Discussing and documenting constructed languages in the same way as linguistics does with natural languages is well and good in its own right. Like natural languages, however, conlangs are also enjoyable when put to use as tools of artistic expression.

This page contains a collection of materials—texts and sounds—doing just this. For more recent texts, LaTeX sources can be found on GitHub.

2025

• Ein fruchtloses Bemühen: Beitrag zum zweiten Relay des Berliner Conlang-Stammtischs [Blog] [Text]

2024

• Eine hundsgemeine Geschichte: Beitrag zum Relay des Berliner Conlang-Stammtischs 2024 [Blog] [Text] [Audio]
• Inunye kora: Weirdly arpeggiated fishes

2023

• Silent Night: A Christmas Carol in Ayeri

2016

• Der Fuchs und der Hahn
• The North Wind and the Sun: An Ayeri translation, revisited

2015

• Fences and Gardens: An Ayeri Translation of a Medieval Neighborhood Dispute
• The First Two Chapters from Saint-Exupéry’s “Le Petit Prince”
• The Lord’s Prayer in Ayeri: An Updated Translation

2014

• Honey Everlasting
• The Beginning of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”
• The Scientific Method [Blog] [Audio]

2013

• Psalm 23: The Good Shepherd

2012

• Franz Kafka: A Message from the Emperor [Text] [Audio]
• The Sheep and the Horses – Schleicher’s Fable

2011

• Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Conlang Relay 18 [Text] [Audio]
• LCC4 Relay [Text] [Audio]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias [Text] [Audio]
• Sugar Fairies [Text] [Audio]

2010

• Conlang Relay 17 [Text] [Audio]

2009

• The upside-down ice skater

2008

• The Lord’s Prayer [Text] [Audio]
• The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) [Text] [Audio]

2005

• The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9)

2004

• The Northwind and the Sun