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  • Language Creation Conference 12 in Copenhagen (DK)

    Some news, even with a bit of new ‘content’ (justified misgivings re that word aside) added to the page!

    The past weekend, I attended my first (and twelfth overall) Language Creation Conference. This edition of the event bringing together conlangers and members of the Language Creation Society (LCS) took place at Copenhagen University, organised (exceedingly well!) by a team led by Carl Avlund in cooperation with the LCS.

    Presenters from manifold fields and countries – primarily having in common a palpable passion for constructed languages – gave talks or led workshops related to the topic to an even more international and diverse audience. Volunteers from the LCS and Copenhagen University kindly live-streamed and also recorded all presentations; a playlist is available on the LCS YouTube for the perusal of anyone interested.

    I enjoyed all the talks I attended (too few, unfortunately), and am thrilled and thankful that I was given the opportunity to speak about Laut, my autistic conlang project, and the intersection of neurodiversity and (con)linguistics at this conference. The recording of my presentation will be available under Writings, but I’m also linking it directly here.

    Feel free to leave any comments or questions for me either using the comment function here or on YouTube!

  • Page Launch and NAT Founders Award

    Hello there and welcome to AutisticConlang.org! I’m Gideon (he/him), the creator of this website, which is intended to serve as a repository for all things related to autistics and linguistics, in particular constructed languages (conlangs). For a brief overview of the page, please click here.

    AutisticConlang.org is bound to always remain a work-in-progress. However, I’d at least like to soft-launch it now by – instead of greeting visitors with an ‘Under Construction’ placeholder – welcoming people with this post instead. Which even contains some news, so please read on…

    The Founders Award by the National Autistic Taskforce (NAT), presented in memory of NAT’s founder Dinah Murray, will now support the development of this website over the coming year!

    More information about Dinah, the award and other recipients can be found here on the website of the NAT.

    This means more contents will be added here bit by bit, including updates via the blog from time to time, and there should also be an overhaul of the design at some point. Meanwhile, feel free to join the community or get in touch by email.