Conlangery Podcast

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 jo…

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.

Conlangery Has a Bouba

Jake and Miles of Let’s have a Bouba come on to talk about conlanging on YouTube.

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:

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/

Interview with Artifexian

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

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!

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

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.

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.