Re: Languages

Elliott Lash wrote:
>    1995 A whole gamut of languages supposedly derived from a common language,
> though the sound changes were more codelike than actual phonetic changes.
> (ie.  /b/ became /t/ blah blah) (what was I thinking!)
Having read about consonant mutations in the Celtic langs, I decided to
make a conlang with mutations, but, not knowing much about them, I had
things like p->t, t->k, k->p, and one where voiced and unvoiced
consonants swapped, so that /p/ became /b/, while /b/ became /p/!  I
abandoned it as it was too hard to recognize words, since all words
began with CV- and ended with -VC, and both the first and last
consonants and the first and last vowels could be changed!

>    1995-1997 Thousands and Thousands of  what I like to call "tests" (I can't
> even remember them)
I had maybe a half dozen or so like that before I started on Uatakassí.

> Now the language has around 1500 words
Impressive!  I only have 407 roots and 620 words.

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