Language is messy. Different rules, scripts, and sounds make it difficult for an English speaker to learn Mandarin, and vice versa. There has to be a better way—and some conlang creators think there ...

It's well known that JRR Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings cycle to create people to speak the languages he had invented. But, in the television age, artificially created or invented languages—we ...

Hi, I'm Erik Singer. [Presenter] Erik is a dialect coach and guy who really loves linguistics. Today we're gonna talk about constructed languages. Conlangs are languages that have been made up by a ...

Once ridiculed for their nerdy pursuits, the inventors of ‘conlangs’ are coming out – and linguistic enthusiasts are joining them For most language-learning software companies, Spanish is bread and ...

Constructed languages, or ‘conlangs’ as they are known, have always fascinated diehard fans. Could their creators be on the frontier of how we define language? Star Wars fans listening carefully to ...

Some of my earliest phonetic memories come from the world of The Sims. The first time a member of the pixelated family living in my computer exclaimed, “Ohhh feebee lay!” while clutching their stomach ...