Re: A Lang family ...
| From: | Amber Adams <amber@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 31, 2001, 20:15 |
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The trick to sound change is to just think of what speakers will
do to your language. Here's a few random ideas. :)
Speak fast. Speak slow. Speak in a fake accent. Try holding
your nose. Try slurring things that should be clear, or saying
things clear that should be slurred. Take away some schwas, or
add them. Or turn them into other vowels, or turn the vowels
into schwas. Try aspirating or voicing something, or unaspirating
or unvoicing it. Turn a vowel + a nasal into a nasalized vowel,
or do it the other way. Turn one random sound into one other
random sound for no sane reason whatsoever, and see what effect
it has. And above all, have fun!
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 02:54:32PM -0400, Paul Sherrill wrote:
> > Is participation or least, observation by an utter newbie agreeable? It
> > sounds like a really interesting thing to do, but currently I only
> > understand about 10% of what is going on so, I don't know how much useful
> > input I would provide. :)
>
> That's basically my response, too. I'd love to participate in this, but I
> have very little experience with concultures and sound changes. Whenever I
> try to derive a conlang from a proto-lang, I end up with a set of arbitrary
> changes that somehow don't seem "real" to me.
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