlangery hosts:
I’m writing to say how much I enjoy your podcast. I only became aware
of its existence a few weeks a...
2012-06-181h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #54: ReduplicationToday is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ. Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural!
Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr
Links and Resources
Iyo Grammar (see p. 21)
Spokan (reduplication talk begins on p. 111)
Reduplication in Kikerewe
Turkish reduplication for intensives
Mon and Khmer
Wikipedia on Reduplication
Featured NATLANG: Sandawe (Wikipedia)
Feedback:
Email from Liam:
Hi there,
I recently just discovered the podcast, and I’m in love! I’ve bee...
2012-06-111h 32Conlangery PodcastConlangery #54: ReduplicationToday is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ. Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural!
Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr
Links and Resources
Iyo Grammar (see p. 21)
Spokan (reduplication talk begins on p. 111)
Reduplication in Kikerewe
Turkish reduplication for intensives
Mon and Khmer
Wikipedia on Reduplication
Featured NATLANG: Sandawe (Wikipedia)
Feedback:
Email from Liam:
Hi there,
I recently just discovered the podcast, and I’m in love! I’ve bee...
2012-06-111h 32Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #53: TopicalizationAfter a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages. Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch
Top of Show Greeting: Grewa
Resources:
Nice paper on topicalization
Featured Conlang: Talmit (LCC talk, pdf grammar, more stuff)
Feedback:
Email from Alex:
Hey everyone, my name’s Alex and I’m a conlanger and regular watcher of your podcast (which, I adore, by the way) and I...
2012-06-041h 07Conlangery PodcastConlangery #53: TopicalizationAfter a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages. Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch
Top of Show Greeting: Grewa
Resources:
Nice paper on topicalization
Featured Conlang: Talmit (LCC talk, pdf grammar, more stuff)
Feedback:
Email from Alex:
Hey everyone, my name’s Alex and I’m a conlanger and regular watcher of your podcast (which, I adore, by the way) and I...
2012-06-041h 07Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #44: NegationFirst of all, George was on something called FourCast a bit ago. You might enjoy it. Also, CNN is doing a special on Dothraki on April 8. But the meat of this podcast is all about negation: how to deal with scope, negative concord, and a number of other issues in your conlang. Oh, and we also talk about Brithenig.
Top of Show Greeting: Qlfhpfsq
Links and Resources:
Asymmetries in negation (WALS)
Featured Conlang: Brithenig (FrathWiki page, Ill Bethisad Wiki)
Feedback:
Email from Lee:
Hi, Conlangers, domo.
I li...
2012-04-021h 17Conlangery PodcastConlangery #44: NegationFirst of all, George was on something called FourCast a bit ago. You might enjoy it. Also, CNN is doing a special on Dothraki on April 8. But the meat of this podcast is all about negation: how to deal with scope, negative concord, and a number of other issues in your conlang. Oh, and we also talk about Brithenig.
Top of Show Greeting: Qlfhpfsq
Links and Resources:
Asymmetries in negation (WALS)
Featured Conlang: Brithenig (FrathWiki page, Ill Bethisad Wiki)
Feedback:
Email from Lee:
Hi, Conlangers, domo.
I li...
2012-04-021h 17Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #43: AdpositionsToday, we spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about adpositions, creating an hour-long discussion out of something William thought would be short. We also have an extra special featured conlang today — one hand crafted specifically for this podcast!
Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati
Links and Resources:
WALS: Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS: Person Marking on Adpositions
WALS on VO/OV order and adpositions
Featured Conlang: Junen Rhá
Hey Guys,
Here’s my try at the caseless conlang exercise. Sorry it’s a little
late in co...
2012-03-261h 32Conlangery PodcastConlangery #43: AdpositionsToday, we spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about adpositions, creating an hour-long discussion out of something William thought would be short. We also have an extra special featured conlang today — one hand crafted specifically for this podcast!
Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati
Links and Resources:
WALS: Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
WALS: Person Marking on Adpositions
WALS on VO/OV order and adpositions
Featured Conlang: Junen Rhá
Hey Guys,
Here’s my try at the caseless conlang exercise. Sorry it’s a little
late in co...
2012-03-261h 32Conlangery PodcastConlangery #41: Discourse ParticlesBianca’s last show as a regular host goes into a rather ambitious topic: discourse particles. Go listen to the show, because it’s too complicated a subject for me to summarize properly here. We also feature a natlang going by two names.
Top of Show Greeting: Amjati
Links and Resources:
Paper with a typology and some general info (Mostly uses German and English)
Mando Malay
Chinese discourse particles (skip to the qualitative analysis)
Featured NATLANG: Nootka and Makah
Feedback:
Email:
Hey guys,
So first off let...
2012-03-121h 12Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #41: Discourse ParticlesBianca’s last show as a regular host goes into a rather ambitious topic: discourse particles. Go listen to the show, because it’s too complicated a subject for me to summarize properly here. We also feature a natlang going by two names.
Top of Show Greeting: Amjati
Links and Resources:
Paper with a typology and some general info (Mostly uses German and English)
Mando Malay
Chinese discourse particles (skip to the qualitative analysis)
Featured NATLANG: Nootka and Makah
Feedback:
Email:
Hey guys,
So first off let...
2012-03-121h 12Conlangery PodcastConlangery #37: Phonological ProcessesAszev of the CBB joins us for a little talk about the many kinds of phonological processes: what they are, what you can do with them, why the order of processes in important. We also review the awesomely well-developed Novegradian with its 500-page grammar and excellent dictionary.
Top of Show Greeting: Talmit
Links and Resources:
Distinctive Features
Types of Processes
Featured Conlang: Novegradian
Feedback:
Email from Nathaniel Fischer:
Dear Conlangery Podcast,
I really enjoyed your episode on gender, and I thought I’d contribute my own interesting tidb...
2012-02-1358 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #37: Phonological ProcessesAszev of the CBB joins us for a little talk about the many kinds of phonological processes: what they are, what you can do with them, why the order of processes in important. We also review the awesomely well-developed Novegradian with its 500-page grammar and excellent dictionary.
Top of Show Greeting: Talmit
Links and Resources:
Distinctive Features
Types of Processes
Featured Conlang: Novegradian
Feedback:
Email from Nathaniel Fischer:
Dear Conlangery Podcast,
I really enjoyed your episode on gender, and I thought I’d contribute my own interesting tidb...
2012-02-1358 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #36: Morphosyntactic AlignmentCORRECTION: A commenter below graciously corrected me on a point I (George) raised in the show. When I talk about desiderative languages, please replace that word with dechticaetiative. Look to the comments below for a relevant link. I apologize for misidentifying the phenomenon I was talking about.
We talk a lot about morphosyntactic alignment, outlining the basic types, talking a little about various complications, and even bringing up a linguist who thinks it’s not all that important, anyway. Also, we feature a natlang for the second time: Ngarla, a language of Australia, with some morphosyntactic oddness (that’s t...
2012-02-061h 07Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #36: Morphosyntactic AlignmentCORRECTION: A commenter below graciously corrected me on a point I (George) raised in the show. When I talk about desiderative languages, please replace that word with dechticaetiative. Look to the comments below for a relevant link. I apologize for misidentifying the phenomenon I was talking about.
We talk a lot about morphosyntactic alignment, outlining the basic types, talking a little about various complications, and even bringing up a linguist who thinks it’s not all that important, anyway. Also, we feature a natlang for the second time: Ngarla, a language of Australia, with some morphosyntactic oddness (that’s t...
2012-02-061h 07Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #30: Numeral SystemsGeorge has put up a grammar! Also, we talk numerals — what base to use, how to construct higher numerals, cardinal vs ordinal, etc. Then we feature a little bogolang called Wenedyk.
Top of the Show Greeting: Celinese
Links and Resources:
WALS Numerical Base
WALS Ordinals
WALS Distributives
WALS Numeral Classifiers
Alyutor (Wikipedia)
Pame number system (transition from octal to vigesimal)
Janko Gorenc
Featured Conlang: Wenedyk
Feedback:
Email from Mathew Park:
Dear Conlangery,Over the past two days I have listened to all of your pod casts. While I am...
2011-12-261h 05Conlangery PodcastConlangery #30: Numeral SystemsGeorge has put up a grammar! Also, we talk numerals — what base to use, how to construct higher numerals, cardinal vs ordinal, etc. Then we feature a little bogolang called Wenedyk.
Top of the Show Greeting: Celinese
Links and Resources:
WALS Numerical Base
WALS Ordinals
WALS Distributives
WALS Numeral Classifiers
Alyutor (Wikipedia)
Pame number system (transition from octal to vigesimal)
Janko Gorenc
Featured Conlang: Wenedyk
Feedback:
Email from Mathew Park:
Dear Conlangery,Over the past two days I have listened to all of your pod casts. While I am...
2011-12-261h 05Conlangery PodcastConlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)A very special guest host joins us for this episode, where we try to talk about correlatives as a thing, but as correlatives is actually many different things, we end up just talking about indefinites the whole time. We have much more
Top of Show Greeting: pr̝̊ɛmɪsl
Links and Resources:
Esperanto correlatives
WALS on Indefinites
Featured Conlang: Gomain
Feedback:
Koppa Dasao (comment on #26): Good news. Was at my check up Tuesday, and my kidneys are patching up. Now I got more than half-a-kidney sustaining me
Email:
James C...
2011-12-121h 10Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)A very special guest host joins us for this episode, where we try to talk about correlatives as a thing, but as correlatives is actually many different things, we end up just talking about indefinites the whole time. We have much more
Top of Show Greeting: pr̝̊ɛmɪsl
Links and Resources:
Esperanto correlatives
WALS on Indefinites
Featured Conlang: Gomain
Feedback:
Koppa Dasao (comment on #26): Good news. Was at my check up Tuesday, and my kidneys are patching up. Now I got more than half-a-kidney sustaining me
Email:
James C...
2011-12-121h 10Conlangery PodcastConlangery #27: IrregularityWe start off with a reccomendation of sorts of the Speculative Grammarian Podcast, and George’s own long post on romanization. Then we get into the meat of the show talking about all kinds of irregularity and “regular irregularity”. Then we take a 180-degree turn and talk about the insanely regular Esperanto.
Top of Show Greeting: Ayeri
Featured Conlang: Esperanto (also here)
Feedback:
Email from Nathaniel:
I’ve developed a fairly complicated type of poetry for my conlang Japaratu. This kind of poetry is known as the Gį́į́, and takes advantage of se...
2011-12-051h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #27: IrregularityWe start off with a reccomendation of sorts of the Speculative Grammarian Podcast, and George’s own long post on romanization. Then we get into the meat of the show talking about all kinds of irregularity and “regular irregularity”. Then we take a 180-degree turn and talk about the insanely regular Esperanto.
Top of Show Greeting: Ayeri
Featured Conlang: Esperanto (also here)
Feedback:
Email from Nathaniel:
I’ve developed a fairly complicated type of poetry for my conlang Japaratu. This kind of poetry is known as the Gį́į́, and takes advantage of se...
2011-12-051h 02Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #26: “Emphasis”We talk about one of William’s pet peeves in conlang descriptions and linguistics in general: the overuse of the word “emphasis”. We start out with some very strong reccomendations against using it in phonology, and then talk about some more standard terms you might use instead when talking about discourse or syntax. We also review Yivrian, created by the writer of the well-known (in the community) “Artlanger’s Rant”.
Top of Show Greeting: Mybutan
Conlang: Yivrian
Feedback:
Email:
Dear Conlangery Podcast!I wasn’t sure where I should leave this little...
2011-11-2852 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #26: “Emphasis”We talk about one of William’s pet peeves in conlang descriptions and linguistics in general: the overuse of the word “emphasis”. We start out with some very strong reccomendations against using it in phonology, and then talk about some more standard terms you might use instead when talking about discourse or syntax. We also review Yivrian, created by the writer of the well-known (in the community) “Artlanger’s Rant”.
Top of Show Greeting: Mybutan
Conlang: Yivrian
Feedback:
Email:
Dear Conlangery Podcast!I wasn’t sure where I should leave this little...
2011-11-2852 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #24: PossessionAfter some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi.
Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian
Conlang: Abakwi
Feedback:
Email from Matt Pearson:
Hi George,
I finally had a chance to listen to the podcast that featured Okuna. Many thanks to you and your co-hosts for taking the time to review it, and for all your praise and thoughtful comments! To have...
2011-11-1448 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #24: PossessionAfter some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi.
Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian
Conlang: Abakwi
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Email from Matt Pearson:
Hi George,
I finally had a chance to listen to the podcast that featured Okuna. Many thanks to you and your co-hosts for taking the time to review it, and for all your praise and thoughtful comments! To have...
2011-11-1448 minConlangery PodcastConlangery #23: Alien LanguagesWe talk a little about what we like and dislike about alien languages — and what concepts we think are actually likely to work. Then we reveiw Ebisédian.
Top of Show Greeting: Cardonian
Conlang: Ebisédian
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Five-Star Reviews:
Great for both people interested in conlanging and linguistics in general
by stingerbrg
I’m fairly new at the conlanging hobby, so I don’t know much about languages, but this podcast has really helped me. Their discussions of different aspects of language has taught me more than...
2011-11-0751 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #23: Alien LanguagesWe talk a little about what we like and dislike about alien languages — and what concepts we think are actually likely to work. Then we reveiw Ebisédian.
Top of Show Greeting: Cardonian
Conlang: Ebisédian
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Five-Star Reviews:
Great for both people interested in conlanging and linguistics in general
by stingerbrg
I’m fairly new at the conlanging hobby, so I don’t know much about languages, but this podcast has really helped me. Their discussions of different aspects of language has taught me more than...
2011-11-0751 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #20: IdeophonesWe talk about ideophones, a fun, fun class of words that describe a general feeling. We also review a language that’s not quite an elflang, so William doesn’t quite hate it.
Top of Show Greeting: Dothraki
Links and Resources
The Ideophone
Ideophone definition
Japanese ideophones
Daniel Tammet inventing an ideophone
Featured Conlang: Old Albic
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I’ve just started listening to your podcast and since I’ve started to listen to your podcast I’ve significantly simplified (lolz paradox/oxymoron) the aspects of the languag...
2011-10-1753 minPodcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #18: MoodWe finish out our Holy Trinity of Verbs with Mood — a slippery, slippery subject if there ever was one. Of course, after trying to make some sense out of that, we move on to review South Eresian
Top of Show Greeting: tzoi
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Wikipedia on Mood
Conlang: South Eresian (blog)
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Email from James Campbell:
You’re up early :-)I keep meaning to suggest dialects as a topic for discussion. We English speakers tend not to realise the extraordinary divergence that can be found in dialects, but my exposure to North Norwegian diale...
2011-10-031h 01Podcast – Conlangery PodcastConlangery #17: AspectThe second in our TAM series, we spend a good deal of time on the basic perfective/imperfective distinction as well as talk a little about how you can go totally crazy with many, many more aspects. Then we review the incredible Siwa.
Top of show greeting: Salthan
Featured Conlang: Siwa (CBB Thread)
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(First of all, here’s a link to the Inyauk Grammar for you.)
Owen (email)
HelloI just discovered your podcast last weekend on iTunes and I’ve been listening to all the episodes this week. I really...
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