The UnderLings are delighted to welcome conlangers David J. Peterson and Jessie Sams!
David J. Peterson is a language creator and author of The Art of Language Invention and Living Language Dothraki, and was a cofounder and original board member of the Language Creation society. Jessie Sams was a professor of linguistics at Stephen F. Austin State University for 13 years, where she created a conlanging course and taught students how to construct a language from the ground up, and now is a full-time professional conlanger. Between them, they have worked as language creators on numerous television shows and films, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Syfy’s Defiance, Netflix’s The Witcher, the CW’s The 100, Netflix’s Shadow and Bone, Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem, Marvel’s Doctor Strange, Peacock’s Vampire Academy, the second Dune movie, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
Please consider attending if you have any interest in creating your own language or learning about the processes that contribute to language creation.