This infographic is a how-to guide that showcases a six-step-approach to creating your own constructed language (con-lang) that is applicable to film/television/media.
Author
Indiana Humniski
Indiana Humniski is a 2nd year student, majoring in English and soon-to-transfer into the Honours stream. Indiana has taken a keen interest in learning more about linguistics since taking “Language and Gender” in her first year of university with Dr. Loureiro-Rodriguez at the University of Manitoba. Her idea sparked when watching James Cameron’s sequel to Avatar, where the constructed-language of Na’vi takes centre stage. Outside of class, Indiana enjoys casual analysis of the lyrics of Taylor Swift and boygenius, working her way through classic literature, and taking walks with her campus friends.
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