iSchool Capstone

LangTime Engine: Simplifying Conlanging, One Word at a Time

Project tags:

knowledge organization

Responsible for languages such as Klingon and Dothraki, constructed language creators invent the grammar, phonology, and lexicon of fictional languages - a practice known as “conlanging”. Despite the growing popularity of conlanging, conlangers lack sufficient tools to document their languages. In turn, conlangers devote significant time and effort towards recording information by-hand. In this capstone project our team collaborated with renowned conlangers David Peterson and Jessie Sams to create LangTime Engine, an application that simplifies the process of recording a conlang’s lexicon. As a result, we hope to ease the manual burden of conlangers and to make conlanging more accessible.

Project participants:

Gavin Hyppa

Informatics

Samuel Lucia

Informatics

Wintana Eyob

Informatics

Lance Haugen

Informatics

Bryan Ahaneku

Informatics