I would love to have some more specific explanations of different KINDS of consonants / vowels / etc for this dictionary biggrin
Conlanger's Dictionary (links are below)
*Please do not be insulted by the simplicity. I want to make sure that everyone is on the same page, and I've always noticed that my elementary school seemed to be the only one in the state that taught basic stuff. So no flames, please biggrin
Alphabet -- System of letters, which can be combined to make sounds
Case --
yourdictionary.com
a. In traditional grammar, a distinct form of a noun, pronoun, or modifier that is used to express one or more particular syntactic relationships to other words in a sentence. b. Case In some varieties of generative grammar, the thematic or semantic role of a noun phrase as represented abstractly but not necessarily indicated overtly in surface structure. In such frameworks, nouns in English have Case even in the absence of inflectional case endings.
Consonant -- A sound which normally can not stand without a vowel, made by blocking the airway (b, t, k, h, etc)
Syllabary -- System of syllables, which are sounds on their own
Verb -- "The part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence in most languages." --yourdictionary.com (that's surprisingly hard to define well)
Vowel -- a sound that can stand alone and is made without blocking the airway, but by merely shaping it (a, i, u, e, o and such)
Links
The Language Construction Kit: A quickstart guide to coming up with conlangs. It helps insure that you don't forget the big stuff, at least.
How *I* do conlangs: My thread here; my kinda-sorta system on how to do a conlang the slightly-lazier-than-zompist way.
The IPA: Wikipedia's page on the Internation Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Handy if you understand the sounds and want to know how to represent them on your own conlang's page biggrin
IPA for English may be where you want to go if you just want to see sounds English makes wink
Origin of Language: This is the wikipedia page on the linguistic theories of origin of languages. Even if this isn't your thing, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, there are some links to other pages that you may find handy. (Including a link to their conlang page)
Ardalambion: For my fellow Tolkein fanboys.
Font Making Software: The very same that I used for Kintarasesa. Fairly simple to use.
MASSIVE WORDLIST: Like a gazillion words. Yes, English. Holy crap. It's scary!
BASIC WORDLIST: Another wordlist, this one much shorter. It's for someone who wants the essentials to start biggrin
"Essential World English": A conlangified English, sort of. Essentialifies English to kill off some of the "evilness" of our language, which I've taken advantage of many times in this description twisted Also contains a wordlist.
Conlang Wordmaker: I found this link floating about this forum, and added it here in case anyone is desperate enough to use it razz
http://www.langmaker.com : A wiki site with both conlangs and references/links. Pretty cool, I think. Whee, someone posted D&D's Draconic language! Well, most of it's elsewhere, but they link right to it biggrin
7 Distinctive Features of Germanic Languages--How reliable the site is, I dunno, but it was posted in this thread and may be useful to you or may help you track down more information about Germanic languages.
