Conlanging 2024-05-11

By Max Woerner Chase

Okay, let's see what I've learned so far. There are sort of two sides to learning Lexurgy.

There's actually writing the rules, which takes skill working with groups, feature matrices, etc.

And there's figuring out how I want to wire the word lists together. That gets into stuff like how I want to specify things in the configuration files for build systems (tup, Ninja, ... Make...), and what I want to track in version control (Pijul, Mercurial, ... not saying the name of the popular one...).

I can get a better idea of what to do for the former by studying stuff like the Index Diachronica, though I wouldn't mind finding an alternative, because some of the very early sound changes for Proto-Indo-European look to me like they're written against a reconstructed phoneme inventory different that the one I want to go for.

Anyway, that's all going to take some more thought, and I want to wind down for tonight.

Good night.