writeworld:

writeworld:

Anonymous asked: I was looking through the archives and I couldn’t really find anything pertaining to this but you wouldn’t happen to have any resources for language creation, would you?

I think I might have some cool stuff for you.

• The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder
• How to create a language by Pablo David Flores
• How to create a language in one day by Mikael Säker
• Fantasy Language Creation for Fiction Writers by M
• Creating fictional language(s) (this is a forum)
• Notes on Language Creation by Dave
• How to Create Your Own Language by The Council of Elrond
• How to Build a Language by Donald J. Harlow
• Constructed Langauge and Fictional Language from Wikipedia
• Creating and Using Fictional Languages in Your Writing from fmwriters
• Fictionary versus Con Lang from TV Tropes

You could also check out:

• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker  
• On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume by Noam Chomsky

Thank you for your question, and I hope that helps!

-C