Conlang! [khanlæŋ!]: Creating Constructed Languages – FREE 4-part Workshop – Session Four

Join us on Wednesday, August 22nd at 7 pm as Dean Easton teaches the last session of a FREE 4-part workshop! Dean Easton has been exploring and creating conlangs for many years, and recently taught a class at the Compass School. With graduate degrees in English and linguistics, and teaching experience in high schools and colleges in Turkey, China, Japan, Korea and the U.S., he brings a wealth of experience to conlanging and teaching.finished?”

Session Four: Test-driving Your Conlang

• • translation texts worksheet, conlang relays (playing telephone with conlangs), etc.
  • The Ant and the Grasshopper, The Babel Text, The North Wind and the SunScripts: alphabets, abjads, abugidas, syllabaries, characters

• • worksheet – the power of doodling for creating a script
  • examples of Cyrillic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Japanese
  • matches and mismatches between script and sound – Swedish, Irish, Chinese

Concultures and Conworlds – Tolkien and Elvish, Rosenfelder and Almeaindividual consultations as desiredResources and References – handoutWrap-up/Conlanging Certificates

For more information, contact Dean Easton at eastondean@gmail.com