Tag: conlang
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Day 43: February 12, 2024
Goal: Explore options for noun classes Note: If you want noun classes, list potential options for lexical sources. Tip: For now, you can just list the lexical sources in their English equivalents. Work focus: Brainstorm/Learn/Try The next four days are focused on common ways nouns can be marked for grammatical information, whether that marking comes…
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Week 7: A Preview
Day 43, February 12 Goal: Explore options for noun classes Note: If you want noun classes, list potential options for lexical sources. Tip: For now, you can just list the lexical sources in their English equivalents. Work focus: Brainstorm/Learn/Try Day 44, February 13 Goal: Explore options for noun number Note: If you want to mark…
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Day 42: February 11, 2024
Goal: Start a basic introduction to your conlang’s grammar Note: This may just be a sentence or two for now! Tip: Keep these notes organized so you can easily reference them. Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share Formalize some of the decisions you’ve made about the basic foundation for your conlang’s grammatical structures by writing a basic grammar…
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Day 41: February 10, 2024
Goal: Decide on a more synthetic or analytic approach Note: This decision reflects how forms grammaticalize in your conlang. Tip: Situate these decisions with your sound change timeline. Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try The way units come together in a language’s grammar can be more analytic or more synthetic. In a more analytic system, each unit is…
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Day 40: February 9, 2024
Goal: Select word order and syntactic alignment Note: Create clause templates using current vocabulary. Tip: Focus on the general structures. Specifics will come later! Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure The first part of today’s prompt is to select the word order and syntactic alignment you want to use for your conlang. Once you do that, create some…
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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…