At the undergraduate level at MIT there is a course within the linguistics program creating a lot of buzz: 24.917 Constructed Languages. Taught by Professor Norvin Richards, this course aims to get students interested in linguistics by having them create their own languages from scratch.

Audio transcript: https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2019-transcript-audio-feature-build-your-own-language-24917

Written, produced and performed by: Melanie Gonick/MIT News

Co-producer: Christine Daniloff/MIT

Featured (in order of appearance): Alyssa Wells-Lewis, Shiloh Curtis, Joseph Noszek, Norvin Richards and Lulu Russell.