Category Archives: Conlangs

Orkestro_definition from Esperanto Wikipedia

Esperanto Words with Ambiguous Segmentation

Some Esperanto words can be parsed into roots and affixes in multiple ways.

definition of Esperanto highlighted in a paper Esperanto dictionary

Esperanto Homographs

A look at seven word forms in Esperanto that are homographs.

Lapine: The Rabbit Language from Watership Down

Richard Adams’ Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created.

Furbish

This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys.

Intermythic English

Inspired by Tamarian, here’s a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of 150 words.

Pidanjinu

In 2002, I started a sketch of a fictional Astronesian pidgin, reflecting a then emerging obsession of mine: conlangs that used all 26 Latin letters. I wouldn’t return to Pidanjinu until 2021-2022, working on it 15+ minutes a day, at which point it became the conlang that I am the most proud of: Muna Lingi. Here are its humble beginnings.

Kordron: A Naming Language for Orcs

If you want to name some orcs, we have just the language for you.

a large wooden sculpture of a trollish face, from a forest in Lillerød, Denmark

Durdekors: RPG Mini-lang

Durdekors was a conlang I started for a role-playing board game I mocked up in the 1990s or early 2000s.

a garden gnome nestled in a-moss-covered-log-in-the-middle-of-a-forest

Karklak: The Gnome Tongue

I invented my first language in 1982, and I called it Karklak, the Gnome Tongue. It was the language of the gnomes of the land of Wundrian.

John Carter talks to the old man at the atmosphere factory on Mars

Faux Conlangs for Roleplaying

For my TTRPG Planet of the Week, I’ve created adventures on 11 different planets so far. Which has required me to create at least one miniature constructed language (conlang) for each planet. For unlike Star Trek, with its magical, invisible, instantaneous translator, in Planet of the Week the Universal Translator (UT) is a device that has to be trained over time. So characters always hear a bit of the new language before translation kicks in.

The Dispossessed original book cover, 1974

Pravic: The Anarchic Conlang

Pravic is a constructed language, even within its setting, where it was created as part of the settlement of the moon Anarres by refugees from Urras. Here are links to the pages that I found most useful to learn more about Pravic.

Lexember 2025—Prompts for Conlang Lexicons

Lexember is a social-media challenge to add at least one word to your constructed language (conlang) each day of December. This year I’ve created three sets of prompts, depending on how ambitious you are.

Oðblgshezi Around the Web

To my surprise, Oðblgshezi has taken a life of its own. My absolute favorite is that Goodfire Brewing not only named a Kölsch after it, they put a calculator on the can!