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

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I've several times attempted to do language families the right way around, but
> it has always failed because it requires making the proto-language
> vaguely "complete" first, whereas my real interest is always in the daughter
> languages.
I think you can get away with leaving it incomplete.  Come up with a
basic phonoloyg, some gramatical suffixes (or have the protolang be
isolating, depending on the present lang), and vocab.  Syntax, et al.
can be pretty much ignored, except for some basic issues like
adjective-noun order (for determining compound words), since syntax
tends to be pretty changeable over time.

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