Re: A Lang family ...

Amber Adams wrote:
>
> 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!
This is great, Amber! You've given me some ideas for Ale (the first (and
curretly only) descendant of Mungayöd), as well.

> 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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