We talk about a Papua New Guinea language called Menya. Follow along here.

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George recorded a special interview with David J Peterson and Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets to talk about some recent events at the Language Creation Society.

Today we interview conlanger Britton Watkins about his journey from natlang enthusiasm through Vulcan and Na’vi fandom to creating a conlang for his and his husband’s ‘nano-budget’ movie.

Bianca tells us a little about the verbal system of Uskra, one of her conlangs, and how she played with giving grammatical forms multiple uses.

George and William have a discussion of those times when the subject isn’t in the case you might expect it to be in.

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Today we talk about a bunch of wacky and wonderful auxlangs.

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All there in the file.

We go over politeness theory and discuss its implications for creating interesting conlangs and concultural interactions.

Top of Show Greeting: Zametulian

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Today, William is gone, but we have Christophe Grandsire-Koevets on as a special guest to discuss one of his favorite natlang inspirations, Basque.

Top of Show Greeting: Palethian

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We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, with a couple of tangents here and there.

Top of Show Greeting: Danish (translated by Samuel Kilsholm)

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