Rosenfelder Mark. The Language Construction Kit

Yonagu Books, 2010. — 138 pages.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.This book is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages for a fantasy or an alien world, as a hobby, as an interlanguage. It presents linguistically sound methods for creating naturalistic languages, which can be reversed to create non-naturalistic languages. It suggests further reading for those who want to know more, and shortcuts for those who want to know less.A naming language
The overall process
Sounds
Word building
Grammar
Semantics
Pragmatics
Language families
Writing systems
Kebreni
Word lists
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