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This page collects a number of entrusted, and foremost - free, sources of linguistic and specialised information by the conlanging community, and the users of the Linguifex Wiki. | This page collects a number of entrusted, and foremost - free, sources of linguistic and specialised information by the conlanging community, and the users of the Linguifex Wiki. | ||
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===Word generators=== | |||
'''Word generators''' allow conlangers to quickly create a lexicon from a simple phonology and a defined syllabic structure. This may be used to create a full lexicon or to simply pick the genereated words that appeal to you. | |||
*[https://www.vulgarlang.com/ VulgarLang: a conlang generator website] | |||
*[http://bprhad.wz.cz/awkwords/index.php Awkords] | |||
*[http://www.zompist.com/gen Zompist word generator] by [[w:Mark Rosenfelder|Mark Rosenfelder]]. | |||
*[https://www.vulgarlang.com/atlas/ Atlas: an auxlang tool] | |||
===Sound change appliers=== | |||
*[http://www.zompist.com/sca2.html Zompist sound change applier] and a [http://users.cwnet.com/millenia/SoundChangerSumerian.htm version] | |||
:The '''Sound Change Applier''', '''SCA''', is a program created by [[w:Mark Rosenfelder|Mark Rosenfelder]]. This page describes a simple program which can apply a set of sound changes to a lexicon. You can use sounds to help work out a reconstruction for actual languages, to create plausible descendants of a conlang, or in fact to make any structured set of lexical changes to a database of words. | |||
*[https://github.com/sfmorrigan/toolbox-sca/releases Haedus Toolbox Sound Change Applier] and forum post [http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=42368 here]. | |||
:The '''Haedus Toolbox SCA''' is a very nice, phonetic segment-operating sound change applier created by Fiona Morrigan, a computational linguist and conlanger. Runs from the command line using Java and is easily configured with text files. | |||
===Keyboard layout editors=== | |||
'''Keyboard layout editors''' allow the users to create their customised keyboards, which enable them to write the full Unicode, and a large portion of the International Phonetic Alphabet, as well as a veriety of international writing systems. | |||
*[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=Keyboard%20Layout%20Creator&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator] (''for Windows'') | |||
*[http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele Ukelele] (''for Mac'') | |||
===International Phonetic Alphabet=== | |||
*[http://ipa.typeit.org/full/ IPA on TypeIt] | |||
'''TypeIt''' is a free web-based keyboard which enable the full International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA, and some extensions to it, to be simply copy-pasted. Some web browsers have a couple of problems with the shortcuts when writing online, but mouse-clicking always works. TypeIt also features 20 Latin alphabets and their extensions as well as matematical, currency and miscellaneous Unicode symbols. | |||
*[http://westonruter.github.com/ipa-chart/keyboard/ Weston Ruter's International Phonetic Alphabet chart] | |||
An IPA chart by the devoted web-developer '''Weston Ruter'''. Allows a quick access to all symbols and diacritics of the Phonetic Alphabet as of 2005. | |||
===Wiki tools=== | ===Wiki tools=== | ||
*[https://code.google.com/archive/p/claded/ Clade Editor] | *[https://code.google.com/archive/p/claded/ Clade Editor] | ||
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: '''The X-Sampa to IPA Conversion Tool''' is a handy online code converter that transforms X-SAMPA to IPA. This is particularly handy when you receive material from another source that uses X-SAMPA for mapping phonology and don't know the IPA equivalents for X-SAMPA notation. | : '''The X-Sampa to IPA Conversion Tool''' is a handy online code converter that transforms X-SAMPA to IPA. This is particularly handy when you receive material from another source that uses X-SAMPA for mapping phonology and don't know the IPA equivalents for X-SAMPA notation. | ||
==General== | |||
===Conlangery=== | ===Conlangery=== | ||
*[http://conlangery.com/ The Conlangery podcast] | *[http://conlangery.com/ The Conlangery podcast] | ||
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*[http://phoible.org/ Phoible] | *[http://phoible.org/ Phoible] | ||
“PHOIBLE Online is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. The 2014 edition includes 2155 inventories that contain 2160 segment types found in 1672 distinct languages.” | “PHOIBLE Online is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source documents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. The 2014 edition includes 2155 inventories that contain 2160 segment types found in 1672 distinct languages.” | ||
*[http://phonotactics.anu.edu.au/ World Phonotactics Database] | *[http://phonotactics.anu.edu.au/ World Phonotactics Database] | ||
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To apply these ideas to the question of keyboarding IPA characters, see the article by John Wells [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/eureka-ipa.doc here]. | To apply these ideas to the question of keyboarding IPA characters, see the article by John Wells [http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/eureka-ipa.doc here]. | ||
==Social media== | ==Social media== | ||