Conlangery Podcast

George brings on Ezekiel Fordsmender and Margaret Randsdell-Green to talk about techniques for creating polysemous lexic... Read more

George brings on two conlanger DMs, Joey Windsor and David J Peterson, to discuss how to incorporate conlanging into Dun... Read more

This week, we are going to focus on a language you’ve probably heard us talk about quite a bit in passing: Ancient Greek... Read more

Today it’s just George and William talking about the wonders of Navajo. Mostly William talking, as he knows more about i... Read more

Today, Matt Pearson joins George and William to talk about non-finite “adverbial” verb forms called converbs. Top of Sho... Read more

This month Britton joined us and we talked about the wonders of reduplication and nicknames in Thai. Top of Show Greetin... Read more

David Peterson joins us to talk about pidgins and creoles and what conlangers (and linguists) can learn from them. Top o... Read more

Suzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed. You can now support Conlangery on Patreon! William ... Read more

This episode, we discuss Coptic, the last descendant of thousands of years of Ancient Egyptian, now spoken mainly as a l... Read more

Today we talk to you all about vowel harmony, taking Turkish, Finnish, Moro, and Mongolian as case studies to help you f... Read more

Alternate Title: Genders, Classes, and Agreement, oh my! We talk today all about gender.  Or noun class.  Or both.  Real... Read more

The first of our episodes of the holy verbal trinity of TAM.  We initially planned to do Tense and Aspect as one episode... Read more

We go over the basic premise of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and it’s (limited) usefulness to naturalistic conlanging, wit... Read more

We welcome Matt Boutilier on to talk about Old Irish, from the destruction of verb roots due to initial stress, to how y... Read more

We go over politeness theory and discuss its implications for creating interesting conlangs and concultural interactions... Read more

Today, we take a little time to talk about the topic of polysynthesis Top of Show Greeting: Gothic (translated by Roman ... Read more

George gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcriptio... Read more

Joey Windsor and Christophe Grandsire-Koevets join George to discuss what tools we can get from more advanced linguistic... Read more

It took us two tries, but we managed to record an episode focusing entirely on tone systems.  Learn about how tonal lang... Read more