Tag: conlang year
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Day 39: February 8, 2024
Goal: Explore options for word order and syntactic alignment Note: Decide whether you want more head-initial or head-final strategies. Tip: Word order is often defined in nominative-accusative terms. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try It’s time to move on to decisions about grammar! The first major decision I’m presenting to you is in two parts because these two…
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Day 38: February 7, 2024
Goal: Start your official dictionary Note: For every proto-form, provide its modern form and definition. Tip: Other info is helpful, too: lexical category, IPA, notes. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share You may have already started working on your dictionary. If that’s the case, today is a good day to double check your work and make sure all…
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Day 37: February 6, 2024
Goal: Explore Romanization strategies Note: A Romanization strategy is separate from an orthography. Tip: You may choose to stick with IPA (at least for now). Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Romanizing your language means using the Roman alphabet to present the forms of your language. The major reason many conlangers consider a Romanization strategy is because it…
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Day 36: February 5, 2024
Goal: Write a section on phonotactics for modern forms Note: Provide IPA charts to reflect the sounds in the modern forms. Tip: Update this info every time you tweak your sound changes. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share In yesterday’s prompt, I provided this basic template you might follow for documenting your language’s sound information. Today’s prompt expands…
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Week 6: A Preview
Day 36, February 5 Goal: Write a section on phonotactics for modern forms Note: Provide IPA charts to reflect the sounds in the modern forms. Tip: Update this info every time you tweak your sound changes. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Day 37, February 6 Goal: Explore Romanization strategies Note: A Romanization strategy is separate from an…
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Day 35: February 4, 2024
Goal: Solidify your list of ordered sound changes Note: Document these sound changes and keep them with your sound inventory notes. Tip: Using a tool like Lexurgy can help you quickly test sound changes on future forms. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Today’s focus is a culmination of the last two weeks of work you’ve put into…
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Day 34: February 3, 2024
Goal: Try compounding forms and test again Note: Sometimes sound changes are most noticeable in compound and affixed forms. Tip: These are not actual compounds yet—they are just for testing purposes. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try This is the last prompt I’ll give you for testing sound changes. (At least, for now it will be. Goodness knows…
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Day 33: February 2, 2024
Goal: Create five more animate nouns to test sound changes Note: If you want to create more forms, keep a running list of potential proto-forms not yet assigned to meanings. Tip: Really focus on creating forms that introduce sounds in new positions to test your sound changes. Work focus: Create/Make/List Now that you have selected…
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Day 32: February 1, 2024
Goal: Test your sound changes as a package Note: Sound changes affect language in an orderly fashion. Tip: Solidifying the order now will save you from headaches later. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try Yesterday I mentioned that you should select an order for your sound changes because, when sound changes apply to languages, they apply in a…
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Day 31: January 31, 2024
Goal: Organize notes and select sound changes Note: There is no “correct” number of sound changes you need to select for your language. Tip: You can always return to your sound changes later and add to them as you expand the language. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Whatever day it happens to be when you reach this…