User blog:Marek Szymonski/Yet Another Stupid Challenge!

Since we seem to be announcing our challenges ahead of time, I figured I'd go ahead and announce my idea for descendant lang challenge!

The challenge will be to derive a new conlang descended from one of a list of conlangs presented (we can vote on which langs have sufficient quality, completion and detail to be used. Don't nominatie any of your own languages, please. A language must receive two votes other than the nominator's in order to be proposed.) You must of course provide sound and grammatical changes as well as semantic shifts from the ancestor. Also, include some borrowings from the languages you did not derive your own lang from (I'd say at least 25 words from each language, this may change depending on how many languages end up in the final list.)  Once the submission date (whenever that ends up being) is reached, the victors will be announced by group vote.

The challenge will start whenever Kauf's germanic-lang and AK's collablang challenges end.

Please post suggestions for the ancestor languages in the comments, and also vote for proposals people have already made.

Edit: Since a large amount of high-quality complete languages on this wiki appear to be a posteriori, I'm changing the rules to allow them as descendant langs. However, please provide languages that are not painfully obvious in their ties to Earth langs to the point of unoriginality (or at least are not related to well-known mainstream languages. Romlangs in general probably won't be a good idea.)