Happy Holidays!!

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! I had a lovely day seeing some family, had a lovely time chatting with our mod team last night, and I hope to have a lovely day tomorrow as well -- I can only hope the same for you as well! I'm really grateful for friends, family, and community for 2024, and while I have many a goal for 2025, I wish for nothing more than the grace to persevere through the challenges and take meaningful steps towards the life I want for myself -- which certainly includes lots and lots of conlanging!! Without further delay: Segments!!

Segments is the official publication of /r/conlangs! We publish quarterly.

Call for Submissions!

Theme: Supra III

As has become an end-of-the-year tradition for our humble journal/magazine, we're opening the door for articles about any conlang-related topic that you may be interested in writing about! Missed an issue of Segments earlier this year? No worries, send us that article! Have an interesting topic that hasn't fit any theme this past year? Same, honestly, and now's the time to make it shine! Thinking of writing with us for the first time? Really looking forward to working with you!

Requirements for Submission: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY

Please read carefully!

• PDFs, GoogleDocs, and LaTeX files are the only formats that will be accepted for submission
  • If you do submit as a PDF, submitting the raw non-PDF file along with it is often helpful for us
  • If you used Overleaf, directly sharing the Overleaf project link with us is also very helpful in us getting your article reviewed and formatted quickly
• Submissions require the following:
  • A Title
  • A Subtitle
  • Author name (How you want to be credited)
  • An introduction to your article (250-800 characters would be ideal)
  • The article (roughly two pages minimum please)
  • Please name the file that you send: "LanguageName AuthorName" (it helps us immensely to keep things organized!)
• All submissions must be emailed to [email protected]
• You retain full copyright over your work and will be fully credited under the author name you provide.
• We will be proofreading and workshopping articles! Every submitted article will be reviewed after it is received, and you will receive an email back from a member of our Team with comments, suggestions, and fixes to make the articles the best they can be : )
  • Note: Submitting early does not necessarily mean your article will be workshopped more quickly; please allow 1-3 weeks after submission for us to get back to you!
• If you choose to do your article in LaTeX, please take a look at this template. To use the template, just click on Menu in the upper left hand corner, and then Copy Project, which allow you to edit your own copy of the template
• Please see the previous issues (linked at the top here) for examples of articles and formatting if you'd like a better idea of what kind of content we are looking for!
• We compiled a list of glossing abbreviations. For our sanity, please try to align your glosses to these abbreviations. If you need to use additional ones (particularly if you are submitting via LaTeX), please include the \baabbrevs addition at the top of your article’s code so I can easily slot it in.
• DEADLINE: ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 11:59 PM EST, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 2025! Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

If there are any questions at all about submissions, please do not hesitate to comment here and a member of our Team will answer as soon as possible.

Questions?

Please feel free to comment below with any questions or comments!

Have fun, and we're greatly looking forward to submissions!

Cheers!

Issue #01: Phonology was published in April 2021.

Issue #02: Verbal Constructions was published in July 2021.

Issue #03: Noun Constructions was published in October 2021.

Issue #04: Lexicon was published in January 2022.

Issue #05: Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers was published in April 2022.

Issue #06: Writing Systems was published in August 2022.

Issue #07: Conlanging Methodology was published in November 2022.

Issue #08: Supra was published in January 2023.

Issue #09: Dependent Clauses was published in April 2023.

Issue #10: Phonology II was published in July 2023.

Issue #11: Diachronics was published in October 2023.

Issue #12: Supra II was published in January 2024.

Issue #13: Pronoun Systems was published in April 2024.

Issue #14: Prose & Poetry was published in August 2024.

Issue #15: Verbal Constructions II was published in November 2024.