Create plausible and realistic languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies or video games, or international communication... or just learn about how languages work from an unusual, light-hearted perspective. The Language Construction Kit on zompist.com has helped a generation of conlangers to understand and create languages. It's expanded here with coverage of semantics and pragmatics, language families, writing systems, and sample wordlists, as well as an annotated sample grammar. Revised edition.

It's the 50th century. Socionomics makes the fifty human worlds of the Incatena prosperous and stable, if a bit raucous on Saturday nights. But socionomics doesn't cover crises, such as the dictatorship that's taken over Okura, or the unscrupulous tycoon who's plotting something over on New Bharat. For that we have Diplomatic Agents. Like Morgan. Is Morgan up to the task? The boss isn't sure. The station AI is doubtful. But our best Agents are out of town; time to see what Morgan can do. "A science fiction comedy, set in a future where the speed of light is respected, though grudgingly, and...

The sequel to the Language Construction Kit learn more about constructed languages and about linguistics: logic, pidgins and creoles, sign languages, the linguistic life cycle, and a meaty step-by-step survey of morphosyntax.

Create detailed and plausible languages for RPGs, fantasy and science fiction, movies, or video games... or just learn more about how languages work with the same accurate yet fun approach as the original LCK.

This is a companion volume to the fantasy novel "In the Land of Babblers." You could say it's the appendices that got way out of hand. In addition to collecting and updating the long-form material on Cuzei that's on my website- the grammar, the "Count of Years," the description of Cuzeian religion- this book includes a historical sketch of Cuzei; "The Munkhashi," a Silver Age play; a pietist response to Beretos' book ("The Shame of Eteia Mitano"); and a selection of 'Babbler' sources on Cuzei."

This is the omnibus edition containing "The Book of Cuzei"-- 380 pages of supplementary material including a grammar of Cuezi, "The Count of Years," and "The Munkhashi." --- Doesn't anyone want to face the demons? In this book the soldier and diplomat Beretos attempts to clear his name against charges that his mission to the Babblers was a failure. Across the Plain from his native Cuzei, a threatening empire is rising. Guarding the mountain pass is a small Babbler barony. Beretos is sent to build up their defenses. That is, if he can help persuade bored nobles that he should be allowed to...