Day 36, February 5
Goal: Write a section on phonotactics for modern forms
Note: Provide IPA charts to reflect the sounds in the modern forms.
Tip: Update this info every time you tweak your sound changes.
Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share
Day 37, February 6
Goal: Explore Romanization strategies
Note: A Romanization strategy is separate from an orthography.
Tip: You may choose to stick with IPA (at least for now).
Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try
Day 38, February 7
Goal: Start your official dictionary
Note: For every proto-form, provide its modern form and definition.
Tip: Other info is helpful, too: lexical category, IPA, notes.
Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share
Day 39, February 8
Goal: Explore options for word order and syntactic alignment
Note: Decide whether you want more head-initial or head-final strategies.
Tip: Word order is often defined in nominative-accusative terms.
Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try
Day 40, February 9
Goal: Select word order and syntactic alignment
Note: Create clause templates using current vocabulary.
Tip: Focus on the general structures. Specifics will come later!
Work focus: Organize/Plan/Structure
Day 41, February 10
Goal: Decide on a more synthetic or analytic approach
Note: This decision reflects how forms grammaticalize in your conlang.
Tip: Situate these decisions with your sound change timeline.
Work focus: Learn/Brainstorm/Try
Day 42, February 11
Goal: Start a basic introduction to your conlang’s grammar
Note: This may just be a sentence or two for now!
Tip: Keep these notes organized so you can easily reference them.
Work focus: Solidify/Write/Share