Create a Language


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Want to create a language? It can take a lot of work to make it presentable, but the results can be amazing. To make your own, decide what sounds you want, create words, and hold it all together with a grammar. (Not necessarily in that order.) Use the input text below to start the creation of your language. break=no preload=Template:NewLang buttonlabel=Start creating your own language now! See also: New conlangs After you have created an extended dictionary of your language, you can start the building of a constructed culture. Your constructed culture can include its own myths and legends, poems, religions, tales, etc... they all written in your new language. You have to build a very good dictionary if you want to start a good conculture!
 * 1) Decide the phonology (sounds in the language)
 * 2) What sounds are meaning changing? English: B/P is (bat and pat) and in korean p and ph is (put/phut) while b and p is the same
 * 3) What sounds correspond to the same meaning? Many see the and de as the same and free and three when it comes to pronounciation
 * 4) Decide on phonotactics; which consonants go togather and which don't? In English you can say "Spanish," but in Spanish the letter S cannot begin a word when followed by a consonant so it becomes "Espanish." Can you have consonants at the end of syllables? Not in Hawai'ian.
 * 5) Create words and/or roots
 * 6) If you're also creating a conculture, think of what's important to them. There will probably be many words about it.
 * 7) How are roots derived? Semitic languages get the word for 'read' from 'blood.'
 * 8) Construct a grammar, how is it all put together in a flow? (May be done at the end)
 * 9) Is it agglutinating, isolating, fusional or polysynthetic
 * 10) If not isolating, what is its morphosyntactic alignment?
 * 11) Is it heavily inflected?
 * 12) Are verbs conjugated?
 * 13) Do the nouns decline?
 * 14) Are there different voices? moods? aspects? tenses (can be more than past, present, future)?
 * 15) Does it have nouns? adjectives? verbs? adverbs? particles? articles?
 * 16) How are things expressed? (English: "I am eating" and "I eat" is the same in spanish and swedish)

See also: Constructed Mythology Some constructed languages are based on Conworld-wiki worlds. You can find them on List of Conworld-based Conlangs

Useful links:
 * http://www.excelville.com/file/285/Conlang+Lexicon+Generator
 * Conlang terminology
 * List of conlangs
 * List of derivation methods
 * List of self-segregating morphology methods
 * Language tools