Reddit reviews The Language Construction Kit

Here's a couple books to get you started:
The Language Construction Kit, by Mark Rosenfelder
The Art of Language Invention, by David J. Peterson (aka the guy who made Dothraki)
He's made some vids that elaborate on the stuff he covers.

Start off reading about linguistics and some things which interest you in language.

Learn the international phonetic alphabet ^optional ^but ^it ^makes ^things ^much ^easier

Super useful videos for learning it

In that playlist there are also videos on how to actually start your language, DON'T DO THEM YET.

First you need to decide what your language will be for

Now use either the artifexian video in the earlier playlist or this video which is a bit more in depth to start making a phonetic inventory for your language.

The next things you need develop are:

• Phonotactic rules
  
• A writing system
  
• A grammar system
  
• A vocabulary
  
  You can find resources for those yourself
  
  I would highly recommend getting a book like the art of language invention or the language construction kit. I can't speak for the latter but the former was an excellent guide for me through parts of linguistics which I was totally unaware of and how to use them in a language ^the ^author's ^youtube ^channel ^is ^not ^a ^substitute ^for ^the ^book ^more ^an ^expansion
  
  I hope that helps

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• “The Language Construction Kit,” by Mark Rosenfelder.

The Planet Construction Kit is a great resource for worldbuilding, covering almost all aspects of society and general setting from cosmology to biology, history, culture, religion, technology, map making...

http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/0984470034/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286906911&sr=1-2

Its companion book, the Language Construction Kit, is an invaluable resource for creating conlangs if that was of any interest to you as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/098447000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268637297&sr=1-1

A better question might be how much more expensive it is to learn how to conlanger than pay someone to conlang for you? Good conlanging books never exceed $20 dollars, but to pay an experienced conlanger who knows what they're doing and will deliver something of quality to you will cost no less than $300, per the LCS Job Board pricing guidelines. In a sense, it's like an art commission; something like a sketch will be half as much, but the deliverables will be half as exhaustively written. You get what you pay for, and a full masterpiece might be out of budget for a writer or worldbuilder doing what they love as a hobby rather than as a means of income.

To Construct a Language: http://www.lulu.com/shop/dan-gaynes/to-construct-a-language/paperback/product-23167868.html

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Language-Invention-Horse-Lords-World-Building/dp/0143126466

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/098447000X

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Language-Construction-Mark-Rosenfelder-ebook/dp/B008XTOV8C

https://www.amazon.com/Conlangers-Lexipedia-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/1493733001

There are also lots of conlang books at Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=conlang&type=

I'm building conlangs for my world, but I lean heavily on Mark Rosenfelder' The Language Construction Kit and the program Vulgar which is currently on sale.

I was a bit into conlangs a few years ago. I made the Vasudan language and writing system for the game Descent: FreeSpace (a space sim for PC from 1998). I have my notes tucked away in a box somewhere.

I've also played with conlangs when writing pieces for choir.

I picked up The Language Construction Kit recently, as I decided I wanted to get back into the game of language making.

I've not thought of trying to make an actual equine language, though. That might be interesting... thinking about how that vocal structure might evolve to produce language and what that language might be.

You might want to check some things

For the most realistic results, I would reccomend purchasing these two books:

The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder and The Art of Language Invention by David J Peterson

Go and buy these three books: The Language Construction Kit, Advanced Language Construction (don't worry, it's not that advanced), and The Conlanger's Lexipedia. And if your conlangs are designed for made-up worlds, then get [The Planet Construction Kit] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Planet-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/0984470034/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=W79ND56BKPK8EKXT2VQZ) too. If you want to make cultures that are not European then I'd also suggest The China Construction Kit!

Of all of these I'd suggest that you definitely buy The Language Construction Kit and see how you get on. I'd also suggest buying some grammar books of languages you're interested in, and even go so far as to learn a second language if you don't speak one. Having knowledge of at least one other language will help you a great deal.

/r/conlangs !!!

Here's a good podcast.

Book from the guy that created Dothraki (he's also on the podcast every now and then) about constructing languages

The language construction kit. Gives you a general overview of how languages do things and how you construct languages

Second part of the LCK. Highly optional

After you're done with either the podcast or the fist LCK, you might as well get into the grammar of other languages instead of using language construction things.

Don't do auxlangs, though.

Edit: There's also a planet construction kit in case you want to get straight into world building as well

I have some but depends on what you want

About planets:
http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/0984470034/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286906911&sr=1-2

About languages:
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Construction-Kit-Mark-Rosenfelder/dp/098447000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268637297&sr=1-1

i dont know about it too much but heard its good:
http://www.amazon.com/Maps-Imagination-The-Writer-Cartographer/dp/1595340416

This is THE deal:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Science-Fiction-Fantasy/dp/158297103X

Another helpfull thingy:

http://www.amazon.com/Strata-Terry-Pratchett-ebook/dp/B003NX6Y6U/

What u/everthing-narrative said. I'm a REALLY inexperienced conlang maker, but I think even a super crude language like Watership Down's lapine immensely improves a story.

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Some resources:

Artifexian youtube channel

Langauge Construction Kit

r/conlangs

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There are a bunch of conlang subs, actually. I'm too shy about my efforts to visit any of them yet, but... they're there! used the other two links extensively.

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I love languages! Although, I only know two right now (my native English and Esperanto).

1. I am trying to learn German while also improving my Esperanto. In the future, I would like to try to learn French and Japanese. I also want to construct my own language.
   
   
2. I have German Demystified. I am using it along with with Duolingo, Memrise, and Deutsch to help me learn German. If I do win this contest, this book would mean more to me than a book on German. I already have everything I need (textbook-wise) on German right now.
   
3. I live in Germany and I used to hear this song on the radio every morning before work. I really like it, and am a bit disappointed it doesn't come on anymore.
   
4. This one is tough. I'm still not very good at German, so I haven't really read any comics in it before today. I found a website with German comics that looks like it would be a nice daily to read. I could understand some of it, but not enough to understand the joke. :/ Someday, I'll understand...
   
   So what led you to want to learn Russian? It seems like an interesting language, but I've never tried to learn it.