hii can I ask how / where you learned how to create a conlang . I've tried learning in the past but it's never quite clicked for me
I didn't learn from anyone in particular I just made it up as I went along. But here's my method so far!
I started assigning words to things (I started with colors, then branched out from there). I kept an online dictionary with both English and Nelthyet so I could Ctrl+F to find the words again easily. I reused some words in the making of other words (big + dog = wolf. Red + water = blood. Friend + mine= thank you)
Then for many years I just added to that dictionary over time. "Oh I don't have a word for ground yet, let's make one, oh I don't have a word for sadness yet, let's make one"
It helped me a lot to start translating my favorite songs into my conlang so I could find words I was missing or I could use what I already had to explain the same ideas.
Grammar rules I just kinda winged... My rule is you conjugate the first verb to the tense of the sentence and the rest of the verbs in the sentence can stay neutral. In Nelthyet a sentence would read "yesterday I jumped, run, and sing" instead of "yesterday I jumped, ran, and sang". But you do what you like or what makes sense to you!
Really just get creative with it! Id seen people talking about how language plays a big part of culture so you can subtly say things about the culture of the speakers by adjusting the language! Is there a certain sound that is always used in negative words? Positive words? Are there curse words? What do they translate directly to? If there are words commonly learned by babies or small children (mom, dad, food, milk, candy, etc etc etc) are these words easy for children to say? If not, do they often get shortened?
As for the script ........ Imma be real with you.. collect a bunch of symbols you like the look of, keeping in mind how you imagine this culture originally wrote these symbols. Mine was a language carved into skin so the lines are straight, no curves or dots or things that would be hard to cut. But maybe yours was written with a paint brush so it can have lots of swirls and dots and other things. Maybe it was finger painted so it has marks that would be easily recreated through finger painting. Go crazy! Now Assign the symbols to sounds. That was my method at least. Add symbols for . ? ! Etc
