phoneme
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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: Phonology
This is a summary of the pronunciation of the Bèshus language, focusing on the standard language. Bèshus is a mora-timed language with pitch-accent. The phonemic inventory comprises 21 consonants and five vowels. An introduction to the language can be found here. Consonants Broad transcription IPA is given in // where…
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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 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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An In-Depth Guide to Creating a Phonology – Part 2: Vowels
In the last part of this series, I discussed how to create a consonant inventory. So in this part, I will be covering vowels. One major misconception about vowels is that English has five vowels. Actually, written English has five letters that represent vowels (sometimes ‘y’ can as well), but…
Stephen Escher 