Re: Conlang evolution

> I am interested in finding out how quickly conlangs usually change.
> Tolkien's Qenya (1920's) was unintelligible with Quenya (1930's).
> Sturnan speakers (speaking Sturnan now) could understand the original
> Sturnan, though original Sturnan speakers would need a short course
(two
> weeks would be enough) before they could understand modern Sturnan.
Very interesting, this question.  Yivríndil's eight or nine years old, I
think, but I know that Yiv-1994 has only its name and a handful of
lexical items in common with Yiv-2002.  The period from 1994-1999 was the
time of greatest change for my language, and witnessed many fundamental
reworkings, but since then the changes have mostly been a process of
filling in the details. Hiksi is only two, but it's changed so much that
texts from even a few months ago are completely out of date.  Such is
conlanging.


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
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