Conlang and worldbuilding resources
These are links to conlanging and worldbuilding resources I have found useful. I cannot guarantee the information will be 100% credible for any of the links provided.
General
- A list of research resources
- Conlang code registry
- Essentials of linguistics
- Fiat lingua
- HH conlanging guide CBB
- Hypomnemata
- Latex for linguists
- Neanderthal speech paper
- Questions about your language
- Share me your outline
- Standardised grammar format
- Superbasic conlang starterpack
- The BG language creation guide
- The Lingua Descriptive Studies Questionnaire
- Xenolinguistics
- Universals
- Universals archive
- Worldbuilding workshop: naming language
- Zompist adv
- Zompist LCK
- Zompist planet
- Conlangs University
Communities
- CBB, "Conlang bullitin board"
- Conlang mailing list
- Conworkshop
- Deviantart conlangers
- Deviantart worldbuiders
- ZBB, Zompist bullitin board, again
- Anthologi
Blogs
- Acta lingweenie
- Colingorrie
- Kleptomaniac's conlang
- Nostragothic
- Quothalinguist
- Sai
- Toaq
- Language Creation Society newsletter I'm not sure what's going on with this "conlang.org", it's straight up awfully designed, looks abandoned and has a lot of link rot, but these old newsletter articles are worth reading.
- Johnathan Palmer
Wikis
YouTube and podcasts
- Around the Campfire
- Artefexian
- Artes Ignotas
- Biblaridion
- Conlangery episodes
- Jan Misali, The Conlang Critic
- John Quijada
- K Klein
- Langtime Studio
- Language Creation Society
- Lichen the Fictioneer
- Monster garden.
- Nakari Speardane
- Simulanger
- Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain | Big Think
- The Art of Language Invention
- Theory Neutral
- Zzineohp. Note: This man offers no pronunciation guide on his channel's name. I'm guessing it's [zed.ˈzi.nəʊp]
Sound change appliers
- ASCA
- Brassica
- Command Line SCA
- Derive!
- Didelphis ...AKA "Haedus SCA"
- Featured Sound Change Applier
- Geoff's Sound Change Applier (GSCA)
- IPA Zounds
- Kaththedragon's SCE and it's Github repo, "Conlanger"
- LangEvolve
- Lexurgy
- Lingua
- LoanPy
- Nesca
- Onset
- Owen Bechtel's Sound-Change
- Phono
- Reversible Sound Change Applier (RSCA)
- Richard Wordingham’s Sound Change Applier
- Phonix
- Zompist's sound change applier, AKA "SCA²"
- SCA++ (for C++, discontinued)
- Soundchange (for Rust)
- Sound Change Transducers
- Tadpole
- TriSCA
- Ursus
Word generators
- Cofeebot's word generator
- ConGen
- Gleb
- GLOM
- Jasontank's GenWords
- Kozuka
- LanguGen
- Lexifer
- Logopoeist
- Mikowitz's "Conlang"
- Monke word generator
- Oneo's word generator
- Phono-word-gen
- Wrdz
- Vocabug
- Vocabug-lite
- Vulgarlang
- Zompist's Gen
Dictionary creators
- Donut
- HTML dictionary maker
- LangPad
- Lexique Pro
- PolyGlot
- Sheet2Dict
- SIL Toolbox
- The ultimate dictionary
- Tollerus
- RootTrace
Databases
- Conlang database and add conlang
- EvoSem
- Grambank
- Pbase
- Phoible
- Semantic domains
- South American phoneme database
- WALS
Phonology
- APTA converter
- Balancing vowel inventories
- Guide to Sound Changes
- Harmony Systems
- High vowel fricativization
- How to make a phonology
- Incatena: Tones
- Interactive Sagittal Section
- IPA keyboard and XSAMPA converter
- IPA typeit
- List of sound changes
- Metathesis
- PanPhon
- Paper on nasals
- Patterns of allophony
- Regular Models of Phonological Rule Systems
- Retroflex consonants
- Searchable Diacronica
- SLIPA: An IPA for Signed Languages
- Sound symbolism motivations paper
- The Frequentizer
- Tone for conlangers
- Vowel systems
Syntax
- Grambidextrous
- Interlinear gloss generator
- Glossary of linguistic terms
- Leipzig Glossing rules
- Prosodic hierachy
- Syntactic alignment and pivot constraints
- Syntax tree generator
- Syntax descriptor language
- Why are some word orders more common than others
- Word order universals table
- Predilex
Lexical things
- CLICS
- Conlanger's Thesaurus
- Grammaticalization Pathways
- Emotional univerals
- Etymology database
- Intro to Lexical Typology
- Python project that you train on a wordlist to generate new words
- Sentence list
- The Derivizer
- Three Lexicon building tools
- Ways in which a word can be related to another word
- Wordsees
Grammar
- Clause Chaining, Switch Reference and Coordination
- Converbs
- Creating tri-consonantal roots
- Defining Non-finites: Action Nominals, Converbs and Infinitives
- Ergativity for novices
- Finiteness and nonfinite verb forms
- Gender assignment
- Gender assignment paper
- Glossing and the case against morphology
- IAL morphology
- MalakMalak verb functions
- Notes on ergativity
- So-called “conjunct/disjunct”
- Temporal ontology and temporal reference
- The placement of the head that maximizes predictability
- Verbal diminutives
Neography
- Conscripter
- Fantasy script tutorial
- Flavan script
- Fontstruct
- Kwamenese script family
- More Clawgrip advice
- Neography.info Writing systems
- Omniglot
- On generating ideograms 1
- On generating ideograms 2
- Unicode character recognition
- Unicode has a block from U+E000 to U+F8FF reserved for "private use", which will never officially be used. They're mostly meant to support writing systems Unicode doesn't support. So you could assign characters to code points in this block, make a font that uses them, and type up glyphs from your conlang without unintended side-effects. This block has 6400 code-points; you can have up to that many glyphs. If that's not enough, though, you can use almost everything from U+F0000 to U+10FFFF... over 131,000 characters!
- Unscripted
Teach your conlang to others
- Duolingo in Scratch
- Lingojam: Make your own translator
- Mini-lang
- Oppia
- Peach: homebrew your own Duolingo
- Vocaroo
Conlangs
- Afrihili
- Arrival movie language
- Balaybalan
- Ebisédi
- Himmaswa
- Ithkuil
- Marshlandic
- Ma'alahi
- Okuna dictionary
- Okuna grammar
- Sajem Tan
- Siinyamda
- Ta'agra project
- Tapissary
- Tengwar, but this site is bad
- Toki Pona
- Tolkien
Natlangs
- Collections of grammars and other things 1 and 2
- Czech Phonotactics
- Japanese resource list
- Kunjen dictionary
- Kunjen phonology
- Language plural rulesa
- Making athabaskan dictionaries usable
- Marshallese vowels
- Ndebele colour terms
- Old Irish
- Phonotactics of Urdu
- PIE grammar
- Reduplication in Ju|’hoansi
- Seri stress
- Swahili noun classes
- The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong
- Vowel harmony in Jingulu
Worldbuilding
- Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
- Brandon Sanderson videos on worldbuilding
- C.M Koseman
- CivGen
- Furaha biology
- Procedural tectonic planets
- Songs of the eons
- Tellurus
- World History Sim
- WordMuncher world building program
Map generators
- Chronographer
- Fun with plate tectonics
- GProjector
- Map generation
- Tectonics.js
- Using GPlates
- Using Tectonics.js
- Wilbur and photoshop
- Wilbur: Fun with wilbur
- Wilbur: Rivers
- Wilbur: Rivers and lakes
- Wilbur: From a black and white outline
Generic programs
- Anki
- Conlang studio
- Gloss gen
- Language construction tool
- Minimal Pairs Finder
- Obsidian
- Obsidian Gloss
- The guide
- Webonary
- Zim wiki
Fun stuff
Cypher...ing
Neocities
- Jan Nanseki
- journey-to-trinea
- Nicojamal
- Niixlo
- lipu-lili-pona
- Aspenland
- Bdkcorrigan
- Asuune
- Cenysor
- reyzadren
- alerojorela
- rains-sky
- Maple Karine
- Kelas
Yet to be categorised
- Guide thing
- R*dd*t sound change guide
- R*dd*t answers to where
- R*dd*t Symmetrical voice
- R*dd*t Nonconcatnative
- R*dd*t Semantic primes
- Anthologi
- Lingomancy
- Worldbuilding Pasta
- Ninety-Eights and Ninety-Nines
- Forgottenlanguages
- Kulwel
- Bad conlanging ideas
- Notreallynoah
- Readingglosses
- Nickname names
- The translation of onomatopoeias across languages
- Langwyrm
- E4: Narrowing Syntax — Backyard Biolinguistics
- Making Vowel Plots in R (Part 1)
- Proto-Algonquian Verbs
- presentationtemplate.pdf
- How to Read a Gloss
- Hisyeo
- Worldbuilding Pasta
- Miidashgeget
- YAML
- Resources for World Builders
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Old Chinese Type A/B
- The Naming of Bird Sounds
- Blog Post 2380
- Conlinguistics.org Blog
- Inventing Languages: How to Teach Linguistics to School Students
- Using Your Conlang Without Ruining Your Story
- Tapissary
- "Elfing"
- Kelutral
- Learn navi
- Dothraki
- Lojban around the world
- Geopoeia
- Vulpinoid
- Grapheion
- Lemmy.world conlangs
- Lets have a bouba
- Levunalangs
- Lexicanter, and it's Github repo
