Segments
Segments: A Journal of Constructed Languages is a quarterly journal published by a small team of dedicated conlangers. Our goal is to provide a showcasing space for conlangers to present aspects of their work, while also serving as a valuable resource for community members who want to get inspiration for their projects.
Issue #01
Phonology
April 2021.
Our inaugural issue, we asked for submitters to write articles on their conlang’s phonology. We received a wide variety of articles that covered a bunch of different phonology-related topics, from tone and prosody to stress systems and allophony.
Issue #04
Lexicon
January 2022.
Our first end-of-year issue, we went with Lexicon as a topic to align with Lexember! It was a fun topic and we got a lot of really interesting articles.
Issue #02
Verbal Constructions
July 2021.
We asked for articles about how verbs work in submitters’ conlangs. We got articles focused on different aspects of verbal systems, ranging from tense and aspect systems to evidentiality to funky conjugation paradigms.
Issue #05
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers
April 2022.
We grouped together a bunch of different types of modification into one larger category for the theme of this issue.
Issue #03
Noun Constructions
October 2021.
A plethora of articles about interesting aspects of nominal systems in submitters’ conlangs. We got articles focused on case marking, noun phrases, relativization, and more.
Issue #06
Writing Systems
August 2022.
Writing systems and orthographies are topics that come up quite frequently in conlang communities, and a lot of conlangers have questions about how to go about designing a script and then digitizing it. These articles are a great how-to for developing naturalistic scripts and for making them into functional fonts.