LCS Members

Joel Anderson (USA 2015) Joel Anderson, despite rumors to the contrary, is not a Klingon. He is however: 1) A Software Engineer who has worked in software development and the telecommunications industry for over 20 years. He still remembers the "good old days" when computing online meant dialing with a rotary phone, using his VIC 20. 2) A science fiction enthusiast, Joel may occasionally need to be reminded that he is a human, from Earth. 3) A language hobbyist who enjoys building programs that use science fiction languages, especially those found in the worlds of Star Trek. 4) A card carrying member of the Klingon Language Institute. See his article in the institute's journal, HolQeD, "Building a Klingon Computer".

Kathleen Arnold (USA 2019)

Nicolas Athanasiades (United Kingdom 2016) Conlanger and composer

Carl Avlund (Denmark 2018) I am a student from the island of Sjælland [ˈɕɛlaˀn]. My main interest is historical linguistics, and in my conlanging I like to work on ancient Stone Age languages and the conworlds and concultures that surround them.

Mishell Baker (USA 2019) American fantasy novelist

J.S. Bangs (USA 2014) Creator of Yivrian and Praseo, and the Phonix sound change engine

Javier Barrio (Spain 2019) Interested in linguistics and conlanging since childhood. Fluent in English and Spanish, with varying degrees of knowledge about many others (from French, Russian, Chinese, Turkish and Esperanto to Basque, Georgian, Navajo, !Xóõ and Lojban). Voraciously read about all kinds of topics relating to linguistics (such as diachronic phonology, grammaticalization, pragmatics, and lexical semantics). Currently working on a set of constructed languages (project "motulang"). Computer scientist by trade, with additional formal training in the fields of architecture and art history. Other interests include traveling, foreign cultures, color theory, maths (geometry and numeral systems), astronomy, board games, and action-figure collecting.

Shelley Bibeau (USA 2019)

Billy J. B. (Sweden 2012) Founder and administrator of the MediaWiki-based conlang site Linguifex ( http://linguifex.com ) and one of the Facebook-based conlang groups ( http://facebook.com/groups/constructedlanguages/ ). I am þe creator of several Indo-European conlang sketches (Germanic, Italic, own) and a few odd fraglangs.

Pete Bleackley (UK 2015) Creator of Khangaþyagon and iljena. Local host of LCC6. Associate Editor of Speculative Grammarian.

Kaye Boesme (USA 2017)

Donald Boozer (USA 2009) The official Conlang Librarian, Don is the creator of Dritok.

Christian Borillo (USA 2016) Creator of the Minhast Language, and the conland of Minhay

Francesco Bravin (Italy 2013) creator of the Danan language, a fictional ancient indo-european language.

Jeffrey Brown (USA 2009) τεμεηια - The Temenia project is a model of the process by which an international auxiliary language is constructed, as well as an example language constructed by that process. Temenia had its first speakers conference in 2011. You can view the conference website here.

Padraic Brown (USA 2010)

Galen Buttitta (USA 2017)

Rob Cabe (USA 2017)

Bryan Casas (France 2019)

Sally Caves (USA 2008) Conlang: Teonaht. Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an. "The gods have retractable claws." I have worked on this language and its culture for about fifty years. The extensive webpages with drawings and samples of my script vanished when I abandoned GoDaddy, and will be restored on WordPress when I learn how to navigate it (help would be most welcome!). Teonaht is largely an a priori language with some lexical borrowings as its inhabitants mingle, clandestinely, with our own, but they remain largely isolated, and ever so slightly inhuman. I'm finishing a long novel devoted to them. Teonaht has some peculiar features, notably its OSV structure in formal writing and speaking (SOV in vernacular speech), and prefixing tense and aspect information on pronouns instead of the verbs. It makes a morphological distinction between volitional and non-volitional action and a large set of irregular nouns borrowed from a dead language, Nenddeyly. In the meantime I can direct you to the translation made by my ammanuensis, Issytra, of a Conlang Relay text she felt was utterly baffling: http://conlang.org/language-creation-conference/lcc5/3-teonaht/. My early machinima (or Real Time Animation--made under the sobriquet "Textcavation" and director "Hypatia Pickens") has me singing in Teonaht.

G. Hussain Chinoy (USA 2019)

George Corley (USA 2011)

Wyatt Denious (USA 2018) Speaks Western Abenaki, Japanese and Spanish

David G. Durand (USA 2007)

Martin Edwardes (UK 2016) Creator of Pravic for Night School on Anarres project. Also interested in cants and cryptic languages, esp. Polari. Teaches language creation module at King's College London, and looking to start after-school conlang club project at local schools.

Susie Edwardson (USA 2019) Haida (Indigenous) lady working on helping revitalize X̱aad Kíl. Currently working on my Masters in a First Nationʼs Language in Lingustics. New languages fan! Itʼs inspirational new languages can generate so much support and interest.

Elizabeth Jane (USA 2019)

Dirk Elzinga (USA 2019)

E M Epps (USA 2010) Author of The Interpreter's Tale, a fantasy novel about a military interpreter on a diplomatic mission.

Alex Fink (USA 2010)

Greg Foster (Australia 2019) As a student of ancient history, I have developed sets of languages derived from many cultures. My language projects seek to implement languages based on societies both primitive and advanced with advanced grammatical concepts.

John Gluckman (USA 2016)

Aidan Grey (USA 2009) Gay, married, bearded, right-handed conlanger/six-cats owner in Aurora, Co, conlanging since 1983. Main project is Táálen, but was responsible for the mostly defunct Ardalang project (one of Muke Tever's lands is the last existent lang, I believe) and an ongoing series of practice sentences maaaaany years ago.

Veronica Hamilton (USA 2010) Initial creator of the Brooding language, author of Unwritten: Adventures in the Ages of MYST and Beyond, and general creator of imaginative ephemera.

John Harness (USA 2017) Also a member of the Klingon Language Institute

Tony Harris (USA 2012) Tony's most important language is Alurhsa, with Tariatta as a secondary and a number of others as yet only minimally developed.

Jan Havliš (Czech Republic 2011) Jan's language creations are summarized here, under the green triangle window of the tower temple. Some pages of the individual languages might be slightly out-of-date, but still give relevant info.

Jim Henry (USA 2010) Jim Henry (USA 2010) gjâ-zym-byn, a personal language; Glossotechnia, the language invention card game

Ashley Herrera (USA 2018)

Hyolobrika (UK 2019)

Alex Igbineweka (USA 2017) Guosa is a Nigerian and West African common indigenous future lingua franca for unity, identity, political stability, tourism, arts, culture and science. There are about 400 different ethnic languages, dialects in Nigeria and about twice this number in other West African nations. presently, Guosa consists of more than 120 of these diverse tongues and it all started with two language interlarding in the beginning about 1964. The language is evolution of scientifically detailed units of traditional African words from different languages and cultures, so that in the future, the West African nations or ECOWAS should take their positive stand in the communities of world lingua franca nations such as the East Africa, North Africa, France, etc.

Jaana iloivar (USA 2016) Conlang is just one of the arts I have been wildly cycling through from my youth to present.

Kamiki Itachi (Japan 2019) Assistant to Karen Traviss for creating Mando’a.

Kelvin Jackson (Finland 2011)

Jerome G (France 2016)

David Johnson (UK 2010) David is the creator of the Lemohai, Õtari and Classical Leheitak languages.

BenJamin P. Johnson (Canada 2014) Germanicist, former IT Professional, beer-brewer, mead-maker, cheese-maker, fountain pen enthusiast. Major personal conlangs include Northeadish (Druðþþᵫ̄ðeſc / Druþýðesk - Germanic a posteriori), Maltcégj (a priori), Valthungian (Grējutungiška Rasta or Sō Grējuga Tunga - East Germanic a posteriori with Latin influence), Ox-Yew (Adzaay) (a priori), and Dlatci (a priori). Current developer and curator of the Brooding language (a priori), originally created by Veronica Hamilton and Ryan Long for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theatre Company, and creator of the Grayis language (a priori) for Infinite Mind Pictures, Inc.

Martin Keegan (UK 2019)

Kenan Kigunda (Canada 2019) i write things that computers can understand and sometimes that humans can, too. mixin { linguistics, conlanging, activism, occasional_nonsense } (he/him)

Joanna Samantha Kuziak (Poland 2018)

Tobias Lindorfer (Austria 2019)

Ryder Lykara (UK 2019)

Anne Lyle (UK 2017) Writer, web developer and all-round geek. Author of Elizabethan fantasy novels "The Alchemist of Souls", "The Merchant of Dreams" and "The Prince of Lies", which feature two non-human conlangs.

michael mabbot (UK 2017)

Michael Maitland (UK 2019)

Gabriel Marriage (UK 2019)

Justin Marrier (USA 2019)

Riley Martinez-Lynch (USA 2015) Secretary-Treasurer, Logical Language Group (lojban)

Oliver Mayeux (UK 2016) PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Bennett Meale (USA 2019)

mek (USA 2016)

Jacob Menschel (Germany 2019) Creator of the Hatk'amman language family which currently only consists of one conlang, Old Ataman. Lives in south-western Germany.

James Miller (Australia 2010)

Sentaro Mizuta 水田 扇太郎 (Japan 2009) NOXILO (pronounced noshilo) is multimode language (SVO / SOV reversible and SVO / SOV / VSO triversible by the end of this year), and all Int'l Standard Words (ISW) has root on the wordhead. You can replace ISW with English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, or any other natural language.

William W Moore (USA 2017) I set out in 1957 to invent a universal language from scratch. I was seeking a logical or rational language, like math, that was not just a collection of arbitrary sounds, which would mean the same in every culture regardless of what other languages they already speak. In the process of "creating" language I discovered that the languages we already have are more "created" languages – products of forethought and design – and less products of "evolution" than they're commonly presumed to be. I'm still working at it.

Spencer Morrell (USA 2018)

Eric Morris (USA 2016)

Julie Munsell (USA 2019) Creator of several conlang sketches and full conlangs for others in both a priori and a posteriori styles. In school, took many years of Honors English plus two years of Russian, and I have independently studied Esperanto and Latin American Spanish. I also create conscripts.

Robert Marshall Murphy 武明帥 (USA 2013) Large project of Austronesian Hebrew at danayo.conlang.org. Other projects at linguifex.com/wiki/User:Aquatiki.

Philip Newton (Germany 2011)

Patrick Niedzielski (USA 2014)

Matthew Niemi (USA 2015) PhD student in Islamic Studies at Indiana University

Johanna Norry (USA 2015)

Spencer O'Dowd (USA 2016) A conlanger with an unhealthy fixation on the way languages change over time, I specialise in the creation of language offshoots and dialects, whether they be real world languages or conlangs.

Dorris Opara (Nigeria 2017) I love the Guosa language, a united common indigenous lingua franca for Nigeria and West Africa, a similar role of the Swahili language for the East Africa. Guosa will facilitate tourism, business, commerce and trades among all other things.
National President Coalition of Young Female Candidates of Nigeria (CYFC); CEO Standout Nigeria Initiative (NGO); Member Linguistics Institute of Nigeria

Dan Parson (USA 2017) Founder of Sidosi, advancing and promoting Solresol (the universal musical language) since 2011. Also, web developer, computer technician, musician, and barefooter.

Brianna Peacey (Canada 2018)

Alexandra Pigeon (USA 2019) Hello, I am a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Linguistics major planning on going to grad school to do research in linguistics. Creator of languages Kinobasa and Ptse. If you would like to contact me to chat about linguistics, conlanging, or anything, please email me.

David Plate (USA 2018)

Rasmus Praestholm (USA 2016) Terasology lead - open source video game project with voxel world and more!

John Quijada (USA 2011)

Margaret Ransdell-Green (USA 2017) I am a graduate student in linguistics (documentary linguistics) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (Honolulu, HI) and I've been conlanging since 1998.

Grayson Richardson (USA 2013)

Rik Roots (UK 2009)

Sai (USA 2007) On the Design of an Ideal Language and other essays

Jessie Sams (USA 2013)

Scott Scharlach (USA 2017) Student at Pomona College in California. Creator of the Satsi language and the language sketches Xendareth, Qoazhau, and Nuzabiga.

Madison Scott-Clary (USA 2019) Madison is a writer, editor, and software engineer living in the PNW.

Sea (USA 2017)

Kenneth Sears (USA 2019)

Ángel Serrano Sánchez de León (Spain 2014) Aingeljã - A Romance-based conlang between Spanish and Catalan

Beverly Skinner (Canada 2017) I enjoy conlanging and world building for my aspiring fiction novel. My conlangs include Sarudani, Dankonish, and Eldtyric, in which I particularly enjoy designing and using new writing systems.

Yoshi Smart (UK 2019)

Tim Smith (USA 2013)

Sylvia Sotomayor (USA 2009) Creator of Kēlen: a verbless language.

Jean-Luc Soulié (France 2019) Bonjour, j'aime la construction linguistique depuis que j'ai 17 ans mais suite à une réorientation ce n'est que cette annee que je m'occupe de "finaliser" les bases de ma langue construite. Et je n'écris pas anglais étant plus familier de l'Espagnol.

Jan van Steenbergen (Netherlands 2015) Creator of Wenedyk and Vozgian, co-creator of Interslavic. Works as a Polish-Dutch translator and interpreter. Main interests: slavistics, constructed languages.

Tim Stoffel (USA 2011) My languages of most interest are: Na'vi, Dothraki, Klingon and Lojban.

Frank Tax (USA 2016)

Lorinda J. Taylor (USA 2011) My languages: Shshi, !Ka<tá, and other termite and bird languages. Conlang website: http://remembrancer.conlang.org. Related information at http://termitespeaker.blogspot.com and http://termitewriter.blogspot.com

Gary Taylor-Raebel (UK 2019)

Teddy (Indonesia 2019)

Christian Thalmann (Switzerland 2012)

Bruce Tindall (USA 2014)

Gordon Tisher (Canada 2017)

G. van der Vegt (Netherlands 2010)

Antun Vlašić (Croatia 2018) Xarevas Azyk - Charewas Language|Am author of Xarevas, semi-Slavic arfificial language made from elements of Indo-Aryan/Indo-Eurpean languages, with many constructed elements based after my own ideas not into any existing natural human language.

Derek Weagle (USA 2019)

Michael Weber (Austria 2012) Creator of Lemizh.

Carla Weigel (Canada 2018) My name is Carla Weigel. I have a degree in Honours Linguistics and have been working as a Speech Pathologist Assistant since 2012. I have a great ear for accents and pronunciation and I really enjoy teaching. I am very creative and have done lots of creative activities in my past jobs and experiences. I know several languages from different subfamilies (or at least the basics!) and am able to identify and re-create the tongue positions of sounds that make a language unique.

Josiah Welch (USA 2019) Senior Officer of the Offical of the Federal Republic of New Potato Land.

Sophia Willowood (USA 2017) Academically trained as a philosopher. Sadly, an accountant for money. Trekkie for life! Interested in philosophical languages as well as creating languages for the micronation movement. My own language, Sturanitian, was created for an in-progress micronation project for example.

Josef Wolanczyk (Canada 2019)

Irene Yi (USA 2019) Irene is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Linguistics.