Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?

nicole.eap@snet.net writes:
>This makes me curious, do people on the list (who work on more than one
>conlang) find that most of their conlangs are similar to each other?  I
>don't mean in obvious ways, but maybe you really like /p/ and all of you
>languages have it (or you really dislike it and none of them have it),
>or maybe they all have similar word orders, or are all
>isolating/agglutinating/analytic/polysynthetic etc?  I
Well, all of my languages with concultures are very similar. Mostly
because I just like Austronesian style languages, and I like my cultures
to be in that area. I also have a lot of resources on Tagalog, which
Magandang is pretty much a relex of that, and Saalangal is similar in
grammar to Tagalog, but i'm throwing in bits that are different (like my
tense/focus verb system).

I also like the sounds of  Tagalog, and other Philippine languages, so
both of my Austronesian style languages sound similar. I love the sound of
"ng" at the beginning and ends of words, as well as vowels close to each
other said separately, like in the word "Saalangal" (Sa-a-la-ngal). I also
like VSO word order.

However, not all of my conlangs are similar. My personal one Tilon Nevo is
much different, and more close to the way English does things, with some
alterations. It's also my way to experiment with different things from
various languages, but not real exotic stuff. The word order for it is SVO.


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