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Written Languages and Conlanging

 

Natural Languages

Silvia Ferrara’s new book, The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (translated wonderfully by Todd Portnowitz)

Katherine Russell Rich's Dreaming in Hindi

Ann Patty's Living with a Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Maria Heim's Words for the Heart: A New Book from Maria Heim

LANGUAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD: The undecipherable rongorongo script of Easter Island
Jacob Mikanowski (Cabinet Magazine)

 

Imaginary Languages

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2016. “Imaginary Languages Through the Ages” Robbins Library at the University of Rochester. Rochester, NYImaginary (Artificial) Steven Travis. 

 

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by Arkady Martine

Teixcalaanli is inspired by Nahuatl (... and Greek); Stationer is basically Space Armenian. I'm kinda a language nerd—Arkady Martine

Ted Chiang’s story Stories of Your Life and Others (and the film version Arrival--plus my 3QD essay here)

Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language

Steven Travis' constructed language Tapissary

Arika Okrent, in her delightfully fun book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language

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