Re: First post :)

En réponse à "Robert \"Neo\" Hill" <neovirus@...>:

>       Hi all, i am new here.
Welcome!

 I am 15, and have always created "codes" i
> thought were languages hehe. Lately (2-3 years) i have been working on
> the language of Neo Evish (Quiqw Cqwyu (i am also thinking of changing
> the name, as it is not based on Elves or for elves hehe)) very hard. It
> needs alot of work, but I am confident that it will turn out very mature
> in time.
>
Indeed. Conlanging, like anything creative, is 1% inspiration and 99%
transpiration :)) .

>      Anyway, lemmie get to business. What do you all think a language
> REALLY needs. I am only making a simple language for now, you know, kind
> of like a Dwarven language (stupidity reigns). I really just dont know
> where to start. Maybe a checklist? I would be very greatful to anyone
> who can help me in this area(s).
>        Good Bye, or as they say in Neo Elvish, Qwsqwl.
>                                    Robert Hill
>
Well, you first need the list of sounds that the people recognise, and the list
of rules that say how those sounds can interact (with the structure of the
vowel). That will help you prevent your words going in all directions and the
result looking like an ugly patchwork :)) . Then you need a morphology: what
parts of speech does the language recognise? How do nouns behave? (do they have
case, prepositions, postpositions, do they mark number - singular, dual,
plural, etc... -, gender, class?) How do verbs behave? (do they agree with
their subject, their object? do they change for person, number, tense, aspect?
Or do they stay invariable? And what are the marks for those things?) How do
adjectives behave? Like nouns? Like verbs? With their special way, unlike
either? What about adverbs? Pronouns? How do you make relative clauses,
subordinate clauses? What are the marks? When all that is answered, you still
need a syntax: what is the basic word order in the clause, the noun phrase,
between clauses? Do subordinate clauses have a different structure than
independent ones? Is word order important for grammatical distinctions (like
English distinguishes subject and object only by word order), or can word order
be changed, with or whithout change in emphasis? And well all this is done, you
need a lexicon!! :))

Of course, you needn't take those steps in the order I showed them. Everyone
has his/her own way. You just need to find yours.

Christophe.

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