The Language Construction Kit

This set of webpages is intended for anyone who wants to create artificial languages

International Phonetic Association

The IPA is the major as well as the oldest representative organisation for phoneticians. It was established in 1886 in Paris.

The IPA provides the academic community world-wide with a notational standard for the phonetic representation of all languages - the International Phonetic Alphabet (also IPA).

Phonetic Alphabet

These are not phonetic alphabets as in those used to guide pronunciation, rather they are a selection of alphabets used, particularly by radio operators, to spell out words.

Soundwalkers

Soundwalkers documentary by Raquel Castro

There are some fundamental principles regarding the construction of an acoustically healthy society, one where we can exist within the sounds of life. Respect towards voice and words, sonic awareness, the awakening of the sense of hearing. To preserve the sounds that tend to fade out, while remaining open to the sounds that spring out of each technological stride. To build an aural idiom that interprets its own symbolism. To accept the silence, enforcing it in the due moments. And, above all else, to listen.

Dead Languages Conservatory

Of the more than 6,500 languages currently being spoken, in the world, fewer than half are likely to survive the next century. a project by artist Pablo Helguera