Diachronic Drafting Game Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-08 | Miles leads a game where friends and players are drafting and choosing different means to evolve a given proto-lang. By the end of the game, each player will part with a daughter language, sharing all the laughs and differences among the sisters along the way!patreon.com/user?u=112286526&utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkDirections and Starting Materials: docs.google.com/document/d/1uj8X0hG_OjL5hmG35V1XRDHwpFrf6ldJI37rZcnqOhs/edit?usp=sharingLexurgy Files: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XvvMHnJZuwRGumL2dGgQzyJBKTmgcAK0?usp=drive_link
LHAB S4E05: Pronouns and Person Marking Planning Lets Have a Bouba 2025-11-18 | In this stream Jake and Miles develop the pronominal system and work out how to make person marking work in their VOS system.
LHAB S4 Solo Bouba 1: Translation Work with Miles Lets Have a Bouba 2025-11-12 | In this stream Miles starts working on a translation of one of Aesop's fables.
LHAB S4E04: Grammar Time! Lets Have a Bouba 2025-11-05 | This week we start working more explicitly on the grammar of the proto-language which will help us decide how much to shift before the languages of the family spilt across the two islands.
LHAB S4E03: Stressing the Mihirung Tamers (No Mihirungs Harmed) Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-29 | This week we are adding our stress rules into the equation and carrrying on with phonology.
LHAB S4E02: More Places of Articulation! More Clusters Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-22 | This week Jake and Miles deal with the results of the poll, adding the last touches to the basic inventory of the proto-language and settle on how to make the clusters people want.
2025 YouTube Conlang Relay: Leg 20 - Kxestu Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-20 | Welcome back to LHAB!This is the second of two videos LHAB are presenting as part of the 2025 YouTube relay.To watch from the start, check out the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXs3XQOKPw5SlbUo86xnEZFzUseFZVmQqAnd to watch the next video, go to Agma's video here: youtu.be/oKByQV2Os-Y?si=xFwnHnROL2-LLMDuParticipants: @conlangery @wrenisprobablyb0red @levunalangs @Amaiguri @simulanger @Biblaridion at @BibsWorkshop @MadelineJamesWorldbuilds @babelingua @zzineohp @dangswan @RheaDawnLanguage @getoutofZEWEI @TrueSchwar Miles of @LetsHaveaBouba @eiran_o_ddwywent @LoganKearsley @humanteneleven Ætérnal of @AgmaSchwa @iloivar Jake of @LetsHaveaBouba @AgmaSchwa @SpaceDirt_
2025 YouTube Conlang Relay: Leg 14 - Nasibómmó Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-20 | This is the first of two videos LHAB are presenting as part of the 2025 YouTube relay.To watch from the start, check out the playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXs3XQOKPw5SlbUo86xnEZFzUseFZVmQqAnd to watch the next video, go to Eiran's video here: youtu.be/lGOK10U3cSQ?si=0fS6nXgyTCd-LOP4Participants: @conlangery @wrenisprobablyb0red @levunalangs @Amaiguri @simulanger @Biblaridion at @BibsWorkshop @MadelineJamesWorldbuilds @babelingua @zzineohp @dangswan @RheaDawnLanguage @getoutofZEWEI @TrueSchwar Miles of @LetsHaveaBouba @eiran_o_ddwywent @LoganKearsley @humanteneleven Ætérnal of @AgmaSchwa @iloivar Jake of @LetsHaveaBouba @AgmaSchwa @SpaceDirt_
LHAB S4E01: Mihirungs and Phonemes Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-15 | It's a new beginning here at LHAB! Let's settle into a new project in a quite different biome with some new proto-language phonemes (coronal stops! imagine!). Join us and help decide where things go in a wonderful world filled with birds, monotremes and who knows what else.
LHAB S3E31: Comparisons Lets Have a Bouba 2025-10-01 | After a week away Jake and Miles are back with Bokuz, finishing up some descriptions and getting into the juicy details such as comparisons.
LHAB S3E30: Scripting with Jonathan Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-17 | Jonathan of @levunalangs is back on the channel! This time Jake and Jonathan are looking at the form of the Bza script which did not get made into a font to see how we can apply it to the Bokuz language.
LHAB S3E29: Script Prep. For Real This Time. Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-12 | In this episode Miles and Jake prepare for a week without Miles and the start of the Bokuz script, based on the groundwork from N'asibómmó and the Bza proto-language.
The Biogeography of Odalu with Biblaridion Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-08 | As part of Madeline James' Worldbuilding Festival Let's Have a Bouba and Biblaridion are getting together to talk about an area of the Bouba-verse which so far has been only covered a little: the southern archipelago.The key idea we have for the archipelago depends on its two largest islands, Odalu and Ornnalollu. Odalu will be the site of some interesting bird-taming events, and Ornalollu the location for the transformation of these birds into the heart of a new way of life in the highlands.Festival playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=ueIfdv-uxck&list=PLn7WXgrNpwt-ffjnrZPJsR5tSNVboZRpSFestival webpage: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-festival
Conlang Intention Setting Part 2 Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-07 | After some technical issues, we were back here!patreon.com/user?u=112286526&utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkFestival playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=ueIfdv-uxck&list=PLn7WXgrNpwt-ffjnrZPJsR5tSNVboZRpSFestival webpage: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-festival
Conlang Intention Setting Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-06 | Join Miles as he leads you through the first few steps of starting a conlang! We'll first set some goals and parameters for the language and the speakers and then construct a phonology with phonotactics and a few steps to the evolution of this newly constructed language. This stream is geared for beginner or intermediate conlangers wishing to know more about the diachronic method or if you are a starter and scrapper conlanger, like Miles can be! patreon.com/user?u=112286526&utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkFestival playlist: youtube.com/watch?v=ueIfdv-uxck&list=PLn7WXgrNpwt-ffjnrZPJsR5tSNVboZRpSFestival webpage: madelinejameswrites.com/worldbuilding-festival
LHAB S3E28: Loose Ends and Script Preparation Lets Have a Bouba 2025-09-03 | It's going to be a little bit of a mix of everything this week - join us as we get ready to tie up one of the loose ends of Bokuz and think about some stuff for the script.
LHAB S3E27: Content Questions and Relative Clauses Lets Have a Bouba 2025-08-27 | This week we are going to follow our poll to get relative clauses in place and work out what we are doing with content questions.
LHAB S3E26: Questions in Bokuz Lets Have a Bouba 2025-08-20 | We're getting polar this week, and we don't mean North. We are going to enact the will of the people and get polar questions done and then work out what we are doing about all the other stuff we have to do to get this bit of the language tied up with a bow.patreon.com/user?u=112286526&utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
LHAB S3E25: Creation of Negation Grammaticalisation in Bokuz Lets Have a Bouba 2025-08-13 | We're back back back back back again with Bokuz, the language of our sedentary cold steppe dwellers. This time we're getting negative, returning to the topic of negation from sources other than our negative copula (because ooooh she's different). We probably will end up having a poll on this (check the patreon link below) and go into many tangents, spirals and all manner of fun things. Come and say hi on this wild ride.patreon.com/user?u=112286526&utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Capybaran with Jake and Jonathan E2 Lets Have a Bouba 2025-08-05 | Let's get back to our capybara language!🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out StreamYard and get $10 discount! 😍 streamyard.com/pal/d/4816046384873472
Capybaran with Jake and Jonathan: E1 - A Return to the Amazon, Almost Lets Have a Bouba 2025-07-30 | This week while Miles is away, we have friend of the channel and excellent conlanger, font maker and musician Jonathan of @levunalangs on to talk about a project which began in 2023 - Capybaran.This week we will be going back to the previous document and deciding the path ahead, so join us to help decide the fate of Capybaran and where we go next with it.
More Toponymy from the Bird Tamers: A Final Call Lets Have a Bouba 2025-07-23 | This week we should finally have a name for the home island of the bird tamers, and ideally many of the other islands in the archipelago. Allophony will seen, said and sorted, and we say goodbye to Miles as he departs for lands anew.
Back to the Bird-Tamers: Allophony and Sandhi Lets Have a Bouba 2025-07-16 | The patrons have voted, and we are carrying on with the Bird Tamer's language. Last week we settled on a name for our big kiki island, currently known as Odalu or Javanalogue, and we will be moving on to fleshing out some of the phonetic interactions. Voicing? Frication? Rhotacization? It could all happen here at LHAB.
Making a Naming Language for the Bird-Tamer Archipelago Lets Have a Bouba 2025-07-09 | This week we are changing things up and making a naming language/language sketch - enough to name some islands.
wait wait wait Lets Have a Bouba 2025-05-29 | Friend of the channel and all around legend Jonathan of @levunalangs has produced from youtube.com/live/_An3q96EoEM the track of David's imagination: wait wait wait. Let's Have a Bouba continues to reach new heights.
Lets Have a Bouba Season 3 Ep. 18 Lets Have a Bouba 2025-05-21 | This week Jake and Miles are going to finally give the language a name!
A Second Solo Bouba with Jake Lets Have a Bouba 2025-05-14 | Miles is away, so we are returning to the wonderful world of Jonathan's drawings and fleshing out the vocabulary of N'asibómmó. Let's see what weird and wonderful things happen when Jake is left to their own devices.
Lets Have a Bouba Season 3 Episode 17 Lets Have a Bouba 2025-05-07 | Watch us create a new addition to the Tundra languages of the Bouba-verse.
Lets Have a Relay: Jakes Ring Lets Have a Bouba 2025-03-16 | The second half of the second let's have a relay, this time we see David fulfil his promise to use Megdevi, and see if this time the structure of the quiz will unfurl.Check out (some) of the participants here:Nat - @Zeyrreston David - @LangTimeStudio George - @conlangery
Lets Have a Relay: Jessies Ring Lets Have a Bouba 2025-03-03 | You can check some out the folks in this ring here:Jessie - @LangTimeStudio Logan - @LoganKearsley Jonathan - @levunalangs Biblaridion - @Biblaridion
Bouba Babble 11: The Beginning of the End of the Script Lets Have a Bouba 2025-02-27 | This month Jake and Miles are joined by Jonathan to finish up the glyphs which will make the script for our *still* unnamed language, up to this point referred to as Bza. There's minimal math and less-than-skillfully edited technical issues, but it's nice to see us get to the end of the script in time for Lexember.
Lets Have a Bouba Season 3 Episode 8 Lets Have a Bouba 2025-02-26 | In this episode we worked out our person/tense/mood paradigm and got thinking about demonstratives.
