It can be hard to know where to begin when you set out to create a language for your story. In this series Adam will break down some tips for creating naming languages, advanced conlangs, and more. First up: naming languages.

Naming languages are commonly found in books where the author presents a sliver of a languagea few terms or phrases to help sell the worldbuilding or as part of the plot. Creating one of your own is easier than you might think!

Script and VO by Adam Bassett
Animation by Cole Field

Special thanks to Slorany for helping draft the script and providing some of their resources for conlanging (see them below!)

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–References–
An interactive IPA chart: https://www.ipachart.com/

Conlangs: How to Construct a Language MIT lecture notes: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguisti...

David Peterson's Conlang Lessons on YouTube:    • The Art of Language Invention, Episod...  

William S. Annis' Conlanger's Thesaurus: https://fiatlingua.org/wpcontent/upl...

–Also Check Out—
Other videos we’ve made about conlanging:    • How to Make a Language (Conlang)  

Artifexian's YouTube Channel:    / artifexian  

Biblaridion's YouTube Channel:    / @biblaridion  

Conlangs University (CommunityMade Resource): https://sites.google.com/view/conlang...

Names Aren't Neutral: David J. Peterson on Creating a Fantasy Language (PDF): https://fiatlingua.org/2019/03/

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