Conlanging
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The Bèshus Language: An Introduction
Bèshus is a daughter language of Nìmpyèshiu primarily spoken in the nation of Bèrangus on the Bèdan continent. It evolved from a dialect of western Nìmpyèshiu spoken by the founders of Bèrangus in 423 NC. It is classified as being part of the ‘Èshustic’ branch of the Nìmpyèrànic language family…
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A Land of Words – A Conlanger’s Word List
This will be the first post of a new format I’m trying for this blog. It’s simply a collection of words with a common theme, and commentary that should help inspire you to add words to your conlang’s lexicon. Today’s theme is about words for different kinds of land and…
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Lortho – A Conlang Review
A critical analysis of Brain B. Bourque’s Lortho that even a nuphi can understand!
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Phonaesthetics in Conlanging
Many conlangers (including myself) focus on linguistics when creating our conlangs. But while learning linguistics is very useful, we shouldn’t forget there is a creative side that needs to be considered. One way in which you can express creativity is through how the conlang ‘sounds’, i.e. its phonaesthetics. This is…
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Mondir – A Conlang Review
Mondir is derived from a proto-language called *Gnixwaxb, which sounds like (but it’s not made entirely clear) a relex of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). He took the same sound changes that caused PIE to become Latin and applied them to *Gnixwaxb. The end result of this is Classical Mondir. He then extended…
Stephen Escher 