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 sp cant be first so it becomes "espanish." Can you have vowels 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 togather 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) Does 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:
 * Conlang terminology
 * List of conlangs
 * List of derivation methods
 * List of self-segregating morphology methods
 * Language tools