Language Construction, Language Design, Language Invention Services
We provide custom-consulting services to writers and businesses that need assistance creating names or constructed languages. Our past projects have included:
 Providing guidelines and suggestions for a naming language for a fantasy trilogy. Developing a detailed 14,000-word language for the background of a series of science-fiction novels.
Assisting the inventor of a proposed International Auxiliary Language to develop a business and marketing plan for his language.
Helping companies develop corporate brands and names for products and services.
Customizing Langmaker for Windows software for specific client needs.
If you are writing a novel, screenplay, computer game or other work of art that could benefit from the added believability a constructed language or language family provides, please contact us.
Questions to Consider
What type of vocabulary are you looking for? Historical (similar to Latin terms), fantasy medieval, science fiction?
Does your language need words for airplanes, rockets and computers? How ancient is it? .
Guidelines
The price range is typically from US$200 to US$2,000. At the higher end of the price range, you get some of the following:
Etymologies for the words (i.e., they derive from an ancestral language)
Hand-tailored lexical compounds (otherwise most words are single words like grindle rather than compounds like dogfish)
Hand-tailored polysemy (words have different related meanings as opposed to words having single meanings)
Sample translations into the language
Basically, the projects closer to $2000 end up having more naturalistic languages than the less expensive ones, simply because I can spend more time refining the language to your requirements. Also at the low end, I reserve the right to publish the language on the site as one of my languages (linking to your site).
Upon final payment, you acquire copyright to the language with the exception that I can publish it on Langmaker.com for no fee.
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