- Why are you creating this language?
- Is there a specific way you want to organise your language, or a particular aim you have?
- How do you want your language to compare to other languages?
- What order do you want your language in? (SVO, SOV, &c.)
- Do you want to use particles?
- How will you make words possessive?
- Will you have masculine and feminine words?
- Will there be regular levels of politeness?
- Will things be pluralised? How?
- Do you want to include irregular words/verbs?
- Do you want to create archaic words?
- Do you want to aim for a specific set of distinctions in vocabulary? (values)
- How do you want to create tense, if at all?
The more you study other languages, the more you'll begin asking yourself new questions when creating a conlang. You don't need to know how to speak other languages, but you can study how they're constructed.
- How do they compare to your own first language?
- How do they compare to others?
- What do you like about your language?
- What do you dislike?
- What do you like or dislike about other languages?
- What changes might improve a language?
- What slight change might completely destroy a language?
- How do the languages compare to the people that speak them?
- What values do the languages seem to display?
- What's the history of the language?
- How complex is the language?
- How orderly?
- How vague?
- How much understanding or meaning depends on intonation?
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