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Podcast and videos about constructed languages.
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I have received a copy of How to Create a Language by Jessie Peterson. Review coming soon!
October 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Reminder that I and a bunch of other creators will be live for @madelinejames.bsky.social ' Worldbuilding festival THIS WEEKEND! Hoping to see y'all there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueIf...
September 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Patrons have access to a new Conlangery Episode, where I talk to Human1011 about his dragon language! It'll be up for everyone on YouTube next week! #conlang #language #linguistics
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Patrons have a new video available, all about how I make my conlang dictionaries. Wordmages and above can watch right now. Full video on YouTube on Monday. #conlang #language #linguistics www.patreon.com/posts/whats-...
August 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I got to talk to @dedalvs.bsky.social and @quothalinguist.bsky.social recently about a lot of things, including a certain movie. You can find the full episode on Patreon today, or wait until Monday for the YouTube release. #conlang #language #linguistics #superman. www.patreon.com/posts/kopiko...
July 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Hey, @bsky.app, my handle is my web address. Why am I suddenly getting this “Invalid Handle” warning?
June 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Patrons at $5 and up have access to early episodes of the podcast. Today, we have my interview with musician ZeWei discuss how they incorporate conlanging into their music. #conlang #langauge #linguistics www.patreon.com/posts/zewei-...
January 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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We had one more preposition to cover, so I decided I'd go with just one more strawpoll for the preopsition meaning "away from". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/3RnYX3kkBye
January 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Yesterday, we had a tie between biə and tyː for the preposition meaning "in(side)", so I have randomly chosen biə. Tyː is still in the running for our next one, meaning "to, toward" or "into". #conlang #language #lingusitics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/eNg6vpBA8gA
January 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Yesterday faɪ won by a landslide to become "under, on the bottom of". Now, we have a new preposition to decide on: our form for "inside". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/3RnYX3eExye
January 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Yesterday, we decided that yː would be the base form of the preposition meaning "on top of", "on (touching)", or "at the top of". Now we are doing "under" or "at the bottom of". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/7MZ0kp3NBgo
January 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Yesterday, we decided that oi => øʏ would mean "below". Today, we will decide what form means "touching", "on top of", or "at the top of (inside)". #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg strawpoll.com/7MZ0kpX3Ggo
January 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,861,034!

I think that makes me the first 20%!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,861,034, Conlangery ‪@conlangery.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 6, 2023"
September 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Going to be streaming again tonight at 3:30 PM CT time. Planning to work on more postpositions, which means more fancy diagrams! #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/XaxwmlV...
An image of three diagrams for the Ndăkaga postpositions fa, kit, ba, and agu. Fa shows a cube with a sphere below and a cube with a sphere touching the bottom. Kit shows a cube with a sphere above and a cube with a sphere touching the top. Ba shows a sphere going toward a cube and agu shows a sphere going away from a cube.
January 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Here's the rest. (2/2)
a’a Ndăkaga [aʔa] n egg Putting together some simple words to catch up. a’a Ndăkaga [aʔa] n spruce tree I had an interesting thought for this word. I happened to have in my list two Proto-Draconic roots, əʔa and aʔa, both of which would resolve to Ndăkaga a’a. The first I used for the previous word, meaning “egg”, and I wanted its homophone to be something unlikely to be confused. So, I went to Wiktionary and clicked “Random word” several times until I landed on “spruce” and figured “Why not?” ñubeu Ndăkaga [ɳɯpeɯ] n humanoid This is taken from the prefix ñu(g)- (from ñugi “two”) plus beu “foot”. I initially shied away from what is essentially a calque of biped, but I realized that by using the word beu, I made it clear enough. Birds are bipeds, but they would not be ñubeu, because beu is only for the inflexible feet of land animals that can’t grasp (as I mentioned under egre “talon, hand”). They might jokingly confuse humanoids with kangaroos, though, which is kind of funny. This isn’t going to be the only word for humanoids. I already have a pejorative (and threatening) secondary sense of badaf “meat”, and I’ll probably end up with several words with varying degrees of politeness/rudeness, since dragons have to deal with humanoids (and maybe some more neutral terms that humanoid wizards themselves coined).
January 1, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Well, I did manage to finish Lexember once again. Here are my last few words. A few are not fleshed out, but do check out the last one. It's one I was saving. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg (1/2)
iju Ndăkaga [itʃɯ] n eye I decided to return to body parts. I looked at a few colexifications with eye, but I didn’t see anything that jumped out to me as particularly good, so have a simple word that just mean “eye” (for now). tagid Ndăkaga [tʰakit] n ear If you’ve been following along, you might recognize the –id suffix on this word. Some depictions of dragons have strange fin-like earlobes, but D&D art seems to shy away from that. As such, I expect that their ears are either small holes or an exposed tympanic membrane somewhere under their bony faceplates. Human words for ears are often related to the earlobe, and a few languages relate it to “leaf” due to that shape, but without visible earlobes, I have doubts that dragons would think in terms of shape at all, and might not really understand their ears as organs until they ascertain their function. Hence, tagid is derived from tak “to hear“. adĭ Ndăkaga [atɪ] n horn Putting together some simple words to catch up. iga Ndăkaga [ika] n tooth Putting together some simple words to catch up.
January 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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I'm a little behind on my Lexember. Here's a few words for the past few days. I'll be streaming this Friday at 3ː30pm CT for people interested in this language. youtube.com/live/1Sdf-UZ... #conlang #language #dnd #ttrpg
afagĭ Ndăkaga [aɸakɪ] n 1. softness 2. weakness 3. youth; Softness is very interesting. It seems very common to associate “soft” with “weak”, and that felt like a very Draconic thing to do. But at the same time, I didn’t merely want the same association every warrior race on TV spouts (“You humans are too softǃ”), so I added in a third meaning of “youth” (attested in CLICS) to complicate things a bit. iju Ndăkaga [itʃɯ] n eye; I decided to return to body parts. I looked at a few colexifications with eye, but I didn’t see anything that jumped out to me as particularly good, so have a simple word that just mean “eye” (for now). tagid Ndăkaga [tʰakit] n ear; If you’ve been following along, you might recognize the –id suffix on this word. Some depictions of dragons have strange fin-like earlobes, but D&D art seems to shy away from that. As such, I expect that their ears are either small holes or an exposed tympanic membrane somewhere under their bony faceplates. Human words for ears are often related to the earlobe, and a few languages relate it to “leaf” due to that shape, but without visible earlobes, I have doubts that dragons would think in terms of shape at all, and might not really understand their ears as organs until they ascertain their function. Hence, tagid is derived from tak “to hear“.
December 27, 2023 at 5:42 PM
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Just a basic word today, with a new derivational affix. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg
abegi Ndăkaga [apeki] n smoothness; Keeping on with my sensations. I considered expanding the meaning on this word, but sometimes you just need your words to be simple.This word represents another new derivational suffix. I created the adjective abe “smooth” and then the suffix –gi/-gĭ for the “-ness” nominalizer. I didn’t come up with an etymology for –gi/-gĭ because I didn’t feel that I needed to in this case. Its source is forgotten in the mists of time.
December 23, 2023 at 2:39 PM
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Another day, another word. Join me at 3:30 PM Central Time for more work on this language. Maybe I'll get those adjectives sorted out. #conlang #language #linguistics #lexember #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/FcBJXnz...
ufid Ndăkaga [ɯɸit] n 1. itch 2. unshed skin 3. an unpleasant sensation; In honor of the second Cursed Conlang Circus premiering today, I thought something about a feeling of discomfort was in order. I did make the root ufi “itchy” for this root, but because I don’t yet have inflections sorted for adjectives, I decided to make a noun of it using the –id suffix.
December 22, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Can dragons swim? I guess they should. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg
uja Ndăkaga [ɯtʃa] vi 1. swim 2. bathe; Picking another odd relationship. I’m not really sure about the hygeine habits of dragons, but they can range widely and find large bodies of water, so I expect they might take a dip once in a while.So whether they get clean by taking a dip in a pond (or a lake, or the ocean, cause dragons get big) or they just observe other animals in water and don’t see the difference, I think this one works well.
December 21, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Another locomotion word. It's quite fun thinking of these words from the perspective of a dragon. I'm hoping to further complicate things with the way humanoid spellcasters alter it. #conlang #lexember #dnd #ttrpg
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abu Ndăkaga [apɯ] vi 1. hop, skip 2. run; CLICS lists a handful of languages where JUMP and RUN are linked, so I thought perhaps “hop” and “run” can work together. Thinking from a dragon’s perspecive tracking prey from the air, how different is a kangaroo hopping away from a deer running? Running gait is characterized by a point where all of the animal’s feet are off the ground, so you are kind of hopping when you run anyway.
December 20, 2023 at 5:56 PM
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Figured a little semantic nuance was needed today.
Unrelatedly, I'm thinking of removing the third person subject prefix, as it isn't strictly necessary and has led to some long words an unintentional tongue-twister. Maybe something to discuss on stream.
ăpĕ Ndăkaga [əpʰɛ] vi 1. jump, leap 2. launch, take off by leaping from the ground; Continuing with locomotion. I actually already had a way of saying “take off” by using the perfective and the “up” directional with the verb chi’a “to fly” (e.g. găchĭchĭ’a “I take off”), however, when thinking about “jump” and “leap“, I felt a synonym would be useful. To keep it from being completely synonymous, uses of chĭ’a for “take off” are more general, and includes gentler launch techniques like dropping off a cliff or gliding off a mountainside, but ăpĕ is specifically for “launching” by leaping into the air from the ground.
December 19, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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I mentioned crawling and slithering yesterday, so I decided to continue that thought today. #conlang #language #linguistics #lexember #dnd #ttrpg
afi Ndăkaga [aɸi] vi 1. slither 2. crawl 3. scurry; This word covers slithering and crawling, but also scurrying like a rat, basically covering most locomotion of smaller creatures. I felt it good to group these together because a dragon is large enough that there wouldn’t make much difference, except maybe if they encounter giant serpents.Consider that, technically, the locomotion of an ant is actually pretty similar to that of a human or a horse – they have both walking and running gaits – but we humans call it crawling because they’re insects and insects crawl. To a large dragon, there’s not that much difference between a mouse and an insect. Heck, they might describe particularly small sheep as crawling!As a bonus, I usually don’t think that much about phonaesthetics, but I found this word does kind of imitate the sound of a snake slithering through grass.
December 18, 2023 at 8:02 PM
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Going to move on from flying for a bit and think about ground locomotion. #conlang #language #linguistics #lexember #dnd #ttrpg
bre Ndăkaga [pre] vi 1. to walk 2. (with up or down directional) to climb; Having made a couple words for flying, I thought I’d continue on the theme of locomotion. I had initially thought of bre being specific to “walk on all fours” and also have the sense of “crawl” in addition to “climb” (inspired by Chinese 爬 pá), but I thought that two- or four-legged locomotion wouldn’t make as much of a difference to dragons as the difference between walking and crawling or slithering, so I decided against that. I do like having “climb” in the semantics, though. It suggests that creatures capable of flight don’t really have a need to contemplate the extra effort involved in climbing versus walking.
December 17, 2023 at 1:38 PM
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Outside of #lexember I made a new word for "to fly". But if I can fly, why shouldn't I also soar? #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg
andĕ Ndăkaga [antɛ] vt 1. to soar, glide 2. to float, levitate 3. (on water) to sail; After my last stream creating the directional/associated motion markers and needing a word for “fly”, I was inspired to create another word for a kind of flying. All of these associations are attested in human languages, but I particularly focused on the idea that soaring takes little effort, as that seems the most important part for flying creatures. Hence “float” and “levitate” are covered here. Some languages also group “hover” with “soar”, but if dragons can hover, it would take a lot of effort to maintain. Some bats can hover, and from videos it takes quite a lot of effort to stay still in the air, with some impressive wing flexibility to bend backwards on the upstroke.
December 16, 2023 at 1:07 PM