The Language Construction Kit
Create plausible and realistic languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies or video games, or international communication... or just learn about how languages work from an unusual, light-hearted perspective. The Language Construction Kit on zompist.com has helped a generation of...
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Create plausible and realistic languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies or video games, or international communication... or just learn about how languages work from an unusual, light-hearted perspective. The Language Construction Kit on zompist.com has helped a generation of conlangers to understand and create languages. It's expanded here with coverage of semantics and pragmatics, language families, writing systems, and sample wordlists, as well as an annotated sample grammar. Revised edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780984470006 (098447000X)
ASIN: 098447000X
Publish date: March 11th 2010
Publisher: Yonagu Books
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
I've enjoyed following his website for a couple or three years now - http://www.zompist.com/ - and I downloaded/printed the original (much shorter) version of this to aid me in my own conlang forays.___________________________________________________________Review will follow as soon as I polish my ...
This book has a very specialized appeal, to "conlangers" -- people who make up languages as a hobby. The secondary audience would be writers who want to make up a language for a science fiction or fantasy setting. Even if you don't want to create an entire language, like Tolkien's Elvish, this book ...
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