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
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