Re: How to start to make a language?

Christophe sekalge:
>Note that simplicity can lead to weirdity too: one of the reasons
Maggel's
>orthography is so strange and counter-intuitive is that I tried to map
90-odd
>phonemes to 17 letters, without any diacritic of any sort. This doesn't
go
>without some problems ;))) .
As I found when I mashed Tallefkeul into the Greek alphabet. I got a few
extra digraphs, to say the least, but I got rid of one, replacing it with
a different ambiguity: /y/ versus /j/. (Most of my digraphs are
ambiguous, especially those that involve vowels.)

>I'd add this one: for a first
>language, don't try to make too original a phonological inventory.
And make a small one, perhaps a Hawaiian clone (even if it's based on
Georgian). That's just what I recommend for simplicity's sake. Also,
don't be afraid to change the inventory; just be aware that doing so
might take a lot of work.

Laimes,
Wright.

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