Board Thread:Linguistics/@comment-4924435-20141231044420/@comment-25438171-20141231055320

Don't worry about it; I imagine most people don't have much of an idea. The only difference is that they haven't admitted it yet (and probably never will).

If you have any questions, just ask. The chat is a good place to do it (there are people there most of the time), but you can also post on an admin's talk page (AKsroa4a and Elector Dark ). The forums do also work, but people don't tend to look at them as often as other places.

As for your immediate needs, the BG Langauge Construction Kit could be of use. I can also suggest Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit (also available in book form). The second appears to involve less knowledge of linguistics, but I am not entirely sure. May I ask what you meant by 'many languages that have the same roots'?

As for the parts of speech, the following sentences should give you a rough idea (they aren't entirely accurate):

Adjectives are modifiers which describe nouns.

Adverbs are modifiers which describe verbs.

A noun is commonly defined as a word that is a person, place, or thing. This is a somewhere inaccurate description, as actions (e.g. "running" in "He liked running") and ideas (e.g. "love") can also be considered nouns.

A verb is a word that represents some form of action, occurrence, or state of being.

If you have access to a dictionary of Esperanto, words ending in -o are nouns, -a are adjectives, -i are verbs, and -e are adverbs. This is better than the above, but still isn't perfect (and it requires consist dictionary look-ups).

Hope this helps, and have fun conlanging!