Re: How to start to make a language?

Carlos Reyes sekalge:
>I'm going to start Mäpnéet o Mapnêt. But I have not any knowledge of
phonetic and grammar.

www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/ipa/full will give you most of the sounds a human can
pronounce. www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/x-sampa.htm will tell you how to
represent these sounds on a computer without special fonts.

As for grammar, just ask yourself, ever and always, "How do the languages
I know deal with this situation? How should I do this?" That's good for a
start. Also look at www.zompist.com/kit.html and
gareis.free.fr/guide.html for more information on grammar and a bit on
phonology. Pablo Flores has a website with a conlanging guide, as well,
but I seem to have misplaced the url. Perhaps it's in my boot. Or the
couch. Oh, wait...is it in my other boot? Ach, cud!

Laimes,
Wright.

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"Through not observing the thoughts of another a man is seldom unhappy,
but he who does not observe the movements of his own mind must of
necessity be unhappy."
--Marcus Aurelius

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