Today, after a brief digression about Pahlavi, we get into last year’s Smiley winner Kash. Links Cindu website David Peterson’s Smiley writeup http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery117.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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Today we take some time to suggest a few books that conlangers should check out. Linguistics Books Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press. Bybee, J., Perkins, R., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. University of Chicago… Read more »
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George gives another short about what you can do with your Lexember words after lexember. http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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In this short episode, George puts together some of his favorites from the last Lexember! Also, a note, he also wrote a thing for Fiat Lingua. #Lexember #kardak #conlang #conscript #WOD #29 #languages pic.twitter.com/sAWio7VyXo — DachiiKardak (@dachiikardak) December 30, 2015 http://olilonien.tumblr.com/post/135933221852/lexember-day-25 http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort20.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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Victor Raymond joins us today to talk about the language Tsolyáni, created by MAR Barker and implemented in his campaign setting Tékumel in Empire of the Petal Throne. Top of Show Greeting: Proto-Continental Links and Resources: Tékumel official site Tékumel Foundation The Tsolyáni Language The Tsolyáni Primer All Tekumel books on DriveThruRPG http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery115.mp3Podcast: Play in… Read more »
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This month Britton joined us and we talked about the wonders of reduplication and nicknames in Thai. Top of Show Greeting: Dzuish (English-based conlang) Wikipedia on Thai Thai-language.com Noss, R. B. (1964). Thai reference grammar. Foreign Service Institute. Haiman, J. (2013). Decorative morphology in Khmer. In The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in …… Read more »
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Top of Show Greeting: Zametulian Announcements Radio West interview and Video West feature of Trent Pehrson The Art of Language Invention (George’s review, William’s review) Links and Resources Lamoureaux, S. V. D. (2004). Applicative Constructions in Maasai. Linguistics, (August). Austin, P. K. (2005). Causative and applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal Languages. The Dative and Related… Read more »
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In this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film is released next year. You can see information on… Read more »
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Just pushing out a quick announcement: Conlangery is currently moving to new audio hosting. It looks like the first 31 episodes are going to be unavailable for a little bit. There may also be odd hiccups with the feed. Should clear up quickly, though. EDIT: Migration should be complete now. If anyone has feed issues,… Read more »
George discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China. NOTE: We’re going to change how our audio is hosted soon. This might mean some oddness in the feeds in the coming weeks. http://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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