Conlangery Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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

Carl Buck joins us to discuss his work as co-creator of Sangheili on Halo as well as his own personal conlanging work.

Links:

• Halo (TV series)
• Omyatloko Logosyllabary for Kala
• Carl’s Blog

George has obtained information on the conlang Rasharnian created for Immortals of Aveum. This is a critique of that language as well as a discussion of issues surrounding it that were brought up in the conlanging community.

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.

• Korsaya.org
• Senn

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.

Links and Resources:

• Wikipedia on Quirky Subject
• Subject cases in Sadani
• Oblique subjects in Slavic (handout/ PowerPoint)
• Warlpiri
• Comparative study with lots of examples from many languages
• Non-nominative subject in Oriya
• Okuna
• Another big comparative study
• Locative inversion in Otjiherero (Bantu)

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

Links and Resources:

• Real Character
• Caracteristica universalis
• aUI (Wikipedia, original site, a not-so-friendly review)
• Dnghu
• Babm
• Blissymbolics (official site, Wikipedia)
• Solresol

All there in the file.