Episodes
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The Future of Conlangery
An update on my plans for the channel.
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An Autistic Conlang
In this episode, I spoke with Gideon Henner about his language Laut, a thought experiment on how to create a language to illustrate some of the communication differences autistic people have. Links:
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Musiclanging with Jonathan
I interviewed Jonathan of @levunalangs about their musical conlangs, Sdefa and Amnenas!
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Human1011 Made a Dragon Language!!!
I have a chat with linguistics short-form creator Human1011 about his language, itræχnâħyq̇, or Draconic. We compare it to my dragon language, Ndăkaga, and discuss the challenges of making short form conlanging content. Links and Resources:
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Kopikon, Superman, and more with David and Jessie!
David and Jessie of @LangTimeStudio come on with an update on their conlangy projects. Check out Kopikon II Preorder Jessie’s book, How to Create a Language Superman (2025)
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Subordinate Clauses with William!
William Annis has come back to the show to talk to us about subordinate clauses! This will be a broad overview of the topic, which we may dive deeper on in future episodes. Links and resources: Lingweenie: https://lingweenie.org/conlang/ Wikipedia on balancing and deranking:...
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Andrea Weilgart and the Language of Space
We have a special episode today. Andrea Weilgart, the daughter of W. John Weilgart, the creator of aUi, came on to discuss her father’s language and her work to continue his legacy. aUi website The Ersatz Academy
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Madeline James on Conlanging for Writing
I had a nice discussion with author Madeline James about how she has just begun learning conlanging to create naming languages and formulaic spells. Join us as we discuss how she focuses on limited conlangs for the needs of her story and about her journey learning the craft. You can see a...
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ZeWei Discusses Conlang Music and Cursed Pronouns
Today, ZeWei joins us to talk about their music and conlanging, as well as the Cursed Conlang Circus and more. ZeWei’s channel.
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Conlangery Has a Bouba
Jake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.
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Carl Buck on Conlanging for Halo
Carl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work. Links:
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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/
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Interview with Artifexian
I talked to Artifexian about his work on Abheski and the new conlanging community on YouTube.
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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!
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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…
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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.
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Announcement for Tongues and Runes
I’m announcing a new streaming series: Tongues and Runes. You can find the first stream scheduled here.
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CD Covington’s Guide to Linguistic Worldbuilding
George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter. Links:
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Interview with Biblaridion
George interviews Biblaridion on conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.
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David and Jessie Talk Kopikon
George has David and Jesse on to talk about Kopikon! Links:
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George’s talk at LCC10
Here’s the audio of my talk at LCC10. The video version can be seen here.
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Announcements: LCC10 and Kopikon
We have two conlang conferences coming up this year. LCC10 is this weekend, and in September, we’ll have Kopikon!
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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. Original Script
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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
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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!
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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:
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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 get around them. On the one hand, the...
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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 who create them. I’m George Corley. Today, I...
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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 Law and Litigation, Sierra Club Fact Sheet,...
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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
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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 perspective. Language and Linguistics. 語言暨語言學, 19(4), 501–524....
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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!
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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. I thought it was time for another personal...
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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 to talk to authors, directors, and other...
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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, Mallucci L, McIntosh K, Tyrrell DA (November 1968). “Virology:...
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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 Show Greeting: Chátsu Special mentions (from top of show note): A list of BLM...
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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 create them. I’m...
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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 Standard Reference Document Matt Colville’s YouTube...
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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 social media recently to ask what people wanted covered...
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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.
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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, the podcast about…
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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 / Salbekian
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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 1, Day 2
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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…
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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 below. Script below the fold, see the history here. Welcome...
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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 Conversational Ainu Bugaeva, A. (2004)....
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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 course. Jessie also requested the following message be added to the notes: I…
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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 classification and Aktionsart in Ìgbò....
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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, and we’re back! We’re going to have…
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