Hi, So first post here.
I've picked an inventory of phonemes, have a general idea of how I want to do grammar, and even have a rough idea of how I want to develop this language.
Right now I am having trouble finding resources explain, or answering my last big puzzle and that is how to take words from a proto-language and shift them into the sounds that this intended conlang has. I'm running from Proto-Celtic and looking to import vocabulary from proto-celtic but am unsure if there are rules or how I should have sounds shift from proto-Celtic to the ones my conlang has.
Having trouble building vocabulary.
Re: Having trouble building vocabulary.
You'd probably want to find historical grammars of Welsh and Gaelic in order to see how PrCelt turned eventually into Old Welsh and Old Irish respectively. (Unfortunately, I don't know any names off hand!)Fitheach wrote:Hi, So first post here.
I've picked an inventory of phonemes, have a general idea of how I want to do grammar, and even have a rough idea of how I want to develop this language.
Right now I am having trouble finding resources explain, or answering my last big puzzle and that is how to take words from a proto-language and shift them into the sounds that this intended conlang has. I'm running from Proto-Celtic and looking to import vocabulary from proto-celtic but am unsure if there are rules or how I should have sounds shift from proto-Celtic to the ones my conlang has.
Are you actually working on an historically plausible Celtic language? Or is it just a more-or-less Celtic aesthetic that draws you?
Re: Having trouble building vocabulary.
There's also the Index Diachronica, which has information on sound shifts for many languages and families, including some on Celtic in section 17.5. The Index is probably an especially good resource since you can also look a bit at other families' histories. You might find more in Krzysztof Jaskuła's Ancient Sound Changes and Old Irish Phonology (but I haven't read it yet, so no promises) if you want to understand Old Irish in particular.