I agree with you on this.

We have decided on a phonology and an orthography, but what about phonotactics? I think we need to decide what syllable structures are allowed and what sounds are allowed to appear next to each other before we get too carried away with vocabulary.

A mix that leans toward the latter? (so the latter, but it's contracted somehow so words don't get impossibly long)

second question (assuming we're covering at least like two or three different features with verb affixes) - fusional or agglutinative? (basically, do we want to have e.g. one affix that means third person singular indicative past tense, or do we accomplish this by stapling together separate affixes that mean one of those things each)

i would strongly prefer the latter

I definitely think that the amount of helping/modal verbs in English is excessive and that doing as much as we can through endings is ideal. However, simplicity is always the goal, so we may take whatever measures necessary to achieve ease and simplicity

imo the first question should be: which features do we want to represent by noun/verb endings and which do we want to represent by modal verbs/adverbs/etc

e.g. latin conveys person, number, tense, mood (indicative/subjunctive/imperative), and voice (active/passive) in its verb endings, while english conveys most of these via modal verbs ("will" etc)

i've started a dictionary in google sheets (i'm assuming this is a publicly viewable forum, so pm your email for edit access)

keeping it solely to content words and not functional words for now

just longer ([uː])

I've adopted Jo, but am keeping Ilor and the all-encompassing, personal, third person plural

I'm comfortable with having conjugation/declension to be done at the beginning/ends of words.

Some potential nominative forms (again with the same list + a couple more, sorry, I'm boring)


Word - beris
Earth - tarn
Father - pasi
Mother - mera
Son - idu
Daughter - ida
Food - suxa
Hair - seyo
Water - abez
Sand - selez
Dirt - mwelez

The endings are inconsistent, and I'm totally open to feedback and all