LCS Members

A Selection of LCS Members

Chase Agheli (USA 2018)

Liz Ancel (USA 2018) Linguistics minor and Speech Language Pathology student.

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".

William S. Annis (USA 2012)

Anthony Aristar (USA 2012) Retired professor of Linguistics. Founder of LINGUIST List. Focus: historical linguistics and endangered languages. Building complete worlds using GIS.

Carl Avlund (Denmark 2018) I am a boy from the island of Sjælland in Denmark. I'm a student, and will probably remain so for a couple of years. Conlanging is one of my greatest hobbies, and I put a lot of pride into my work. I'm especially fascinated by historical linguistics and extinct languages. I like to work with ancient, Stone Age-like conworlds and the evolution of such, both linguistically and culturally.

Mike Bacon (USA 2013) Atlanta, GA. creator of Kardak.

Sascha Baer (Switzerland 2015) Moderator of /r/conlangs on reddit and of the most active conlanging server - come say hi at https://discord.gg/WE7XCv4

Doug Ball (USA 2009) Inventor of Skerre. Professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri.

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

Claire Benham (USA 2018) Discovered the existence of linguistics in high school, thanks to Latin. Read many pilfered ling 101 slides from various colleges that talked about how only one language per fantasy novel didn't make much linguistic sense. Read Tolkien. Looked at own stack of amateur fiction writing. Got Ideas. | Tried her best not to major in linguistics in college, but it couldn't be helped. Now holds a BA, seeking PhD.

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)

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.

Padraic Brown (USA 2010)

Galen Buttitta (USA 2017)

Callum (USA 2018)

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.

John E. Clifford (USA 2007) Epigone: Loglan, Lojban, aUI, toki pona (tpnimi.blogspot.com)

Michael Conners (USA 2018)

Jorge Cristino (Portugal 2009)

Jesse Daines (USA 2018)

Ralph L. DeCarli (USA 2011) Creator of Instrumentation

Wyatt Denious (USA 2018)

Jeffrey Denniston (USA 2016)

Mary Diedrich (USA 2018)

Darren Doyle (USA 2018)

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.

Martin Ellison (USA 2018)

Joseph Engelhardt (USA 2017)

E M Epps (USA 2010) Creator of Hadra.

Alex Fink (USA 2010)

Amanda Furrow (USA 2007)

Enrique Gamez (USA 2018)

Iro Gates Paine (USA 2018)

John Gluckman (USA 2016)

Jay Goldstuck (South Africa 2018) I am an avid linguist with a passion for creating languages for fiction - specifically for film.

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.

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.

Connor Hanzsek-Brill (USA 2018) Community organizer of the Dothraki speaking community online. Admin of the discord server, moderator of the subreddit and of the wiki.

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)

James Hopkins (USA 2012) "Itlani is my main conlang. My other languages are (in order of most development): Djanari (Nordsh), Semerian (Pomolito Zulu), Djiran (Ijira Rova) and Lastulani (Lastig Klendum). Five in all, all spoken in the planet Itlán (the venue of my soon to be published novel Circle of the Lantern."

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.

Kelvin Jackson (USA 2011)

Jacqueline (Italy 2017) I love learning and creating non-alphanumeric languages. I've studied Japanese for almost a year, and am learning Chinese in school. Learning languages is a major passion of mine; I was late to class once because I discovered that Tibetan has stroke order. I enjoy creating character sets that are consistent, unambiguous, and efficient, and I draw ideas from languages around the world.

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

BenJamin P. Johnson (USA 2014) Germanicist, former IT Professional, beer brewer, cheese-maker, fountain pen enthusiast. Major personal conlangs include Northeadish (Germanic a posteriori), Maltcégj (a priori), Valthungian (GutGrējutungiška Rasta or Sō Grējuga Tunga - East Germanic a posteriori with Latin influence), 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.

Nina-Kristine Johnson (USA 2016)

Joe Knapp (USA 2018)

Charles Labelle (France 2016)

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)

Murdoch Macleod (Canada 2016)

Piermaria Maraziti (Italy 2012) Has been conlanging since he can remember.

Lisa Maroski (USA 2016) Author, playwright

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.

mek (USA 2016)

Jan Michalsky (Germany 2016) PhD in Linguistics (Experimental Phonetics). Teaching constructed languages as a University course at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

James Miller (Australia 2010)

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)

Taleia Mueller (USA 2018)

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.

Cooper Nagengast (USA 2012)

Philip Newton (Germany 2011)

Dan Nielsen (USA 2017)

Elise Nims (USA 2018)

Natanya 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.

Aaron Parker (USA 2017) Aaron is a student at Harding University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies: The Vocal Interpretation of Ancient Languages and Literatures. In this degree, Aaron's focus is on the interaction of textuality, orality, and literature in the ancient world through the study of ancient languages, communication, theology, linguistics, and music.

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)

Matt Pearson (USA 2010) Matt is the creator of the Okuna language (formerly Tokana), and also the creator of the Thhtmaa language, which he created for the television series Dark Skies.

Peter (Canada 2018)

David Peterson (USA 2007) "I keve'ave'a, ka kupi ei foe leveya..." (Kamakawi, "Once upon a time, I was sitting by the sea...", from the LCC3 relay)

Max Poston (USA 2018)

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

John Quijada (USA 2011)

Benjamin Riggleman (USA 2018) University student in Maine, engineered-language enthusiast. Favorite conlangs: Lojban, Toaq, Ithkuil. In Lojban: .uicoi la banfingirzu

RublevIcon (USA 2018)

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

David Salo (USA 2015) David splits his conlanging time between studying the languages of J.R.R. Tolkien and inventing conlangs of his own. He is the author of A Gateway to Sindarin and did language consultation on the filmed versions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, in the course of which he developed languages based on Tolkien's Khuzdul, Orkish, and Black Speech. More recently he's been working on Nrtranya, an a posteriori Indo-European language. David is the owner of the Elfling mailing list (elfling.midgardsmal.com) and a moderator of the Facebook Constructed Languages page.

Sea (USA 2017)

Ángel Serrano Sánchez de León (Spain 2014) Creator of Aingeljã, a Romance-based conlang.

Rie Sheridan Rose (USA 2013)

Marcus Shiu 徐轶 (China 2012) Creator of the Akul language.

David Sicé (France 2018) I have a law degree and teach French as a foreign language, piano and singing. I am the author of role-playing table gamesshort stories, novels and essays in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Fantasy, as well as the textbook L'art du Récit (The Art of Storytelling) devoted to writing all media, linear and interactive. I have just completed the Stellar language, which allows, among other things, to import any lexical word from a foreign language to start speaking and writing immediately, using only 280 elementary words and affixes. I have been a member of the L'Atelier de Création linguistique et de mondes imaginaires (Linguistic and imaginary worlds workshop) for ten years now, a French on-line forum. I also run a blog about SF.

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.

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.

Tim Smith (USA 2013)

Rodrigo Solano (Brazil 2012) Allamej is a hybrid language, resulting from mixing several world languages. It aims a semiotic reflexion on what segregates humanity.

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

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.

Alice Steinke (USA 2018)

Rowan Stephenson (USA 2017)

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

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

Moaaz TC (Sweden 2018) Teen who's really interested in conlanging. Originally from Egypt but lives in Sweden.

Seumas The Red (UK 2018) Seumas The Red is a Scottish wizard who likes made up languages, Gàidhlig, and 3D printing.

Benjamin Tkach (USA 2016)

Alessandri Ubbiali (Italy 2018) I am an English teacher at a bilingual primary school in the north of Italy. I am very interested in languages, I can speak English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and a little Swedish. I took a degree in Germanic philology and applied linguistics of English. I can read and understand Latin, Old English and Middle High German.
Actually I dare say I am a language creator. I have always invented languages but I thought to be crazy till I knew J. R. R Tolkien did it... and then I realised I am not the only one, luckily!

Brian Umberger's Media Endeavors (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

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.

Lee Walter (USA 2014) Current work is centered around the Anyuvin language (aka Varindjo) and the development of software to support conlang development.

Britton Watkins (USA 2013)

Michael Weber (Austria 2012) Creator of Lemizh.

Lisa Weißbach (Germany 2015)

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.

Patrick Wilcox (New Zealand 2018)

Sasha Xylona (USA 2018)