Christian Meredith's Conlanging

Here you can find some of my conlangs that I am working on or concepts I've started on but never fleshed out enough.

Coming soon! (as of the 7th of August 2009)

Soon I am going to start posting progressive versions of some conlanging I have been doing. Some of these ideas are half-baked, others I'm proud of. I'm not guaranteeing that they will ever be completed though, but if you want you can contact me and continue and projects I've put on hiatus. Speaking of which, Kleinsprak has been halted in favour of letting the folks working on Folkspraak (no pun intended) work without any interfering ideas.

Kleinsprak - on hiatus

This is the latest project I've started on, basically it's a Germanic conlang only using highly simplified grammar structures and so forth. It has a limited set of phonemes, with most of the sounds in the language being common in at least all the continental Germanic languages. It deviates from most Germanic auxlangs I know of through the way it treats grammar and vocabulary - sometimes, rather than using the Interlingua method, words or grammatical features have been purposely taken from one particular branch of the Germanic language family and not the other.

Conlangs I'm learning (or meant to be):

• Esperanto (@ eo.lernu.net)
• Lingua Franca Nova (@ lingua-franca-nova.net / wikibooks.org/wiki/Lingua Franca Nova - multilingual course)
• Ido (@ idomondo.org) - like Sambahsa, also on hold.
• Sambahsa (@ http://groups.google.com/group/sambahsa-mundialect?pli=1) - currently on hold as I work through university

Natlangs I'm learning

• Japanese subliminally via anime (mostly Shana) and manga (mostly Gintama). Ogenki desu ka riida-san?
• Swedish - Kan du snacker svenska?
• Dutch - Hoe gaat het met u? (mostly the "g" sound is my biggest obstacle)
• Bits of Danish, German, Chinese, Faroese, anything I feel like at the time :)

I recommend going to a site like this one http://swac-collections.org/?lang=swe and then going and getting a good self-tuition book like Hugo Dutch in three months (just an example, doesn't have to be Dutch) and then using those two resources to start you off if you want simple way to start learning natlangs like crazy.