Helpful links for language creation

A conlang FAQ - What is a conlang?

Zompist.com - A great site with lots of well done conlangs, a great conworld, as well as an excellent forum.

The Kutjara Wiki - The unofficial wiki for the people of the zompist bboard. It contains some good stuff, though it has alot of crap as well.

Langmaker.com - A place with entries for conlangs, babel texts and other stuff. Note the very liberal definition on 'conlang' though.

Omniglot - A site with a lot of different writing systems, both for conlangs and natlangs.

Leipzig glossing rules - A good resource when you want to gloss things from your language.

Glossary of linguistic terms - Linguistical terms detailly explained.

The universals archive - Check out language universals here.

Artlangs.com - Another conlang community.

Essays on artificial language design - What the link says.

The language construction kit - Actually a part of zompist.com but it is so great that it deserves an entry of its own.

How to create a language - Another conlang kit, based on the zompist one.

How to make good glosses - What it says.

Unilang.org - A big language community, with lots of resources and a big forum. Not really much conlanging on it though.

Ancient scripts - A page about old script systems.

The conlang mailing list - A mailing list for conlanging in general.

IPA Keyboard - Write with IPA symbols.

A survey of some vowel systems - Excellent information when you're working with vowels.

IPA symbols with X-sampa values - Good when you want to switch system.


Links to individual conlangs and conworlds

A grammar to the Arêndron language - Not updated for a while but it is worked on. Don't forget to check this language's entry on KutjaraWiki.

Kadreilia - An excellent conworld with some great languages, have a special look at Kardii.

Qatama - A very simple language, but yet it has a very special feeling attached to it.

Alurhsa - A very developed conlang and is certainly worthy to have a look at.

Ardalambion - A site for all of Tolkien's languages.

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