Conlangery Podcast
by Conlangery PodcastThe podcast about constructed languages
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Episodes
Conlangery #29: Sound Systems and Romanization
1h 2m · Published
After some discussion of one little New York Times article that quoted William(!), we move along to talking about designing your sound system and romanization, though it’s mostly about romanization. After that, we break a pattern and for the first time feature a natlang rather than a conlang — going from a grammar that just... Read more »
Conlangery #28: “Correlatives” (well, mostly indefinites)
1h 10m · Published
A very special guest host joins us for this episode, where we try to talk about correlatives as a thing, but as correlatives is actually many different things, we end up just talking about indefinites the whole time. We have much more Top of Show Greeting:pr̝̊ɛmɪsl Links and Resources: Esperanto correlatives WALS on Indefinites Featured... Read more »
Conlangery #27: Irregularity
1h 2m · Published
We start off with a reccomendation of sorts of the Speculative Grammarian Podcast, and George’s own long post on romanization. Then we get into the meat of the show talking about all kinds of irregularity and “regular irregularity”. Then we take a 180-degree turn and talk about the insanely regular Esperanto. Top of Show Greeting:... Read more »
Conlangery #26: “Emphasis”
52m · Published
We talk about one of William’s pet peeves in conlang descriptions and linguistics in general: the overuse of the word “emphasis”. We start out with some very strong reccomendations against using it in phonology, and then talk about some more standard terms you might use instead when talking about discourse or syntax. We also review... Read more »
Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice
1h 7m · Published
We have a guest on, Olle Heikilä, who we totally didn’t forget to add to the Skype call, and have a nice discussion on grammatical voice and what it’s for, what you can include, and just in general. If you believe what your English teacher taught you about voice, prepare to be disabuse. We also... Read more »
Conlangery #24: Possession
48m · Published
After some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi. Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian Conlang: Abakwi Feedback: Email from Matt Pearson: Hi George, I finally had a... Read more »
Conlangery #23: Alien Languages
51m · Published
We talk a little about what we like and dislike about alien languages — and what concepts we think are actually likely to work. Then we reveiw Ebisédian. Top of Show Greeting:Cardonian Conlang: Ebisédian Feedback: Five-Star Reviews: Great for both people interested in conlanging and linguistics in general by stingerbrg I’m fairly new at the... Read more »
Conlangery #22: Pronouns
57m · Published
George’s father has pragmatics issues, but anyway … pronouns! (Almost) every language is going to have pronouns of some sort. We talk all kinds — closed-class, open-class, free, clitic, and even having pronouns forbizarrelyspecific people. Also, we review Baranxe’i Links and Resources: Swahili concord(alternate) Mixtec Xavante (look for the reference to a’ama) WALS on demonstratives... Read more »
Conlangery #21: Poetry
59m · Published
Bianca’s out for this episode, so William and I take the opportunity to talk about something she hates so much she wouldn’t let us have a show about it: poetry! Figure out how to choose good poetic devices for your conlang, and how history can affect the complexity of poetry. Also we talk about the... Read more »
Conlangery #20: Ideophones
53m · Published
We talk about ideophones, a fun, fun class of words that describe a general feeling. We also review a language that’s not quite an elflang, so William doesn’t quite hate it. Top of Show Greeting: Dothraki Links and Resources The Ideophone Ideophone definition Japanese ideophones Daniel Tammet inventing an ideophone Featured Conlang: Old Albic Feedback:... Read more »
Conlangery Podcast has 209 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 174:24:21. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 31st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 31st, 2024 06:43.
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