Conlanging
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Lexember 2020
My theme for Lexember this year is ‘Jackalopes and Unicorns’ and the language I am creating words for is Nìmpyèshiu again. Both Jackalopes and Unicorns are important domesticated animals to the Nìmpyèràn, so this Lexember is about creating some specialist vocabulary for them.
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Lexember 2019
These are all my posts from Lexember 2019 listed in chronological order. Originally posted on my Tumblr page. Lexember the 1st I only just heard about Lexember, so I’m sorry I’m starting a bit late but I’ll try to catch up with the days I’ve missed. I will be creating…
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12 Tips for Lexember
December is an exciting time of year for me, as it’s time for Lexember. I think there is some other important event that happens during December, but I can’t quite remember what it is. Anyway, Lexember is a social-media conlanging-based challenge which started on Twitter in 2012 and was created…
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Oqolaawak – A Conlang Review
Classical Oqolaawak is a conlang created by the You-Tuber Biblaridion. He started creating it in 2015 for his own world-building project. In-world, Classical Oqolaawak is a language spoken by the Oqolaayo people and is part of the Oqolaawak language family. Reference material for this conlang was released in 2019 in…
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How to Evolve Your Conlang – Part 1: Sound Change
Languages are never set in stone, and your conlang shouldn’t really be either. This is to be the first part of a recurring series on the basics of historical linguistics and how to evolve your conlang. In this first part, I will discuss the various kinds of sound changes that…
Stephen Escher 