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The purpose of this article is to help those authors who want to include language and linguistics in their books but don’t feel that they have sufficient skills, experience, or knowledge to properly write a conlang, and who don’t feel that they have the time (or the desire) to take actual linguistics classes and read all of the many books published on the topic of creating conlangs. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need to be an expert to include language in your book. You don’t even need...

Conlanging, or the process by which someone creates a constructed language (conlang) has become more and more popular in recent decades. People create languages for a myriad of reasons, including cinema, books, videogames, role-playing campaigns, or even just for fun either as a side project or for personal use, or for real life functioning communication like Esperanto. The object of this paper is to study one of these fields in particular, that of conlanging for use in science fiction or...