Re: SV: Re: Some conlang questions

>I'm starting with a classical language then working on dialects from that.
>The classical language is based on a proto-language. Somewhere on the net
>there's (at least one) place where the vowels of Indo-European are
reflected
>in its branches. I need to find that, because I wanna know myself....
how would one go about making up dialects?  i know that dialects are
phonetic variations (?). Would one just modify the sounds a little bit, or
is there more to a dialect than that? i think that constructing some sort
of world and history of the world would be good for giving a backbone to a
conlang.  it doesn't even have to be fantasy.  richard kennaway's page has
many useful links.  what do you think about constructing worlds?


---a.i

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I do not consider myself an expert, but I can answer this question anyway, I
think. A dialect is a variation of a language that hasn't diverged enough to be
called a language. The easiest way to make a dialect is to make a smaller
amount of sound changes, and maybe even take in some loan words from a
neighboring language. That would give the dialect its own flavor.

Somebody has probably answered this question already, but I just wanted to be helpful. =)


Micke

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