Aleksandre Abramishvili (Georgia 2022) A creator and a sole speaker of the Celabric language; an unemployed data scientist; an amateur musician; a linguist at heart; an owner of the noblest, most glamorous, and the most loving cat; and a boyfriend of the smartest, coolest, sexiest, funniest, and the most beautiful girl in the multiverse.
Mike Armbrust (USA 2021) Conlanger since 2005. Developing Hapax, a video game about a hard sci-fi alien language. Players effectively work as field researchers and learn the language without guiderails. The language is significantly alien with a completely original grammar, writing system, and number system.
Nicolas Athanasiades (UK 2016) Conlanger and composer
Carl Avlund (Denmark 2018) Former student of Latin and Ancient Greek, graduated from Gefion Gymnasium in 2021. Creator of the Kotekko-Pakan languages. Interested in phonological/grammatical aesthetics and naturalism.
Doug Ball (USA 2009) Inventor of Skerre. Professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.
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.
Billy Beltran (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.
Kalash Bhaiya (India 2022) I am working on a project where I have to create a language for people with dyslexia.
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
Andrea Bourne (USA 2020)
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, Sim-Arabic, Ma‘alahi, Beltös... and more to come
Padraic Brown (USA 2010)
Collin Brown (USA 2021) Writer, Language Creator, and Programmer
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.
Kenneth Dyer (USA 2021) Fiction and technical writer and programmer, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. Holds a B.A. in writing and in Classical philology from Loyola University, New Orleans, and a Certificate in Germanic philology from Signum University.
Particularly interested in developing naturalistic conlangs to use in fantasy fiction.
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.
Jonathan El-Amin (USA 2022)
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)
Calvin George (USA 2020) C L George is the creator of the Watu language and its associated fantasy world. He aspires to be a fantasy writer of several novels and is taking the Tolkien pathway to that goal. He is also a professor of English and linguistics at a university in Texas and a drummer.
Michael Goessler (UK 2020) Undergrad linguistics student at the University of Edinburgh, conlanger, writer, and composer. Working on my conworld since 2013, along with its (currently around 60) languages and associated short stories and (well, potentially) a novel series, the Last Age Chronicle. Website (like my world) perpetually under construction, but one may dare a look!
Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets (Netherlands 2011) Christophe is the creator of Moten and Narbonese. Also, his is the crazy mind that invented Maggel.
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.
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.
David Johnson (UK 2010) David is a librarian specialising in European language materials. He also writes about Letoa, which he describes as a "constructed conlang". In-world, Letoa was created by a committee of linguists to serve as the auxiliary language of the planet Toa.
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 So Grējuga Tunga - East Germanic a posteriori with Latin influence), Ox-Yew (Adzaay) (a priori), and Gothic Romance (East Germanic and Romance a posteriori). Current developer and curator of the Brooding language (a priori, created by Veronica Hamilton and Ryan Long) for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theatre Company, and the Nymeran Language (a priori, created by Niamh Doyle) for the comic series Glow. Creator of the Grayis language (a priori) for Infinite Mind Pictures, Inc, the Braereth langauges (Romance a posteriori) for CJ Kavanaugh’s Kindle Vella series The Chronicles of Braereth, and others.
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)
Jeff Lilly (USA 2021) Jeff Lilly is a Druid, linguist, and author. He dabbles in all kinds of fiction, from the speculative to the fantastic, but is particularly interested in fiction with deep systems-level world building and constructed languages. He lives with his wife Alison and their cat Cu in Seattle, WA.
Alison Long (UK 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.
Piermaria Maraziti (Italy 2012) Has been conlanging since he can remember.
Riley Martinez-Lynch (USA 2015) Secretary-Treasurer, Logical Language Group (lojban)
Lorenzo Masci (Italy 2018) I've been passionate about linguistics since i can remember, and i started trying to create languages since 2014ish. I made a few highly developed conlangs and thousands of sketches.
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)
James Arthur Miller (USA 2021)
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.
Johnathan Palmer (USA 2021) Polar Bear is the inventor of TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k. It means "everything on earth lives and breathes." The TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language is actually two different languages. One is a choreographed dance that I have made into a script to read and follow. The second is the spoken language that is called TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k. The dance is called skeleton moves (pÉtÍœ jÉ'tÍœ jÉ'chÍœ jÉ) and can also be practiced as a martial art. The TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language has an IPA and a script I have created for it. It has no romanization because the language contains more sounds than what can be written out in roman letters. --- I want to develop the TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language even more than I have already. My goal is to compile a TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language dictionary that’s at least 10,000-word entries or more and containing 1,800 idioms. My plan is to accomplish this goal over the course of five years. During this five-year term I plan on mastering all 12 levels of pÉtÍœ jÉ'tÍœ jÉ'chÍœ jÉ as well. I also have one other language that is in the making but I will need to wait until the TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language project is finished and I have mastered skeleton moves. My main language interest with the TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language is the overall phonology of the language since I want it to sound fluid and consistent like a natural language would. My second language interest in the TÉÌlÊ’rə̬k language is the meaning and impact it can have when spoken by oneself and another person. I believe sounds can have a deep impact on the human brain in a positive way that is why I am so focused on phonology. My third language interest is to perform the dance (skeleton moves - pÉtÍœ jÉ'tÍœ jÉ'chÍœ jÉ) as a creative expression of myself.
Daniel Parson (USA 2017) Founder of Sidosi, advancing and promoting Solresol (the universal musical language) since 2011. Also, web developer, computer technician, musician, and barefooter.
Andrea Patten (USA 2016) Continuing the work of my father, W. John Weilgart, PhD, on aUI, the Language of Space, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUI_(constructed_language)
Alexandra Penland (UK 2022) Alex was a museum kid: the act of running rampant through the Smithsonian from an early age kicked off a lifelong inspiration for science fiction and science-inspired fantasy. Growing up underwater didn’t help—Alex has been a certified diver since the age of twelve. They have worked in the field with NASA scientists, linguists, and acclaimed photographers.
They currently live in Scotland while studying for a PhD at the University of Edinburgh (where they completed an MSc with Distinction in 2020), but prior adventures include founding a writing organization in Iowa, freelance editing, and volunteering at the National Zoo. Their work has been internationally published in The Midwest Review, Orion’s Belt magazine, and the Strange Lands anthology.
Conlangery Podcast (USA 2021) Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. George Corley is the voice behind the cast.
Rasmus Praestholm (USA 2016) Co-Founder at The Terasology Foundation
Kevin Rae (USA 2021) An avid conlanger, writer, artist, actor, and podcaster, Kevin has been creating languages ever since 9th grade when he made a knock-off Spanish relex. Currently, he is working on an a posteriori language called K'awatl'.
Margaret Ransdell-Green (USA 2017) I am a graduate student in linguistics (documentary linguistics) at the University of Hawai'i at MÄnoa (Honolulu, HI) and I've been conlanging since 1998.
Eureka Savonarola (Canada 2022) Undergrad linguistics student at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Native speaker of Chinese, proficient in Japanese and English.
Theodore Schimizzi (USA 2022)
John Scott (Canada 2022) Creator of Baldung language for Netflix Original series Archive 81; post-graduate (MA/PhD) academic background in linguistics, language acquisition, modern & historical Germanic languages; additional experience with modern Turkic languages, tone language systems; can produce/supply conlang grammar and lexicon, translations, writing system/script, recordings, accent coaching for actors.
Madison Scott-Clary (USA 2019) Madison is a writer, editor, and software engineer living in the PNW.
Isaac Silbert (Australia 2018) I have dabbled in the art of conlanging for many years now although I myself can't quite remember when I first got into conlanging. Many of my brief sketches have included quite rare typological features in an attempt to better understand them. Currently an undergraduate in engineering and mathematics, but I always have time for conlanging.
Dylan Turner (USA 2021) I'm a graduating college senior at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology studying Electrical and Software Engineering, and I love to make things.
I make electronics, video games, poetry, musics, and yes, conlangs!
Brian Umberger (USA 2013) Artist. Author. Publisher. Gamer. Visionary. ​Creator of The Clockworld Chronicles "Cant of the Tears" (Books Under Development). For more information please visit me at ... http://conlang.umberger.me
Joseph Windsor (Canada 2016) Joseph (Joey) is the LCS President (2018-2024). He is a PhD Linguist who works as a Knowledge Translator in the Cumming School of Medicine in Calgary, Canada. His passion in conlangs is in creating naturalistic languages for use in Dungeons & Dragons settings.
