La Conjugadora - Enter a Spanish verb infinitive and conjugate it for all 6 persons in 9 different tenses. Works with most common irregular verbs and all non-stem-changing regular verbs.
LangMaker 2 Mailing List - This mailing list is a companion to the LangMaker Model Languages web site and provides a forum for people to talk about invented languages, such as Tolkien's Elvish languages, Klingon, Esperanto, Nadsat and others. If you like fiction with model languages, think the world needs a common artificial language, or just like to make up words, this list is for you. It's a closed list, by invitation only. Click here to request an invite.
LangMaker.com Word List Overview - This is a meta-list I manually maintained before I started accepting Resource submissions. Check out Animal Ideas For Country And Region Names, Basic English Word List, Global Numbers, LEX Files, and a couple English word lists.
Language and Linguistics Pages and Links - Some of the essays of Robin Turner, including "An international language, the need, the candidates and the prospects."
Language Construction 101 - A simple, nine-step introduction to the art of language making by Suzette Haden Elgin, author of the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series and the language LáAdan.
Language Construction Kit - Mark Rosenfelder's premiere tutorial on how to invent your own language.
Language Identifier - A tool to identify the language from a selection of text. Humorously reviewed on conlangs by Tenser, said the Tensor.
Language Invention - John Foreman at UCLA put together a curriculum for a college class called "Language Invention". The course's site is full of interesting material and suggestions.
Language Miniatures - Mini-essays about language.
Language Museum - Samples of 2,000 languages.
Languages in Contact - Forms of language contact : contact languages, pidgins, creole, mixed languages, ... A mixed language is often a de facto conlang : Media Lengua-ga asi Ingichu-munda Castallanu-da abla-na kiri-xu-sha Media Lengua-TOP thus Quechua-from Spanish-ACC talk-NOM want-PROG-SUB "Media Lengua is like this, if you want to go from talking Quechua to Spanish, no abla-naku-ndu-mi asi chaupi-ga Castallanu laya, i chaupa-ga Ingichu laya abla-ri-na ga-n. not talk-PL-SUB-AFF thus half-TOP Spanish like and half-TOP Quechua like talk-REFL-NOM be-3 but you can't, then you talk half like Spanish and half like Quechua."
(La)TeX/METAFONT for Conlangers - Latex-for-conlangers is a Yahoo!Groups mailing list. There's also an RSS feed of the list. Here's the description from the group page: "TeX/METAFONT is a set of declarative programming languages for high-quality typesetting of printed documents, created by Donald E. Knuth. While TeX is used to create the documents themselves, METAFONT is used to generate the fonts with which those documents are typeset. LaTeX is a famous macro package sitting on top of TeX and designed by Leslie Lamport to simplify typesetting with TeX while keeping all its power, and is usually preferred over TeX. Together, (La)TeX and METAFONT form an extremely powerful and free tool able to typeset documents in any language and any script you can imagine, and is thus a perfect tool for conlangers to write texts and grammars in and of their languages. Unfortunately, they suffer from a reputation of complexity which! frightens most people. METAFONT in particular is victim of this reputation and is rarely even considered as a usable tool of font design. The lack of METAFONT tutorials or discussion forums doesn't help to enhance this situation either."
The Legend-Makers: An Essay in Defense of Mythopoeia - I have always believed that conlanging, conculturing, and conworlding, which I together refer to as mythopoeia, are truly arts, but many people have trouble accepting this idea. In this essay, I attempt to set down my reasons as to why mythopoeia is not only an art, but indeed the most natural, powerful art of all. (Temporarily hosted on my blog; soon to be moved. I'll update the link when that occurs.)
Livejournal Conlangs Community - An open community for the learning, practice, development, discussion, and analysis of constructed languages.
Longman Defining Vocabulary - The set of about 2250 words and affixes that the Longman English Dictionary uses to write all its definitions.
Lord's Prayer in 1000+ Languages and Dialects - Translations of the Lord's Prayer into many natural and constructed languages.
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