u/Whole_Instance_4276

I want to work on having some communication in the history of my fictional speakers with other fictional speakers of mine, so I want to hear your conlang’s method of doing it!

I get the mechanism and that other Germanic languages do this, but that was an ariel feature that developed later and by that time I feel like English wasn’t influenced nearly as much by other Germanic languages (being spoken on an island and it was more influenced by French at that point too)

I was curious because, for me, deciding how to romanize the phonemes in my lang is something that takes some actual time for me to decide. I love theming my romanization to fit the conlang it’s romanizing (like using c instead of k for Latin-inspired langs, or whether to use a macron, acute, circumflex, or doubled letters to write long vowels)

And I can easily see why someone wouldn’t put much thought into it at all and just use the most obvious or sensible characters.

Artemis for the Moon, The Martian for Mars, and Project Hail Mary for Venus.

Probably unintentionally but I just found that a bit funny XD

What I mean by this is the phase after you’ve formed all the sounds, phonotactics, and grammar. After this, it’s pretty much just working on coining words. Obviously you may want to revise those previous aspects but, in general, you’re done with the core of the language and just have to build out vocab (this phase also comes before evolving your language if it’s naturalistic, but that’s not really relevant to the question)

I ask this because normally my conlangs tend to be very fusional and have a lot of affixation. But I decided I wanted to work on a analytical conlang that uses word order and a handful of auxiliary words to handle the things my affixes normally would.

And I got to the word coining phase way quicker than I normally do. I suppose this makes sense, but it makes it feel kind of cheaper. Like normally it takes a few weeks of passive work to get all the grammar stuff sorted out, sometimes longer. But for this lang it took less than a week.

So how long is normal for you to get to this part of language creation?

The book version is so different! When Grace refuses, Stratt is so cold. I felt absolutely sickened as she started listing off how Grace was a coward, how the reason he was kept was for this express purpose.

It really did leave a bitter a taste in my mouth that the movie most definitely did not do, Andy Weir really is a fantastic writer!

I was curious about this because I can’t find much on it and I want to turn my /z/‘s into a more interesting sound

I’m very curious about this because I like to take a lot of inspiration from natlangs and have to find a balance between inspiration and making the conlang feel, to me, like “my own”.

And if you do take a lot of inspiration, what natlangs do you like to take from? For me, I love Proto-Germanic phonology