Re: conlang classification and productivity

David E Bell wrote:

> I never cease to be astounded by this kind of productivity.  I have been
> conlanging for over 40 years off and on and have succeeded in constructing
> exactly ONE conlang, amman iar.  I have been struggling for more than a
year
> now to get a second one off the ground, but it still only qualifies as a
> sketch, not yet worthy of being called a conlang.  How do you guys do
it???

Well, I tend to create language *families* rather than separate languages. I
also like everything to be internally coherent; the God.o language came
about because I wanted a decent etymology for "crasa", the Aredos word for
rose, so I came up with God.o, which is related to Kansú and only has eleven
words: 1-10 and r.asi, the word for "rose". It's a bit like Elamite to
Kansú's Sumerian.

Seeing as Cendos is supposed to be analogous to Europe, I came up with
parallel languages, with Aredos as "Latin" and its daughter languages as the
Romance family. Kansú is Sanskrit/Sumerian, Bulyth is Romany and Nashauban
is Russian/Japanese.

Dan, who has far too much time on his hands...


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