Conlangs Worth a Look

• Cuhbi by Yng
• Himmaswa by Clawgrip
• Kahtsaai by William Annis
• Kēlen by Sylvia Sotomayor
• Novegradian by Martin Posthumus
• Okuna by Matt Pearson
• Shapshiruckish by Pthag
• Siwa by Étienne L. Poisson
• Zevy (Deevie) by Sevly

Discussion Forums

• Conlangs Subreddit
  A subreddit dedicated to constructed languages which has been active since 2010. Puts the focus on hands-on conlanging.
• The CBB
  Discussion board for constructed languages.
• The Conlang Mailing List (CONLANG-L)
  A mailing list on constructed languages, founded in 1991 or thereabouts. Main gathering place of Language Creation Society folks.
• The LCS’s list of online conlanging communities
  An even longer list of conlangery on the internet than this one.
• Zompist Bulletin Board (ZBB)
  Discussion board for Mark “Zompist” Rosenfelder’s stuff. You’re encouraged to also discuss linguistics and your own fictional languages and worlds.

How-Tos

• How to Create a Language
  Pablo David Flores’ starters’ guide on creating languages. A nice complement to Mark Rosenfelder’s guide.
• Sprachenbastler-Tutorial
  Ein Crashkurs zum Erschaffen fiktionaler Sprachen.
• The Language Construction Kit
  Mark Rosenfelder’s starters’ guide on fictional languages—by means of a basic linguistics intro.

Known from the Media

• Dothraki by David J. Peterson
  From the “Game of Thrones” TV series, 2011–2019.
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s various languages
  From the “Lord of the Rings” etc. books and movies.
• Klingon by Mark Okrand
  From the “Star Trek” TV series and movies.
• Na’vi by Paul Frommer
  From the “Avatar” movie, 2009.

Linguistics

• CALS – Conlang Atlas of Language Structures
  A typological database of fictional languages that is based on the WALS database.
• Index Diachronica
  Collection of historical sound changes from natural languages.
• Leipzig Glossing Rules
  A guide to abbreviations of functional morphemes as commonly used in interlinear glosses in linguistics.
• The Resources thread of the ZBB
  Links to language and linguistics resources collected by ZBB members over the years. Unfortunately not very organized.
• ValPaL
  Database of verb valency patterns.
• WALS – World Atlas of Language Structures
  A typological database of many natural languages, including tons of maps on the occurrence of grammatical features worldwide, including articles that explain them.
• WOLD – World Loanword Database
  Database of loanwords between natural languages. Also informs about words that are cross-linguistically (un)likely to get replaced by borrowings, i.e. useful for diachronic conlanging.

Software

• BabelMap Online
  The online version of the no less useful replacement for Windows’ own Character Map.
• FontForge
  FontForge, a very powerful open-source font editor. Works best in connection with a separate vector graphics program. Runs natively on Linux, but there are binaries for other systems, too.
• IPA Character Picker
  A page that presents an IPA chart whose characters are put in an editable text field as you click on them. You can then copy them out and paste them elsewhere.
• Type IPA phonetic symbols
  Another website that assists you in composing IPA character strings.
• WinCompose
  A little application for Windows that mimics the Compose Key functionality of Linux. Very useful for entering accented and a few other common special characters without memorizing Alt codes or changing keyboard layouts.

Suggested reading

• Acta Lingweenie
  William Annis’ blog. He’s one of the hosts of the Conlangery Podcast.
• Bad Conlanging Ideas
  A Tumblr blog providing crowdsourced conlang- and linguistics-related lulz.
• Conlangery Podcast
  A podcast program about conlanging. They deal with linguistics and review both fictional and real languages. Very informative.
• Miniature Conlangs
  Miekko’s blog, in which he presents little sketches on grammatical features. Miekko has quite a penchant for adding interesting twists and turns to things, so this is great for getting some inspiration!

Useful fonts

• Junicode
  An elegant roman typeface with lots of special characters, aimed at language scholars and especially so at medievalists.
• Noto font family
  A sans-serif font family by Google “that aims to support all the world’s languages”.
• Symbola Font
  A font based on Computer Modern Serif that contains many, many, many, many characters of the latest Unicode specification.
• The Brill
  Extensive roman typeface aimed at language scholars, free for personal use.

Writing systems

• Wikipedia: Writing Systems portal
  A list of Wikipedia articles on different writing systems found in the world. Do not use for academic research.