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Creating a language
Want to create a language? It can take a lot of work to make it presentable, but the results can be amazing! To make your own decide which sounds you want, create words and hold it all together with a grammar (though not necessarily in that order). Use the input text below to start the creation of your language. break=no preload=Template:NewLang buttonlabel=Start creating your own language now! See also: Conlinguistics Wiki
 * 1) Decide the phonology (the sounds of the language)
 * 2) Which sounds can change meaning? In English /b/ and /p/ do (e.g. "bat" and "pat") but in Korean /p/ and /ph/ do (e.g. /put/ v /phut/) yet /b/ and /p/ do not.
 * 3) Which sounds correspond to the same meaning? Many perceive /ðə/ ("the") and /d ə/ ("de") or /friː/ ("free") and /θriː/ ("three") as the same when it comes to pronounciation.
 * 4) Decide on phonotactics: which consonants go together and which can't? In English you can say "Spanish," but in Spanish the letter s cannot begin a word when followed by a consonant so it would become "Espanish." Can you have consonants at the end of syllables? Not in Hawai'ian.
 * 5) Construct a grammar: how is it all put together in a flow? (This can be done at the end)
 * 6) Is it agglutinating, isolating, fusional or polysynthetic?
 * 7) If not isolating, what is its morphosyntactic alignment?
 * 8) Is it heavily inflected?
 * 9) Are verbs conjugated?
 * 10) Do the nouns decline?
 * 11) Are there different voices, moods, aspects and tenses? Are there more than past, present and future?
 * 12) Does it have nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, particles, articles et cetera?
 * 13) Create words and/or roots
 * 14) If you're also creating a conculture, think of what's important to them. There will probably be many words about it.
 * 15) How are roots derived? Semitic languages get the word for "read" from "blood."
 * 16) How are things expressed? (The English "I am eating" and "I eat" are expressed in the same way in Spanish and Swedish)