Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers

Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers

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Martha Megarry
Audio
Game Design
The Legend of Zelda’s Hylian Language
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Fandom
The Language Creation Society
A list of constructed languages in video games.
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Wikipedia
Myst’s created language, D’ni.
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Fandom
UK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry'
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Gail Hairston
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University of Kentucky
SIL’s Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale
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SIL
Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts
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Matt Miller
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Game Informer
Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages
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Omniglot
The Conlangers Library game list
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Conlangers Library
No Man’s Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles
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Jeffrey Parkin
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Polygon
The Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.)
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mykwud
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YouTube
Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II
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Owen Good
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Kotaku
Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'
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Alex Roberts
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Waypoint
Scientology’s enturbulating lingo
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Britt Peterson
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The Boston Globe
Kathryn Hymes on Twitter
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@chiclashaw
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Twitter
The Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free…
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book
Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r…
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book
Speaking ‘Star Trek’: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language
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Matt Blitz
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Popular Mechanics
The Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists.
International Phonetic Alphabet
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Wikipedia
Mass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador
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Thieving HIppo
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YouTube
Gaming’s favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way
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Allegra Frank
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Polygon
Cantonese vs. Mandarin
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Off the Great Wall
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YouTube
Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree
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Arika Okrent
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Mental Floss
The Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang.
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Podcast