Construct Your Own Language: A Language Construction Kit

2025-02-06

This guide provides a comprehensive kit for creating artificial languages, perfect for fantasy worlds, alien civilizations, or simply as a hobby. Author Mark Rosenfelder details linguistically sound methods for building naturalistic languages, outlining steps such as deciding on sounds, lexicon, grammar, alphabet, and cursive writing. He uses his own Verdurian language as an example, emphasizing the importance of the construction order to avoid inconsistencies like those found in Hergé's Syldavian. Further resources and print versions are provided for advanced learning.