For me, yes, an example I could use is transforming a generic language using an alphabet, formed using Turkish as the base, and evolving it based on Chinese influences and attempting to adopt logographic styles

This made me theorise on how Chinese works and the absolute role of context, where I could apply it and what not

But what about you?

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    15 days ago

    100% yes. A few things I’ve learned with conlanging:

    • how information density works in practice
    • why there’s no such thing as a fusional equivalent for case stacking
    • how vertical vowel systems appear
    • what exactly natural languages like Kaingang are doing with nasal allophony; e.g. /d/ as [d n͜d d͜n d]
    • how consonants affect your pitch in a non-tonal language, and how to use it for tonogenesis