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     Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius  is a 1940 short story by Jorge Borges, translated into English in 1961 and appearing in the collection Laby...

     Iljena  is an alien conlang by Pete Bleackley, also the author of  Khangaþyagon  which I reviewed previously.      The key conceit of I...

The actual Russian dialog in the John Wick movies is, uh... not great? But, the fact that John Wick is diegetically fluent in Russian ends u...

Human Actors Shouldn't Be Able to Speak Alien Languages How Would We Know If We're Talking to Aliens? Stridulation in Landscape with...

Isn't a little weird that humans can speak Na'vi? Or that aliens can learn to speak English? Or, heck, Klingon! The Klingon language...

I'm going meta! I'm reviewing people who are reviewing people who use conlangs in fiction! Reading Fictional Languages   (that's...

A follow-up to my review of Xenolinguistics . Suppose we encounter aliens and begin linguistic fieldwork in earnest. Or, suppose that we hav...

Recently I got thinking about syntax trees, and what a purely-written language might be like that was restricted to the syntactic structures...

Episode 6 of season 2 of Marvel's What If...  ( "What if... Kahhori Reshaped the World?" ) features Mohawk people and Spanish ...

Brandon Sanderson has never put a conlang in a book. But he is aware of them, and has done stuff with fictional languages and naming practic...