Inventing Languages: A Conversation in Language Construction

0:09 - 01 Grant Goodall
9:04 - 02 Paul Frommer (Na'vi)
20:33 - 03 David Peterson (Dothraki)
34:26 - 04 Q&A

Constructed languages, or conlangs, are well-known in science fiction and fantasy literature as ways of creating an immersive world-building experience. Join us in learning how linguists design the sound systems and grammars to behind some of our favorite conlangs.  With Grant Goodall (Professor and Language Program Director, UC San Diego Linguistics), David J. Peterson (Creator of Dothraki, Game of Thrones), and Paul Frommer (Creator of Na’vi, Avatar). Moderated by Tamara Rhodes (Linguistics Subject Librarian, UC San Diego Library). Recorded on 02/01/2019. Series: "The Library Channel" [3/2019] [Show ID: 34407]

[teacul]

Lmao at David Peterson's Q&A about making his language too hard to understand for other people so that they couldn't fire him

[Pining_for_the_fjords]

Funny at the end about fnu. Actually Norwegian has the word 'fnise', which means 'giggle'. As far as I know, it's the only word in the language beginning with fn. I wonder how such an unusual word-initial consonant cluster in languages in general comes to exist in just a single word in a language.

I'm also learning Polish, and they have the word krnąbrny. As far as I know, it's the only word in Polish that has r between another consonant and n, and it happens twice in the same word.

Unusual consonant clusters fascinate me for some reason.

[F.O.T-]

Tagarian is Translating in Tagalog in the Philippines And it's hard to learn if you don't know Tagalog.

[F.O.T-]

I also made a language and what I made is called "Tagarian" or Sseowmuwlunwku 😊❤❤ inspired by Hangul Alphabet❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

[science]

Strange how all ( German English, Italian etc ) changed 500 years ago

[SickDelusion]

Lì'fya leNa'vi sweya pum aswey leiu!

[ericnorman]

Are not pidgin languages also constructed languages?