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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…
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IS klIngon really tHat baD? – a conlang revIew
I feel that Klingon has a bad reputation among conlangers. Even I have mocked it in my previous post for its terrible romanisation system. But is it really that bad? Or is the bad romanisation system making it look worse than it actually is? As a Star Trek fan and…
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How to Create a Romanisation System for Your Conlang
I like IPA a lot, and I always highly recommend using it when creating and describing your conlang’s phonology. However, most people don’t even know what the IPA is and they may interpret that first sentence rather differently. In some situations, it is more useful to have a system for…
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An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 5: Phonotactics
So far in this series, I’ve been explaining the various kinds of sounds that you can include in your conlang. But in addition to having a limited inventory of sounds, languages also have restrictions on how those sounds can be arranged in a syllable. These restrictions are called phonotactics. The…
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Worldbuilding, Conlanging and Other Stuff
Stephen Escher 