#ConlangApril hosted by @miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.social 1. Introduce your conlang. Who speaks it? 2. Purpose. Everyday? Lingua franca? Ceremonial? Magical? 3. Dialects and language family 4. Sources of inspiration? A priori or a posteriori? 5. Phonemic inventory. The sounds or gestures of your conlang. 6. Orthography. Script or transcription. 7. Weekly prompt: fog 8. Phonotactics 9. Allophonic variation and sandhi 10. Morphology. Analytic or synthetic? 11. Alignment. Nominative-accusative? Ergative-absolutive? 12. Tenses and aspects. How does your language conceive of time? 13. Word order 14. Weekly prompt: horn 15. Prosody 16. Questions, negations, orders 17. Dependent clauses 18. Formality and registers 19. Language evolution. Sound/gesture changes and semantic drift. 20. Common expressions 21. Weekly prompt: play 22. Borrowings from other languages 23. Words formed by mimicry (e.g. onomatopoeias) 24. Cultural influence/references 25. Taboos 26. Important texts or oral traditions 27. Individual speakers' idiolects 28. Weekly prompt: cut 29. Challenge: The North Wind and the Sun (translate as much as you can) – or free day! 30. Reflection
Hey fellow #writers and #conlangers! I hosted #ConlangNovember last year, and it's coming back, but as #ConlangApril! The prompt list, below, is mostly the same, but I made a few edits and changed the weekly prompts.
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