
Conlangery #27: Irregularity
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The Importance of Historical Changes in Language
If you do not have a perfectly symmetrical sound system that also opens up the possibility for things that look awfully irregular, but are still completely predictable. And that can be done by taking into account the history, the idea of you lost P somehow. I did a sort of a weird thing with Iruyo, with the Janet of Marker. That might be an example of how you could throw in random historical things in it. Sure. It might have created something stupid. Well, no, I think that's defensible. But I still think it's possible if you don't want to go through the process of creating entire proto-laying is you can have a sketch, at
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