Conlanging 2024-05-18
All right, before I get into the details of what I'm planning, I'm just going to ask that everyone ignore the degree of scope creep that I've inflicted on this project. All right? All right.
So, here's what I've worked out so far during my attempts to create basically an alternative version of an Indo-European language with a different vocabulary of roots:
- Need to work out ablaut before applying other sound changes.
- Need to determine accent before applying ablaut.
- Because my goal is a centum language, I can't totally nail down the roots unless I also do derivations for a satem language.
- (This perhaps could be avoided by attempting to make an alternative version of Luwian or certain other Anatolian languages, but, I'm not doing that. (Right now.))
- My original plan was to use Farsi for that purpose, but I'm having trouble tracking down sets of sound changes in general that go into as much detail as Wikipedia goes into on Proto-Germanic. I may need to just look harder.
- On the other hand, I could just learn the tools with Proto-Germanic, and then try to do things based on Vibes for the rest of it.
At this point, it makes sense to try to put together the basic rules, but it also makes sense to try to get more of a handle on derivational morphology, so I have more idea of what can cause the accent to move around.
I'll see what I'm up for in this area after I get some more sleep.
Good night.