Jaubert
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I've been working on a new app called Seshat Language Workshop, it is a browser tool for building a constructed language.
The way it works is that you start with Phonology, you can choose the sounds your language uses from an IPA chart, where one symbol stands for exactly one sound. Symbols carry a recorded human sample, so you click it and hear it rather than guessing from a written description. You then set the rules for which sounds are allowed to sit next to each other, called phonotactics, and the tool generates words and phrases that obey them. Generation is algorithmic rather than AI, so the output follows your rules and you can see why any given word came out the way it did.
The other thing it tries to do is teach as it goes. Every term is glossed where you meet it, with an example, because I came to this as a worldbuilder rather than a linguist and
built the tool I needed to help me and others understand how languages are built.
The phonology and writing sections are free for everyone. The rest, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, and the historical family tree, are in development at the moment.
You can try it for free at conlangcreator.com
Questions and feedback are more than welcome! Including the unflattering kind. If you try it and something confuses you, that is the single most useful thing you can tell me.
With love and care, Jaubert.
The way it works is that you start with Phonology, you can choose the sounds your language uses from an IPA chart, where one symbol stands for exactly one sound. Symbols carry a recorded human sample, so you click it and hear it rather than guessing from a written description. You then set the rules for which sounds are allowed to sit next to each other, called phonotactics, and the tool generates words and phrases that obey them. Generation is algorithmic rather than AI, so the output follows your rules and you can see why any given word came out the way it did.
The other thing it tries to do is teach as it goes. Every term is glossed where you meet it, with an example, because I came to this as a worldbuilder rather than a linguist and
built the tool I needed to help me and others understand how languages are built.
The phonology and writing sections are free for everyone. The rest, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, and the historical family tree, are in development at the moment.
You can try it for free at conlangcreator.com
Questions and feedback are more than welcome! Including the unflattering kind. If you try it and something confuses you, that is the single most useful thing you can tell me.
With love and care, Jaubert.
