Switching Platforms

 I recently found a great website for conlanging: conworkshop.com. It’s part tool, part community, free, and built by conlangers. It has oodles of great tools and systems for documenting languages, so from now on, I’ll be switching over from Blogger/Google Sheets to Conworkshop for documenting Bullywug. If you’re interested in learning more about Bullywug as it grows, check out my username bwug or the language code BWG on Conworkshop.


Here are some of the cool features I’ve explored so far:

- A December challenge to create and share a word (or 10) a day.



- A dictionary that shows the conscript and is easy to edit and sort. Here's my entry for the Bullywug word for water. The Bullywug script is just to the right of the romanization 'bo.'


- A set of sentences to help you develop and test your language's grammar. 

- A chart that shows the frequency of all phonemes/letters.

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