How to create a language

It might be likely that your upcoming fiction novel needs a made-up language. This infographic teaches you how to create conlangs for all your literary needs.

Creating a language from scratch can seem scary, but it doesn't have to be! Let's check out these 5 tips, designed for non-conlangers.

How do you create names for your fictional people and places? Do you make a unique creation, base it loosely on earth, or try to find some middle ground between the two? How do you mold random names and phrases into some consistent? This is a fakers guide to create fictional languages.

According to serious linguistic research and personal notices of many people, conversational speech consists of 100 words that cover 50% of what we talk

From the Klingon language in the Star Trek universe to the Na'vi language from James Cameron's Avatar, fictional languages can go a long way towards making a work of fiction feel real. Making a can be an intense undertaking because the...

As if women in the corporate world needed something else to worry about, it is now apparently inappropriate for co-workers to know that you're on your period, especially if they're male.

This post was meant to go up last week, but burnout got to me and almost nothing went up. So, first of all, I apologize for the missed week. Here’s the post you were meant to get last week, all about how to build a language (conlang = “constructed language”) that will add realism to…

Learning a new language is tougher and less romantic than we’d like. But it doesn’t have to be.