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Conlangery #27: Irregularity

Conlangery Podcast

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The Unnatural Way to Produce Natural Languages

Esperanto has a very regular derivational system for it where you have one element that defines like the whether it's question word or negative word. Well okay then you can say this is not the way to do it but it might not if you want a naturalistic language anyway. Sure that chart is is full of extremely useful vocabulary just yeah Esperanto's way of producing it is highly unnatural.

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