Conlangery Podcast

Feb 17 2025 200 ep. 50 mins 2.4k

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Conlangery is the podcast for language creators and enthusiasts of constructed languages. We cover conlangs, natural languages, and linguistics topics in order to share techniques and inspiration with the community.

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Madeline James on Conlanging for Writing

Feb 17 2025 65 mins

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 continuation of this... Read more »

ZeWei Discusses Conlang Music and Cursed Pronouns

Jan 20 2025 51 mins

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

Jul 29 2024 58 mins

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

Carl Buck on Conlanging for Halo

Jun 10 2024 58 mins

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

Feb 27 2024 50 mins

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

Jan 22 2024 59 mins

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

Cursed Conlanging with Agma Schwa

Dec 22 2023 56 mins

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

Nov 27 2023 58 mins

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 Crafting Tongues A Guide to Barsoom by John Flint Roy Possible and Probable Langu

Can ChatGPT Create a Language?

Oct 31 2023 55 mins

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 for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are the

Marc Okrand on Klingon and Conlanging

Oct 30 2023 57 mins

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.