Monthly Archives: December 2010

Ways inflecting languages *could* turn into isolating languages

Posted on December 21, 2010 by matthewdeanmartin

Some of these are inspired by the answers to question I asked on the conlang mailing list: * Erosion (and all other forms mutation) of causes endings to drop off or for inflections to become identical to others. * Inflected … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons non-ND content for corpus building

Posted on December 19, 2010 by matthewdeanmartin

If nothing exciting was written in Greek or Latin, neither would have become very popular second languages in medieval Europe. A good way to kick start your language is to translate good material into your conlang. Public domain is a … Continue reading →

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Should Conlang Creators be Superstars?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by matthewdeanmartin

I was researching how many wikipedia articles exist for both a conlang creator and the conlang. (see end of article for list) It is uncommon for a conlang to become notable. It is uncommon for people to become notable. Lots … Continue reading →

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30 Day Conlang End of Month Wrap Up- We need more tools

Posted on December 3, 2010 by matthewdeanmartin

As usual I didn’t actually move the project forward most days of the month. In the time gaps I had, I could generate phonetic inventory, phonotactics, a dictionary, but not a grammar. I also wasn’t able to memorize the 500 … Continue reading →

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