Stephen Escher

Worldbuilding, Conlanging and Other Stuff

IPA

An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 3: Stress and Timing

In the previous two parts, I have been talking about consonants and vowels. These are both segmental in nature, which means they can be analysed as distinct segments of speech. In the next two parts, I will be talking about phonetic features that cannot be analysed as discrete segments but…

Aug 4, 2019

Conlanging

conlang, Conlanging, gemination, IPA, language, length, linguistics, mora, mora-timed, phonology, schwa, secondary stress, stress, stress-timed, suprasegmentals, syllable, syllable-timed, timing, vowel reduction
An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 1: Consonants

I’ve decided to open this blog with a tutorial on how to construct an artificial language (also called a conlang). I’ve been creating conlangs for several years now, and I feel that I have a lot of advice to share. This will be the first in a series of articles…

Mar 4, 2019

Conlanging

artificial language, artlang, conlang, Conlanging, consonant, constructed language, fictional language, IPA, language, manner of articulation, non-pulmonic consonant, phoneme, phonetics, phonology, place of articulation, rhotics, secondary articulation, voice onset time, VOT, Worldbuilding