The BG Language Creation Guide

Developed initially for English 290 at Bowling Green State University, these steps will guide you toward the creation of an artificial language of your own. In class, we will follow these steps in sequence, but feel free to look ahead as knowledge of upcoming tasks might be useful to you.

Where appropriate, I've included a link to an example of each step. These are mainly from Liqupa, a language I have been working on myself for some time. These examples are reasonably complex and are provided so you can see how to format your work and get an idea what a complete answer might look like. Please feel free to use them for guidance and clarification, but create your own system at each step. At some points, I've included a " Just let me see your data" link for those of you who would rather see the data and figure out the rules for yourselves before reading explanations and examples.

Getting Started; Culture; Phonetics' Phonology, Nouns, Verbs

STOP!
Make sure You Know How to Gloss Sentences before Continuing

Moving on: More Morphosyntax; Language Contact


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Updated 8/7/2008