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Langmaker.com
Langmaker is a website run by Jeffrey Henning that acts as a database of conlangs, neography, neographies, and other resources related to conlanging and worldbuilding, conworlding. paid versionanPDF version Prominent articles and the conlang directory were collected published by Yannia Press as ''Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs'', with an introduction by David J. Peterson. As of June 4, 2009, the site was offline. An unknown source took control of the website, hosting malware. After the takeover of the website, the owner regained control in 2022 making the site available through a Tor (network), Tor network endpoint until 2023. As of 2025 a copy of the site is hosted as a GitHub#GitHub Pages, GitHub Pages site. History Langmaker began as ''Model Languages'', a newsletter published by Henning between 1995 and 1996, in which he attempted to better publicize the hobby of conlanging and to explore various issues and questions related to conlanging. Shortly, Henning moved to a websit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conlang
A constructed language (shortened to conlang) is a language whose phonology, grammar, orthography, and vocabulary, instead of having developed natural language, naturally, are consciously devised for some purpose, which may include being devised for a fiction, work of fiction. A constructed language may also be referred to as an artificial, planned or invented language, or (in some cases) a fictional language. ''Planned languages'' (or engineered languages / engelangs) are languages that have been purposefully designed; they are the result of deliberate, controlling intervention and are thus of a form of ''language planning''. There are many possible reasons to create a constructed language, such as to ease human communication (see international auxiliary language and code); to give fiction or an associated constructed setting an added layer of realism; for experimentation in the fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and machine learning; for artistic language, artistic crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
