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Conlangery Podcast

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  • #173
    March 9 · 1 hr 5 min

    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: Introduction to Laut Upcoming site for autistic conlangers

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  • #172
    Dec 16, 2025 · 56 min

    Musiclanging with Jonathan

    I interviewed Jonathan of @levunalangs about their musical conlangs, Sdefa and Amnenas!

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  • S1 · E171
    Sep 8, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min

    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: WIP itræχnâħyq̇ grammar WIP itræχnâħyq̇ dictionary

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  • #170
    Jul 29, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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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  • #169
    Jun 23, 2025 · 55 min

    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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_and_deranking Dixon, Robert M. W., and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Cristofaro, Sonia. “Is There Really a Syntactic Category of Subordination?” In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski, and Helena Sorva, 249:73–91. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.249.03cri. Wälchli, Bernhard. “Selectives (‘Topic Markers’) on Subordinate Clauses.” Linguistics 60, no. 5 (September 27, 2022): 1539–1617. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0242. Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. “4 A Medial Clause Does It All: Coherence, Continuity, and Addressee Involvement in Manambu.” In Celebrating Indigenous Voice, edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, and Pema Wangdi, 73–94. De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789836-004. Dahlstrom, Amy. “15 Clause Combining: Syntax of Subordination and Complementation.” In The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America, edited by Carmen Dagostino, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice, 345–62. De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600926-015. Shibatani, Masayoshi. “12. Nominalization in Crosslinguistic Perspective.” In Handbook of Japanese Contrastive Linguistics, edited by Prashant Pardeshi and Taro Kageyama, 345–410. De Gruyter, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514077-013.

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  • May 20, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

    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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  • #167
    Feb 17, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 continuation of this conversation on Madeline’s channel here.

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  • #165
    Jul 29, 2024 · 58 min

    Conlangery Has a Bouba

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

  • #164
    Jun 10, 2024 · 58 min

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

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  • #163
    Feb 27, 2024 · 50 min

    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/

  • Jan 22, 2024 · 59 min

    Interview with Artifexian

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

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  • #161
    Dec 22, 2023 · 56 min

    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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  • Nov 27, 2023 · 58 min

    Talking Movie Conlanging with Paul Frommer

    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 Languages by Frederick J. Newmeyer

  • Oct 31, 2023 · 55 min

    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, and Luciano Pietronero. “Zipf’s Law for Cosmic Structures: How Large Are the Greatest Structures in the Universe?” Astronomy & Astrophysics 651 (July 2021): A114. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141081. Gabaix, X. “Zipf’s Law for Cities: An Explanation.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 3 (August 1, 1999): 739–67. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556133. Li, Wentian. “Analyses of Baby Name Popularity Distribution in U.S. for the Last 131 Years.” Complexity 18, no. 1 (September 2012): 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21409. Wang, Ding, Haibo Cheng, Ping Wang, Xinyi Huang, and Gaopeng Jian. “Zipf’s Law in Passwords.” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12, no. 11 (November 2017): 2776–91. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2017.2721359. Links The Tweet that stared this: https://twitter.com/JPSoucy/status/1638747703332175872?s=20 Genlangs and Zipf’s law data https://github.com/Justin-Diamond/genlangs-and-zipfs Law brief article https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/

  • #158
    Oct 30, 2023 · 57 min

    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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  • Oct 5, 2023 · length unknown

    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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  • #157
    Aug 16, 2023 · 49 min

    CD Covington’s Guide to Linguistic Worldbuilding

    George talks to CD Covington about her upcoming book about linguistic worldbuilding, funding through Kickstarter. Links: The Kickstarter SFF Linguistics YouTube Channel The Tor Column A post about the Kickstarter

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  • #156
    Jul 30, 2023 · 57 min

    Interview with Biblaridion

    George interviews Biblaridion on conlanging, worldbuilding, and YouTube.

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