Conlang and worldbuilding resources
This is a list of conlanging and worldbuilding resources I have found useful. I cannot guarantee the information will be 100% credible for any of the links provided.
'Essentials'
- Constructing A Naming Language
- Hypomnemata Glossopoetica
- Presentation Template
- Questions about your language
- Standardised grammar format
- Superbasic conlang starterpack
- The BG language creation guide
- The Lingua Descriptive Studies Questionnaire
- Types of conlangs
- Using Your Conlang Without Ruining Your Story
Blogs
- Acta Lingweenie (Wm. Annis)
- Colingorrie
- Conlinguistics.org Blog
- Fiat lingua: An archive of conlang articles
- Keras Saryan
- Kleptomaniac's Conlang (Tryddle)
- Langmaker, Arkaia
- Nostragothic
- Notreallynoah
- Quothalinguist (Jessie Peterson)
- Readingglosses
- Sai
- Toaq (Blog about the conlang Toaq)
- Language Creation Society newsletter (Abandoned?)
- Johnathan Palmer
- Ninety-Eights and Ninety-Nines
- Bad conlanging ideas (Tumblr)
- Langwyrm
Neocities
- Alerojorela
- Alternian
- Aspenland
- Asuune
- Avery Lychee Languages
- Bdkcorrigan
- Cenysor
- Jan Nanseki
- Journey-to-trinea
- Kelas
- lipu-lili-pona
- Maple Karine
- Nicojamal
- Niixlo
- rains-sky
- reyzadren
Communities
- Anthologi
- CBB, "Conlang Bulletin Board"
- Conlang mailing list
- Conlangs University
- Conworkshop
- Deviantart conlangers
- Deviantart worldbuilders
- Lemmy.world conlangs
- ZBB, Zompist Bullitin Board, again
YouTube and podcasts
- Around the Campfire: Worldbuilding and conlanging
- Artefexian: Worldbuilding and conlanging
- Artes Ignotas
- Biblaridion: Worldbuilding and conlanging
- Conlangery episodes
- Jan Misali, formerly known as "The Conlang Critic"
- John Quijada: Music in Ithkuil
- K Klein
- Langtime Studio with David and Jessie
- Language Creation Society / Fiat Lingua
- Lets have a bouba
- Levunalangs
- Lichen the Fictioneer
- Monster garden: Worldbuilding and digital drawing
- 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 guide on how to pronounce the channel name. I'm guessing it's [zed.ˈzi.nəʊp]
Books
- A list of research resources
- Advanced Language Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder
- Essentials of linguistics
- Inventing Languages, by Carolina González
- Language Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder
- Syntactic Structures, by Noam Chomsky: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Dense and old but important
- The Art of Language Invention, By David Peterson
- Zompist planet
Wikis
Sound change appliers
- ASCA
- Brassica
- Command Line SCA
- Derive! (web app)
- Didelphis ...AKA "Haedus SCA" (For Java; not maintained; need to compile a .tex file to read the manual)
- Geoff's Sound Change Applier (GSCA) (For Python; not maintained)
- IPA Zounds (For Python)
- Kaththedragon's SCE and it's Github repo, "Conlanger"
- LangEvolve
- Lexurgy
- Lingua
- LoanPy
- Nesca
- Onset
- Owen Bechtel's Sound-Change
- Phono
- Phonix
- Reversible Sound Change Applier (RSCA)
- Richard Wordingham’s Sound Change Applier
- SCA++ (For C++; discontinued)
- Soundchange (for Rust)
- Sound Change Transducers
- Tadpole
- TriSCA
- Ursus (Web app)
- Zompist's sound change applier, AKA "SCA²"
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
- Vocabug
- Vocabug-lite
- Vulgarlang
- Wordsees
- Wrdz
- Zompist's Gen
Dictionary creators
- ConDict (for Mac users)
- Donut (PHP based)
- Fieldworks
- LangPad
- Language Construction Tool
- Lexicanter, and its Github repo
- Lexique Pro
- Lingomancy
- PolyGlot (Java app)
- RootTrace (Proto Lexicon reconstructor for conlangers)
- Sheet2Dict
- SIL Toolbox
- The ultimate dictionary
- Tollerus
Fun stuff
- Cooljugator
- Conlang studio
- Etymology online: For English
- Fanlang
- Glossary gen
- List of pangrams
- Minimal Pairs Finder
- Pinktrombone
- Python project that you train on a wordlist to generate new words
- Relatedwords.io
Conlangs
- Afrihili
- "Elfing"
- Arrival movie language
- Balaybalan
- Dothraki
- Ebisédi
- Himmaswa
- Hisyeo
- Ithkuil
- Kelutral Na'vi resources
- Learn navi
- Lojban around the world
- Ma'alahi
- Marshlandic
- Okuna dictionary
- Okuna grammar
- Sajem Tan
- Siinyamda
- Ta'agra project
- Tapissary
- Tapissary
- Tengwar, but this site is bad
- Toki Pona
- Tolkien
- Viossa
Neography
- Conscripter
- Fantasy script tutorial
- Flavan script
- Fontstruct
- Grapheion
- 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". 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
- Anki
- Duolingo in Scratch
- Inventing Languages: How to Teach Linguistics to School Students
- Lingojam: Make your own translator
- Mini-lang
- Oppia
- Peach: homebrew your own Duolingo
- Vocaroo
Documentation
Xenolinguistics & animals
Linguistic & conlang 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
- HH conlanging guide CBB
- 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 Index Diacronica
- SLIPA: An IPA for Signed Languages
- Sound symbolism motivations paper
- The Frequentizer
- Tone for conlangers
- Vowel systems
Typology
Syntax
- Glossary of linguistic terms
- Grambidextrous
- Interlinear gloss generator
- Leipzig Glossing rules
- Backyard Biolinguistics: Narrowing Syntax
- Predilex
- 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
Lexicon
- CLICS
- Conlanger's Thesaurus
- Grammaticalization Pathways
- Emotional univerals
- Etymology database
- Intro to Lexical Typology
- Sentence list
- The Derivizer
- Three Lexicon building tools
- Ways in which a word can be related to another word
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 paper
- Glossing and the case against morphology
- IAL morphology
- Lingbuzz
- Notes on ergativity
- So-called “conjunct/disjunct”
- Temporal ontology and temporal reference
- The placement of the head that maximizes predictability
- Verbal diminutives
Natlangs
- Czech Phonotactics
- Collections of grammars and other things 1 and 2
- Japanese resource list
- Kunjen dictionary
- Kunjen phonology
- Language plural rules
- Making athabaskan dictionaries usable
- MalakMalak verb functions
- Marshallese vowels
- Ndebele colour terms
- Old Chinese Type A/B
- Old Irish
- Phonotactics of Urdu
- PIE grammar
- Proto-Algonquian Verbs
- Reduplication in Ju|’hoansi
- Seri stress
- Swahili noun classes
- The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong
- Vowel harmony in Jingulu
- Webonary
Worldbuilding
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Atomic Rockets
- Awesome Worldbuilding List of programs
- Star system generator
- Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
- Brandon Sanderson videos on worldbuilding
- C.M Koseman
- Furaha biology
- Guide to Orbits (CitruzSquared)
- NationStates Worldbuilding Thread
- Procedural tectonic planets
- Resources for World Builders
- Spherical Astronomy for Worldbuilders
- Tellurus
- Worldbuilding Notes (Google Doc)
- Worldbuilding Pasta
World creators
- Terrain Sculptor
- Azgaar – Fantasy Map Generator
- Azgaar – Armoria
- Gleba
- Inkarnate
- Wonderdraft
- Chronographer
- CivGen
- Fun with plate tectonics
- GProjector
- Map generation
- Orogen studio
- Plate Tectonics: Rules of Thumb CRScotese
- Pyramid Shader Introduction
- Songs of the eons
- Tectonics.js
- The Geochronicler
- 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
- World History Sim
- WordMuncher world building program
- Indo european explorer
- WorldForge 3d
- OnlyWorlds
- Fantasia archive
- Chronicler
- A book of creatures
- Apotheosis of the Invisible City