CONLANGING RESOURCES

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General Resources

1. The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder. Collection of general information and tools to get started with creating constructed languages. A must for any aspiring conlanger!
   1.1. LCK Resources. Resources recommended by Mark Rosenfelder.
2. Glossary of Linguistic Terms by the SIL. If you ever come across a linguistic term that you haven't heard of, you can probably find what it means in here!
3. World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) A large overview of many features of the world's languages.
4. The International Phonetic Alphabet. You don't need to know the IPA to make your own conlang, but it's a great way to refer to the sounds that you might include in your conlang.
5. Conlanging course from the MIT. A free, university level course on creating constructed languages.
6. Wikipedia Linguistics Portal. A nice gateway to lots of linguistics content on Wikipedia.
7. ConWorkShop. A conlanging community and tools website.

Phonology

1. The International Phonetic Alphabet chart.
2. The Index Diachronica. It lists sound changes by family and sound, so if you're evolving your conlang from another, it gives you a good idea on what would feel natural
3. Mark Rosenfelder's Sound Change Applier. An easy to use tool to apply sound changes to lots of words at once.

Grammar

1. List of grammatical cases. (Wikipedia)
2. Tense, aspect and mood. (Wikipedia)

Lexicon/Vocabulary

1. Lexiconga. An easy way to store your own languages' lexicons.
2. 625 Useful Words. A list of 625 useful words to add to your conlang's lexicon.
3. A Conlanger's Thesaurus. A big lexicon of all the words that you could possibly want to have in your conlang, ordered by subjects and connections between words.
4. Swadesh list. A list of words used to compare langauges. (Wikipedia)
   3.1. Appendix. List of swadesh lists for many different languages. (and even some conlangs!)
5. Kinship Terminology. One of the easiest ways to introduce non-English flavour to your conlang.

Conlanging on Youtube

• Artifexian
• Babelingua
• Biblaridion
• Connor Quimby
• David Peterson
• jan Misali
• Koallary
• Lichen the Fictioneer
• Nakari Speardane

Other Communities

1. Conworkshop Events Another nice conlanging community.
2. !linguistics (Kbin link). A community about general linguistics.
3. !linguistics_humor (Kbin link). A community to post memes and funnies about linguistics.
4. !worldbuilding (Kbin link). A community to discuss all the other interesting facets of worldbuilding.
5. !languagelearning (Kbin link). A community to discuss practical language learning.