Quoting Sai Emrys <sai@...>:
> Salutations, and welcome to the (speaking part of the) list. :-)
>
> On Jan 27, 2008 9:50 AM, Parker Glynn-Adey <parkerglynnadey@...> wrote:
> > -Why do most people start their work on a language with their phonology?
>
> Simply, because it allows people to start making words.
>
> The usual route is approx: phonetics -> phonology -> phonotactics ->
> nonce words -> morphology -> syntax -> pragmatics. And orthography
> somewhere in parallel.
I've always begun with a few words, and used them as a starting point to build
the phonology.
Andreas