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The original inspiration was to "reverse engineer" the reconstruction of Indo-European from its daughter languages—which felt like an amazing new idea at the time, but which I now know as one of the most common sorts of conlang. I had actually attempted this a couple times before ('''ðɛ̃ʃwa ɛ̃nɛ̃nõta''', "'''Indo-Tonal'''), but never with the depth of knowledge I had acquired from my graduate-level Historical Linguistics classes. | The original inspiration was to "reverse engineer" the reconstruction of Indo-European from its daughter languages—which felt like an amazing new idea at the time, but which I now know as one of the most common sorts of conlang. I had actually attempted this a couple times before ('''ðɛ̃ʃwa ɛ̃nɛ̃nõta''', "'''Indo-Tonal'''), but never with the depth of knowledge I had acquired from my graduate-level Historical Linguistics classes. | ||
Like most of my conlangs, it draws much inspiration from the classical languages, but has broader influence from the rest of the Indo-European family. The three-vowel system was at least partially | Like most of my conlangs, it draws much inspiration from the classical languages, but has broader influence from the rest of the Indo-European family. The declension system was clearly modeled on Gothic, and the three-vowel system was at least partially influenced by Sanskrit's propensity for the phoneme /a/. The lack of voiced stops, on the other hand, was apparently inspired by Etruscan. | ||
==== Involvement of other conlangers ==== | ==== Involvement of other conlangers ==== | ||