Re: Kele: An Idea for Participatory Language Creation

David Peterson wrote:
> (1) When creating a language from the wordlist, you can't make *new*
> words.  By this I mean you can't come up with an entirely new base
> based on the phonology of Kele.  So, on my wordlist, there's no word
> for, I don't know, "folder".  You can't create the form "ipolokanasa"
> and say that that is the word for "folder"; that's not how th is
> intended to work.  The way you create words is by combining the words
> from the word list in various ways.  You can add sound changes, and
> turn some of the words into prefixes and suffixes (provided there's a
> semantic reason for doing so), and use reduplication, but you can't
> add completely new forms, or completely new affixes (or do something
> like ablaut, unless it's an actual sound change).  (Note: You don't
> have to use all the words.)
Interesting idea!  So, how "drastic" are we allowed to make the
changes?  Like, I can see some rather dramatic sound changes that could
cut down quite a few words, and perhaps create a heavily agglutinating
or fusional language.

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