

CD Covington’s Guide to Linguistic Worldbuilding
Aug 16, 2023
CD Covington, author of an upcoming book on linguistic worldbuilding, discusses exploring challenges of navigating culture and language, phonetics in linguistic worldbuilding, creating realistic and comprehensible alien languages, prestige dialects, integrating language into narrative and world building, and borrowing words and phonetic changes in a new language.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
Exploring the Challenges of Navigating Culture and Language
03:54 • 13min
Exploring Phonetics in Linguistic Worldbuilding
17:23 • 3min
Creating Realistic and Comprehensible Alien Languages
19:54 • 5min
Linguistic Worldbuilding and Prestige Dialects
25:14 • 9min
Integrating Language into Narrative and World Building
34:34 • 11min
Borrowing Words and Phonetic Changes
46:03 • 3min