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==A whole new world: creating your own PIE-derived language== | ==A whole new world: creating your own PIE-derived language== | ||
If you find all the romlangs, germlangs, slavlangs, sinolangs, celtlangs a bit too constraining, the option of making up your own base on which to experiment further on is a safe bet! This chapter assumes a basic understanding of concepts such as [[wiki:phoneme|phoneme]], [[wiki:allophone|allophone]], [[wiki:Ablaut|ablaut]], [[wiki:Word order|word order]], and so on. | If you find all the romlangs, germlangs, slavlangs, sinolangs, celtlangs a bit too constraining, the option of making up your own base on which to experiment further on is a safe bet! The reasons for engaging in diachronic conlanging with PIE as point of origin are many, just like the results. | ||
This chapter assumes a basic understanding of concepts such as [[wiki:phoneme|phoneme]], [[wiki:allophone|allophone]], [[wiki:Ablaut|ablaut]], [[wiki:Word order|word order]], and so on. | |||
===The processes of change and their effects=== | ===The processes of change and their effects=== | ||
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===Forging a phonology=== | ===Forging a phonology=== | ||
Proto-Indo-European is commonly accepted to have had the following vowel and consonant inventory | |||
You have many options available in the treatment of the vowels and consonants; already in Proto-Indo-European we discern a trend towards either engaging in af/fricativisation or not of the 'palatovelars'. This important isogloss divides Indo-European into two broad swaths: Centum and Satem. Cf. with the reconstructed PIE [[wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ḱm̥tóm#Proto-Indo-European|*(d)ḱm̥tóm]]. | |||
===Melting morphology=== | ===Melting morphology=== | ||
===Smithing smooth sentences syntactically=== | |||
=== | ===Loaning lexica - word borrowing between PIE dialects=== | ||
==Creating a descendant of a modern language chapter== | ==Creating a descendant of a modern language chapter== | ||