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Many texts, videos, audio recordings, audio streams, and linguistic articles are online now. A vastly improved situation compared to 20 year...

Alas! too busy with making a living to make a proper conlang, but still the itch arises from time to time, and it when it does I fiddle with...

facila klavaro por Mac OS X ankaŭ nova versio de la lingvoludo Esperanto sen Fleksio kaj mi kelkfoje pepas esperante ĉe @herezono

Having another fit of interest in the oligosynthetic language Sona. It comes in waves, about once every five years. Doing some writing about...

  Above: Part of a painting by Francesco Majotto showing Mesrop Mashtots inventing the Armenian alphabet. I recently noticed a weird simila...

  March 31st is World Backup Day, an annual opportunity for humans around the globe to think about the importance of backing up any compute...

  (cross-posted from the Conlang mailing list, with a few additions) Barbara Newhall Follett was a brilliant young woman who had a couple of...

The release of Michael Erard’s book Babel No More has resulted in several news articles about “hyperpolyglots,” people who enjoy learning m...

Google Translate has added Esperanto to its list of supported languages. It will be interesting to watch this and see if the quality of the ...

  I just stumbled across a blog that mentions some newly invented writing systems that have been proposed for minority and endangered natura...

  Version 6.1 of Unicode, the ultimate system for computerized encoding of all the world’s writing systems, has been released. A summary of ...

  The book Learning ROILA was published a couple of months ago. “The RObot Interaction Language (ROILA) is a new spoken language that is op...