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Jessie Peterson @quothalinguist.bsky.social · 2d

I received copies of my book, How to Create a Language, and couldn’t be happier! Thank you to the team at Cambridge University Press who made this dream a reality, and thank you to all my beautiful supporters! Especially thank you to @dedalvs.bsky.social for always encouraging me! #conlang

A photo of me holding a copy of my textbook. The title is How to Create a Language: The Conlang Guide.

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 4d

Have you tried evolving them from earlier forms? Look into the evolution of our alphabet from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Lots of conlangers will make a select few glyphs from an ancient logography and develop things from there.

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 4d

Streaming in about 20 minutes! We’re doing some more revisiting Ndăkaga. Specifically, I want to get an idea on how to turn the script into something more cursive for writing in spell books. www.youtube.com/live/RI3zHjf... #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg

Making a Cursive Script for Draconic

Continuing with the mid-season break, I'm going to do a quick revisit of the Epojenggid, Ndăkaga's native writing system, to develop a more cursive, stylus-w...

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 5d

I have received a copy of How to Create a Language by Jessie Peterson. Review coming soon!

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · 7d

Though the big news is @quothalinguist.bsky.social's new book #TheConlangGuide from @universitypress.cambridge.org is now available, she also created a tremendous resource for designing a #conlang stress system. It’s the #FiatLingua article for 2025 and available for download now! fiatlingua.org

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 8d

I believe one is being shipped to me soon, though I haven’t confirmed.

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Jessie Peterson @quothalinguist.bsky.social · 8d

My book officially out! #conlang

C. Buck (shh) @tlacamazatl.bsky.social · 8d

Hey @quothalinguist.bsky.social , I just got your book. It'll give me plenty to do during the gov shutdown. 👍

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the ten year anniversary of The Art of Language Invention! ~:D If you want to hear a bit about what went into it and what’s next, I’ll be live streaming at 2 p.m. Pacific on my YouTube channel (less than 30 minutes from now!). #conlang #language #aoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQL9...

The Art of Language Invention: 10 Year Anniversary

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 11d

In about 10 minutes we're having another Tongues and Runes. I've had so much fun with Draw Steel incantations that I just want to keep doing it! #conlang #language #linguistics youtube.com/live/u2AcCIN...

Let's Make Draconic Incantations for Draw Steel! 3 | Tongues and Runes SPECIAL

I'm doing another special stream to continue creating incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist class in Ndăkaga! We got through some of the Elementalist's ...

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C. Buck (shh) @tlacamazatl.bsky.social · 13d

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#conlang #neography #highvalyrian #gameofthrones

High Valyrian Review

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 18d

One hour until Tongues and Runes time! We're going to continue our work on Nd*ăkaga incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist. #conlang #language #linguistics #ttrpg #drawsteel youtube.com/live/xdqkJ74...

Let's Make Draconic Incantations for Draw Steel! | Tongues and Runes SPECIAL

I'm doing another special stream to continue creating incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist class in Ndăkaga! We got through some of the Elementalist's ...

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 19d

I had so much fun with my Draw Steel incantations I've decided to continue a second week! Join me tomorrow at 8AM Central Time! #conlang #language #linguistics #ttrpg #drawsteel youtube.com/live/xdqkJ74...

Let's Make Draconic Incantations for Draw Steel! | Tongues and Runes SPECIAL

I'm doing another special stream to continue creating incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist class in Ndăkaga! We got through some of the Elementalist's ...

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Logan R. Kearsley @gliese1337.bsky.social · 24d

#linguistics / #conlang / #comics Apparently _Dan Dare: Marooned on Mercury_ originally published in Eagle comics in the '50s, featured an alien Mercurian language, which may or may not (probably not) have been an actual worked-out conlang. Anybody know about this?

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 25d

In about an hour (8am CT), we have a very special Tongues and Runes, where I go back to Ndăkaga and create incantations for the Elementalist in the @hellomcdm.bsky.social RPG Draw Steel! Check it out! #conlang #language #linguistics #ttrpg #drawsteel youtube.com/live/-amuYaO...

Let's Make Draconic Incantations for Draw Steel! | Tongues and Runes SPECIAL

As a little break and an introduction for newer viewers, I'll be doing a special stream where I create incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist class in Nd...

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · 26d

For those headed to Los Angeles Comic Con, @quothalinguist.bsky.social and I will be presenting on our latest #Kryptonian #conlang from the recent #Superman film. Our presentation is Sept. 27th at 3:00 p.m. in room 405. Hope to see you there! #LACC

Kryptonian: A New Chapter. LACC SEPTEMBER 27th 3:00 p.m. Room 405 Jessie & David Peterson

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · 28d

This week’s Tongues and Runes will be a little different. I’m going to go back to Ndăkaga again to do incantations for Draw Steel by @hellomcdm.bsky.social. Let’s see if we can do this for a different game system. #conlang #language #linguistics #ttrpg #drawsteel

Let's Make Draconic Incantations for Draw Steel! | Tongues and Runes SPECIAL

As a little break and an introduction for newer viewers, I'll be doing a special stream where I create incantations for Draw Steel's Elementalist class in Nd...

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Sep 8

I interviewed short-form linguistics creator @human1011.bsky.social about his "Dragon Language" and doing conlanging and ling communication on shortform video. #conlang #language #linguistics youtu.be/ITCspEnU32c

Human1011 Made a Dragon Language!!!

I have a chat with linguistics short-form creator @humanteneleven about his language, itræχnâħyq̇, or Draconic. We compare it to my dragon language, Ndăkaga, and discuss the challenges of making…

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Sep 6

It's time for myself and Worldbuilding Pasta's stream for @madelinejames.bsky.social's Worldbuilding Festival. Tune in here in about 5 minutes to watch us hash out a naming language for Pasta's world! #conlang #language #linguistics #worldbuilding youtube.com/live/Wv7TZo4...

Let's Make a Naming Language for Pasta

As part of @MadelineJamesWorldbuilds ' Worldbuilding Festival, I help Worldbuilding Pasta create a naming language for their future sci-fi world.

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Sep 5

It's time for the Worldbuilding Festival to begin! We start with a worldbuilding challenge. I can't participate, but I'm excited to see what the contestants come up with! #worldbuilding youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Worldbuilding Festival

Streams for the 2025 Worldbuilding Festival being held on September 5-7th! Visit my website for more information and a newsletter signup!

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David J. Peterson @dedalvs.bsky.social · Sep 3

New #AoLI on color terms! #conlang youtu.be/CvsoXH_dlDU?...

The Art of Language Invention, Episode 30

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Sep 2

Reminder that I and a bunch of other creators will be live for @madelinejames.bsky.social ' Worldbuilding festival THIS WEEKEND! Hoping to see y'all there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueIf...

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Sep 2

Patrons have access to a new Conlangery Episode, where I talk to Human1011 about his dragon language! It'll be up for everyone on YouTube next week! #conlang #language #linguistics

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Aug 30

Streaming in about an hour (8am CT) with some wrap up figuring out the phonological inventory of our last Sylvan dialect and starting on the compromise inventory we'll need to go into koineization. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/ZzM0a5W...

Tongues and Runes S2E46

We're preparing for the koineization stage by finishing up our work analyzing the phonemic inventories of our four dialects and working on how to find a comp...

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Aug 25

I've got a new video on how I make conlang dictionaries! youtu.be/t42LelwO8zA?... #conlang #language #linguistics

What's the Best Tool to Make a Conlang Dictionary?

Enjoy Conlangery? Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conlangery Or go discuss this episode on Discord: https://discord.gg/RTE3gmMsgq ----- In which I discuss a few dictionary tools…

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Conlangery @conlangery.com · Aug 23

Internet Gods Willing, I will be streaming in about an hour (8am CT) with more Tongues and Runes. We're still working out some constructions in the Sylvan dialects before moving on to the koineization stage. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/ix9-_Sr...

Tongues and Runes S2E45

Syntactic constructions took a little longer, so we're going to be working on the dialect changes in them a little more before we move on to the koine.Enjoy ...

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