Conlanging
** Editor's Note: This is the first article in a series of articles on conlanging. Our guest-writer works extensively with linguistics, in addition to years of conlanging as a hobby. Please enjoy and as always, comments are always welcome and encouraged! ** How to Make a Language Part 1 When I was growing up, my main hobby was world building. There are many different things involved in world building, but my favorite part was always creating languages. My first attempts at creating languages were languages for aliens from science-fiction stories I would make up. Learning about creating languages helped inspire an interest in language for that would eventually become of my profession. You don’t need to have a lot of linguistics knowledge to make your languages though. In this series of articles, I will introduce you to making your own languages. I will introduce some linguistics concepts as we go, but I will try not to go too far into the weeds… No promises though! After this