Re: creating words (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)

JS Bangs wrote:
> Emoi de topw. Working "forwards" is rather more boring and less fun that
> doing things "horizontally" or backwards as you mentioned. Even when I
> work forwards, however, I don't feel the need to make the protolang
> particularly complete. All I have for PY is a list of roots, a vague idea
> of morphology and the barest hint of syntax. Having so *little* material
> actually helps make the daughter languages interesting--in order to have
> anything remotely complete, I have to elaborate a lot, and I can always be
> sure to elaborate in a different direction than the other existing langs.
I've started work on Proto-Northern, a language spoken several millennia
prior to Classical Uatakassi.  As the name implies, this family's spoken
in the north, and will be the ancestor of the Blafu and Kalpanian
languages (along with many other minor langs).  Proto-Northern was
largely isolating, with an SVO word order, and simple
syllable-structure.  I'll leave it largely incomplete, like with your
PY, and then elaborate it into new languages.

> Heh. I actually am fairly consistent in using native terms--except,
> ironically, for Yivrian, my original conlang!
I generally use a hodgepodge of native names, kassified names, and
anglified names (and sometimes anglifications of Kassifications of
native names!)

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