Re: Similar Soundong Languages

Quoting Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...>:

> What do you need to have in a conlang so that it sounds like
> another existing natlang or conlang? One thing I know is that
> their phonology should be similar (consonants, vowels, word
> formation, etc.). What else is required?
Well, clearly the language that will sound *most* like that other
conlang will simply be a dialect of the same language.  In that
sense, the way you make it "sound like" that other language is
to use the same or similar lexicon with a few grammatical and
phonological changes.  But if you're assuming these two conlangs
are not "related", then the way you go about it is two-pronged:
they need to have the same or similar inventory of phonemes
*along with* the same or similar distribution of those phonemes,
as well as same or similar syllable structure.

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