Category Archives: conlang community building

Wikipedia, and many other people who write about conlangs like the tripartite taxonomy of auxlangs, engelangs and conlangs. Some people use conlang interchangably with artlang, some (like me) use it to mean non-natural languages in the broadest sense. Users of … Continue reading →

Chat solves three problems for a conlanger: corpus building, proving your language design in a conversational context and tutoring the community. Most any chat tool works for the latter two issues. For corpus building, you really need to need to … Continue reading →

This is the best statement I’ve read about online communities, from the Coding Horror blog: … It’s an ugly, thankless little thing, but it’s necessary. I scrutinize every comment, and I remove a tiny percentage of them: they might be … Continue reading →

Conlangs are a bit like really small natural languages. The language is optimized to a particular environment, knowing the language is most useful for communicating with a particular set of people. If there is a mismatch, the language might be … Continue reading →

Facebook is the new crack for sociable people and really can’t be entirely ignored if you are trying to build communities–a prerequisite for any modest success for a language of any sort. It is easier to make friends of people … Continue reading →

I was researching how many wikipedia articles exist for both a conlang creator and the conlang. (see end of article for list) It is uncommon for a conlang to become notable. It is uncommon for people to become notable. Lots … Continue reading →

I’m going to break tradition and say my conlang, when complete, will be no more awesome than any other language. It won’t solve the language problem (namely it’s hard to learn someone else’s language), it probably will be simple in … Continue reading →

I cant see how any of the following attitudes could help language revival of dead and moribund languages. I think all the following also applies to conlangs that want to have a speaking community. [Small, threatened languages that are still … Continue reading →

Is there a link? Yes. Is there a continuum between a conlang and an Endangered language? Yes. Yes. Who should learn these languages? The descendant or any random language hobbyist?Anyone, regardless to background. Language revival requires talented hobbyists to be … Continue reading →

I’m working up some drafts for language governance documents.   Constructed languages face some typical challenges, which probably could be helped by setting down some social conventions for people to follow.  Obviously, we’re in the world of recommendations and guidelines, … Continue reading →

Obviously we can machine generate stillborn languages as quick as we have time and money for.  The question at hand is, how many of these can be spoken?  Almost by definition, the auxlang and it’s fans can tolerate only a … Continue reading →