Conlanging Reference
General Reference
- Basic English Wordlists
- ogden.basic-english.org
- The 850-word lists of Ogden's auxlang can serve as a starting point for vocabulary creation of conlangs (similar to Swadesh Lists)
- Essays on Artificial Language Design
- www.eskimo.com/~ram/essays.html
- Rick Morneau's collection of essays of interest to conlangers. Especially of interest is the extensive essay on Syntax.
- Language Creation Society
- www.conlang.org
- The official homepage of the Language Creation Society with links to the Language Creation Conferences and LCS Podcasts.
- How to Create a Language
- www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/how__all.html
- A great resource from Pablo David Flores (partially based on and a nice complement to The Language Construction Kit (see below).
- The Language Construction Kit
- www.zompist.com/kit.html
- The step-by-step guide to creating your artificial language, from Sounds to Dialects. Excellent for beginners! The Language Construction Kit has been translated into Portugues, Italian, and German.
Online Tools
- Awkwords Word Generator
- bprhad.wz.cz/awkwords
- A simple-to-use yet powerful application from Petr Mejzlík that allows one to input letters, letter combinations, and syllable structures and generate words for your conlang.
- Fantasist.net
- www.fantasist.net
- Go to the Conlang Page of this site for some helpful resources such as the Proper Name Generator (generate names based on a wide range of languages), Conlang Word Generator, Conlang Word Maker (enter parameters like syllable structure), and finally, the Dialect Maker. Excellent resource.
Conlang Reference Metasites
- Conlang Atlas of Language Structures
- cals.conlang.org
- Patterned after the World Atlas of Language Structures, this database allows conlangers to specify the phonology, morphology, syntax, and more of their languages
- David J. Peterson's Web Thing ~:D
- dedalvs.conlang.org
- David J. Peterson's web presence includes lots of information on his many conlangs as well as his other pursuits. David is prolific, good humored, extremely knowledgeable. One especially pertinent section is his Language Creation Notebook and his Language Links. The transcripts of the LCC Conlang Relays are available here as well.
- Richard Kennaway's Constructed Languages Index
- www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~jrk/conlang.html
- An extensive index of conlang web pages and resources for language building.