Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery Podcast episodes:

• 02.27.2024

  Jessie Peterson’s Conlang Year

  I interview Jessie Peterson of  @LangTimeStudio  about her Conlang Year project, as well as her other conlanging education and promotion projects. See Conlang Year here: https://www.quothalinguist.com/

  
• 01.22.2024

  Interview with Artifexian

  I talked to  Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.

  
• 12.22.2023

  Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

  Today, I interview Agma Schwa about dog languages, cursed conlangs, and creativity. Make sure to check out this year’s Cursed Conlang Circus!

  
• 11.27.2023

  Talking Movie Conlanging with Paul Frommer

  https://youtu.be/KpLt4v2PhQA George talked to Paul Frommer, the creator of Na'vi, about his work creating languages for movies. Resources mentioned: Looking at Languages by Paul Frommer and Edward Finegan An Annotated Dictionary of Na'vi by Stefan G. Müller Conlanging: The Art of...

  
• 10.31.2023

  Can ChatGPT Create a Language?

  George breaks down a paper that discusses ChatGPT’s supposed ability to create languages. It is not impressive. Citations Diamond, Justin. “Genlangs and Zipf’s Law.” ArXiv Computer Science, 2023. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2304/2304.12191.pdf De Marzo, Giordano, Francesco Sylos Labini, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law...

  
• 10.30.2023

  Marc Okrand on Klingon and Conlanging

  George interviews Marc Okrand on his work on Klingon and Atlantean and his experiences with both the Klingon speaker community and the greater conlanging community.

  
• 10.05.2023

  Announcement for Tongues and Runes

  I’m announcing a new streaming series: Tongues and Runes. You can find the first stream scheduled here.

  
• 08.16.2023

  CD Covington’s Guide to Linguistic Worldbuilding

  George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter. Links:

  
• 07.30.2023

  Interview with Biblaridion

  George interviews Biblaridion on conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.

  
• 06.30.2023

  On Rasharnian (from Immortals of Aveum)

  George has obtained information on the conlang Rasharnian created for Immortals of Aveum. This is a critique of that language as well as a discussion of issues surrounding it that were brought up in the conlanging community.

  
• 05.26.2023

  David and Jessie Talk Kopikon

  George has David and Jesse on to talk about Kopikon! Links:

  
• 05.19.2023

  George’s talk at LCC10

  Here’s the audio of my talk at LCC10. The video version can be seen here.

  
• 04.17.2023

  Announcements: LCC10 and Kopikon

  We have two conlang conferences coming up this year. LCC10 is this weekend, and in September, we’ll have Kopikon!

  
• 02.27.2023

  Short: Streaming my Lexember

  George talks about his experience streaming during Lexember. NOTE: This episode was written and recorded in the middle of the D&D OGL debacle. The way it was resolved changes some calculations slightly, but I’m still a bit perturbed by it....

  
• 12.05.2022

  Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad

  Aidan Aannestad comes on the show to talk about information structure, which included discussions on topic and focus and how they can be realized in language. Links and Resources

  
• 11.28.2022

  Announcing Conlangery Lexember Streams!

  George will be streaming word creation for Lexember every Saturday of the month at 1 PM US Central Time! You can check it out here!

  
• 11.07.2022

  Whistle Registers with Logan Kearsley

  Today, Logan Kearsley joins us to talk about whistled registers, and to let us know about his whistle synthesizer that can help you make one. Links and Resources:

  
• 10.31.2021

  Short: Listening Like a Conlanger: Word Avoidance on the Internet

  George discusses word substitutions people use to avoid Internet censorship, and how that could be applied in worldbuilding. Original Script One of the interesting things you find in internet spaces is the presence of content filtering and the attempts to...

  
• 09.30.2021

  Short: Listening Like a Conlanger at Work

  George talks about some interesting terms he encountered in his most recent job, and how you can pay attention to language around you at work for inspiration. Original Script Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people...

  
• 08.09.2021

  Short: Infinite Fractal Complexity

  This episode, George gives a short discussion of the idea of language as having infinite fractal complexity, and what this means for conlangers building fictional worlds. Special Mention: Resources on the Line 3 protest: Stop Line 3, Center for Protest...

  
• 06.28.2021

  Jasper Charlet and Conlang Opera

  George talks to Jasper Charlet and his opera, Heyra, written entirely in the Carite language, which is currently in crowdfunding. Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati Links Heyra on Indiegogo Carite

  
• 06.14.2021

  Associated Motion

  William comes back on the show to tell us all about the category of Associated Motion. Links and Resources: Wikipedia – Andative and Venitive de la Fuente, J. A. A., & Jacques, G. (2017) Associated motion in Manchu in typological...

  
• 05.12.2021

  Interview with Kenan Kigunda

  George takes some time with Kenan Kigunda to talk about his conlang Zevy and how writing gets standardized. Top of show greeting: Fysh A Links and resources: Kenan’s LCC talk Zevy wordbook Zevy grammar notes Transcript coming soon!

  
• 04.05.2021

  Conlangery 148: Interview with Lauren Gawne

  George interviews Lauren Gawne of Superlinguo and Lingthusiasm about her work on Aramteskan for the Shadowscent book series as well as her other work with authors. Top of Show Greeting: Swedish (Umeå dialect, translated by Ruben Drott) Links and Resources:...

  
• 02.28.2021

  Conlangery Short 36: Another Personal Project Update

  George gives a little info about his current conlanging project, a set of naming languages for a story. Original Script (below the fold) Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley....

  
• 01.25.2021

  Conlangery Shorts 35: You Need a Conlang

  George wants to talk to writers, filmmakers, and creatives about how conlangs can benefit worldbuilding, and how you can go about getting one made. Links: Language Creation Society Resources Page LCS Jobs Board Original Script In this episode, I want...

  
• 11.16.2020

  Conlangery Shorts 34: Musings on Etymology

  George uses some research into the etymology of coronavirus to launch into a way to build a story around the etymology of a word. Links and Resources: Coronavirus on Wikipedia Almeida JD, Berry DM, Cunningham CH, Hamre D, Hofstad MS,...

  
• 07.17.2020

  Conlangery 147: Naming a disease

  George and Joey Windsor use the various names of COVID-19 as a jumping off point to talk about naming diseases. Note that this episode was recorded in May, and quite a lot has changed in the intervening time. Top of...

  
• 05.05.2020

  Conlangery Shorts 33: More Personal Conlanging

  George shares some ambitious plans for a new world with lots of naming languages. Links: Ankong Family Ingar Family X Family Lexifer Phonix Songs of the Eons Script: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who...

  
• 04.06.2020

  Conlangery 146: LangTime Studio

  George brings on David J Peterson and Jesse Sams to talk about their new livestreaming adventure, LangTime Studio. Top of Show Greeting: Nekāchti Transcript {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who...

  
• 02.27.2020

  Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy

  George brings on Ezekiel Fordsmender and Margaret Randsdell-Green to talk about techniques for creating polysemous lexical entries. Top of Show Greeting: Chicken Links and Resources: CLICS3 Wiktionary (esp. Arabic, Latvian, Scottish Gaelic words) STEDT Lakoff, G. (2008) Women, fire, and...

  
• 02.03.2020

  Conlangery 144: Conlanging for Dungeons and Dragons

  George brings on two conlanger DMs, Joey Windsor and David J Peterson, to discuss how to incorporate conlanging into Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. Top of Show Greeting: Boral (by Jack Keynes) Links and Resources: The 5E d20...

  
• 12.01.2019

  Conlangery Shorts 32: Lexember Themes

  George talks a little bit about how choosing a theme for Lexember can be helpful for your conlanging. Original script Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley. I went on...

  
• 11.03.2019

  Conlangery Shorts 31: Listen Like a Conlanger — Child Language

  George talks a little about little tidbits of his daughter’s linguistic development, and talks about how listening to child language might help conlangers find inspiration.

  
• 10.07.2019

  Conlangery 143: Music of Aeniith

  Margaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan Transcript {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George:                       Welcome to Conlangery,...

  
• 08.30.2019

  Conlangery 142: Mike McCubbins on Anasazi (comic)

  We bring Mike McCubbins on to talk about his new Kickstarter project, Anasazi, a comic which uses simple constructed written languages to tell a story in a visual medium. You can find the Kickstarter here! Top of Show Greeting: Salbécyk...

  
• 08.05.2019

  Conlangery 141: The Eighth Language Creation Conference

  George brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Top of Show Greeting: Bizhida Links: 8th Language Creation Conference Livestream: Day...

  
• 07.03.2019

  Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

  George and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated! Links and Resources: Croft, William. in preparation. Morphosyntax:...

  
• 06.03.2019

  Conlangery SHORTS 30: Revising a Grammar

  George spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers. You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes...

  
• 05.06.2019

  Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

  Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets joins us to talk to us about Ainu, a minority language of northern Japan. Top of Show Greeting: Bwángxùd by alr2569 (Translation Notes) Links and Resources: Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading A Topical Dictionary of...

  
• 04.08.2019

  Conlangery #138: Jessie Sams and Conlangs in the Classroom

  Jessie Sams comes on the show to talk to us about how she uses conlanging in the classroom. We discuss how these courses can be designed, what fields of linguistics they address well, and the results she saw from the...

  
• 03.05.2019

  Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect

  George and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things. Links and Resources: Agbo, M. (2010). Verb...

  
• 02.01.2019

  Conlangery SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduate

  George reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics. Script below the fold: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley,...

  
• 04.14.2018

  Conlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy Phonetics

  George gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month. ORIGINAL...

  
• 03.08.2018

  Conlangery #136: Nymeran with Colm Doyle

  Colm Doyle comes on to talk about his Nymeran language, created for the comic series Glow, as well as some of the process and challenges of making a conlang and script for comics. Top of Show Greeting: Vaq’ǫ̀ʔ Nąśą /vàqʼõ̀ʔ nã̀ʃã́/...

  
• 02.05.2018

  Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

  Joey Windsor and Christophe Grandsire-Koevets join George to discuss what tools we can get from more advanced linguistics theoretical frameworks. What tools do they provide the conlanger, and where do you have to be careful about applying them. Top of...

  
• 01.13.2018

  Conlangery SHORTS #27: #Lexember 2017 Wrap-up

  George discusses last year’s Lexember and some of the things that came out of that. Also, help us correct our transcripts on the Conlang Sources Wiki. What we reblogged on Tumblr. The Conlangery Twitter account. (Sorry, twitter search is bad,...

  
• 12.12.2017

  ANNOUNCEMENT: Patreon Fee Changes

  Conlangery Statement on Patreon Fee Changes (audio and transcript) We use Patreon to get a little money to pay some of the site fees and such for Conlangery. Our Patreon has grown some since it started, and I’m grateful to...

  
• 12.05.2017

  Conlangery #134: Converbs

  Today, Matt Pearson joins George and William to talk about non-finite “adverbial” verb forms called converbs. Top of Show Greeting: Old Niveni Links and Resources: Imperative Converb in Archi (conference abstract) Expressing adverbial relations in clause linkage with converbs: definitional...

  
• 11.26.2017

  Conlangery #133: Language and Identity

  Jake and Kaye come on to talk about how language can interact with identity, across ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class identities. Top of Show Greeting: Faikari. /ˈvɐ͡ɪ.kʰɒ.ˌʁi/ Links and Resources: Plural you Key and Peele skits 1, 2 Stigmatization...