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About us

We are the Seattle Conlang Club, originally founded in Fall 2019 as the Conlang Club at UW by like-minded fans and creators of constructed languages, or conlangs. Since then, we have had regular meetings where we create, discuss, and critique conlangs of all types. While not everyone has had formal linguistics study, we are all passionate about language and we welcome you to join us and create your own― no experience necessary!

Meeting schedule:
We meet every 2 weeks
Next meeting:
3-4 PM PT on Sunday October 27

Prospective members:
join our Discord!

Common meeting activities

Our meetings are mostly unstructured, but we have some activities we commonly do each meeting. Feel free to suggest activities for the next meeting, or volunteer to give a lightning talk!

IPA scrabble — Our 3D printed IPA Scrabble

Club conlangs: We often work on conlangs altogether as a whole club, usually centered around a central theme or set of goals. Look at some of our previous club conlangs and see the variety of conlangs we've made!
Lightning talks: Members present a short 10-minute lightning talk about their own conlangs, cool features of real languages, or anything else club-related.
Conlang potluck: We each make up a short sentence using a pre-generated phonology, with each word glossed/annotated with its morphology and meaning. Then, we present them and try to create one language that would make all of those sentences grammatical.
Lingustic puzzles: We work on linguistics puzzles as a club, usually Linguistics Olympiad problems from previous years.
IPA Scrabble: Scrabble played with letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) instead of the English alphabet. If you can convince everyone you pronounce a word a certain way, then the word is legal. Typically involves arguing about how each person pronounces words.

Officers

Frederick

𓀛 Presidential 💬︎ Linguistic 𒅥 Technomancer 💻︎

Dejvid

Davidic Grand Chancellor

David

Lesser Coprime Davidic Chancellor, The

Lewis

Guardian of the Digital Keep

D. D.

Pentafinger Quinaria Cinquefoil, of the Fifth Quintessential Quincunx

Grayson

Worldbuilding Adjacency Contriver

Past officers

Andrew

Andridic Master of Ultrahyperlimakitic Communications

JJ

Paper Procurer

Guest speakers

David J. Peterson & Dr. Jessie Sams

Professional Conlangers for Game of Thrones and Motherland: Fort Salem and hosts of LangTime Studio, David J. Peterson and Dr. Jessie Sams, gave a Q&A during our club meeting on May 15, 2023!

Discussion topics included:

The upcoming LangTime Engine, a tool for conlangers to keep track of their vocab and grammar
Evolution and change in the Conlanging community
Role of worldbuilding in conlanging
Alternatives to onions in cooking