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

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)

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.

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

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.

Today, ZeWei joins us to talk about their music and conlanging, as well as the Cursed Conlang Circus and more.

ZeWei’s channel.

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

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/

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