Everyone likes PIE.
I am, of course, talking about Proto-Indo-European, the grandfather of the largest family of languages in the world. PIE transformed into European, Slavic, Celtic, Anatolian, and Hellenic language families—essentially, it populated what we know as the European continent and leached into Asia around the edges. If you’re reading this, you’re familiar with its reach.
Last week I talked about constructing a minlang—a small language, in this case based on a concept—so this week I wanted to talk about the exact opposite. One of my biggest projects to date involves creating a root language.
There’s a joke in here somewhere about it being a recipe for PIE, but I’m not going to go there.
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