linguistics
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Rílin – A Conlang Review
This is a review of Rílin, an artlang created by Margaret Ransdell-Green for her personal worldbuilding project Aenith. I’ve decided to review this conlang partly because I know Margaret quite well from the conlanging community on twitter, but also because I’m huge fan of her worldbuilding project Aenith. If you…
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The Bèshus Language: Nouns, Pronouns and Particles
This section describes the inflectional morphology of nouns and pronouns in Bèshus. Determiners and conjunctions will also be listed here. Verbs and postpositions will be covered in a separate section, please see the introduction for a menu. Noun Declensions Nouns are marked mainly for gender and case. Plurality can be…
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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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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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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…
Stephen Escher 