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Conlanging thingiemajiggeridoo
So the challenge of Languary is to do one thing on your conlang each day in January with the goal of translating an entire sentence by the end of the month. It's geared mainly towards new conlang projects but what the heck! I missed Lexember and my grammar needs resuscitation, so here we go.
DAY ONE: Reorganize and collect my notes to assess what I actually have.
- I've got my alphabet (and a base writing system now, too, huzzah). Plotted it out on consonant and vowel charts, too, as well as pronunciation guidelines for the vowels.
- There's a note here about doubled consonants sounding the same as single and I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put it there... I guess that you could have doubled consonants? Probably as artifacts...?
- No diphthongs, no vowel combos, they're pronounced distinctly.
- I have a few positive/negative/neutral sound associations. Not sure why I went with that alignment; English has emotion and size associations, mostly, I think. I'll want to expand or elaborate on this before I start making more vocab.
- There are syllable and phoneme structure rules here but I have no memory of what I was thinking when I made them, so I need to reasses and possibly redo them. That'll be tomorrow's task.
- Word and sentence rules based on an agglutinating system. They're rigidly overcomplicated and a mess; I'm going to start from scratch here. That'll take at least a week.
- I have a small vocabulary based on the current grammatical system which I'll likely need to tweak dramatically once I finish redoing the grammar. That's for last.
DAY ONE: Reorganize and collect my notes to assess what I actually have.
- I've got my alphabet (and a base writing system now, too, huzzah). Plotted it out on consonant and vowel charts, too, as well as pronunciation guidelines for the vowels.
- There's a note here about doubled consonants sounding the same as single and I'm not sure what I was thinking when I put it there... I guess that you could have doubled consonants? Probably as artifacts...?
- No diphthongs, no vowel combos, they're pronounced distinctly.
- I have a few positive/negative/neutral sound associations. Not sure why I went with that alignment; English has emotion and size associations, mostly, I think. I'll want to expand or elaborate on this before I start making more vocab.
- There are syllable and phoneme structure rules here but I have no memory of what I was thinking when I made them, so I need to reasses and possibly redo them. That'll be tomorrow's task.
- Word and sentence rules based on an agglutinating system. They're rigidly overcomplicated and a mess; I'm going to start from scratch here. That'll take at least a week.
- I have a small vocabulary based on the current grammatical system which I'll likely need to tweak dramatically once I finish redoing the grammar. That's for last.
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-02 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)*thumbs up for day one*
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could it be that a double consonant is the same sound in long, unlike English, where ee and oo are different sounds from e and o?
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