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.
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.
Christian Borillo (USA 2016) Creator of the Minhast Language, and the conland of Minhay
Brian Bourque (USA 2018) Native language: English
Fluent in Persian (Farsi); operationally proficient in Korean and French; basic understanding and usage of German
Creator of Lortho
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Rebecca Krause (USA 2017) Disabled queer conlanger and conworlder who explores social justice themes and alternative gender systems in her worlds. Fluent Esperanto speaker, non-linguist obsessed with conlangs, published poet under the pen name Catherine B. Krause.
Joanna Samantha Kuziak (Poland 2018)
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)
Gabriel Marriage (UK 2019)
Riley Martinez-Lynch (USA 2015) Secretary-Treasurer, Logical Language Group (lojban)
Krishna May (Germany 2018) Spiritual queer polyamorous psychotherapist exploring oligosynthetic languages and human nature. I especially like phonology and have a Youtube channel (Krishna the Conlanger) where I talk about phonology, conlangs and languages in general.
Oliver Mayeux (UK 2016) PhD Candidate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
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.
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.
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.
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)
David Plate (USA 2018)
Rasmus Praestholm (USA 2016) Terasology lead - open source video game project with voxel world and more!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
