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Leonardo Castro, On 03/08/2012 01:54:
Has anybody ever created a conlang with (1) easy pronunciation (like Toki Pona), (2) possibility of unambiguous word-break detection, (3) unambiguous syntactic structure, (4) one morpheme per word?
I think there must be lots, because (1-4) are not difficult goals. Liva would be an example. They're easy goals because:
(1) easy pronunciation (like Toki Pona),
Just pick whatever phonology is easy enough.
(2) possibility of unambiguous word-break detection,
Use one of the many unambiguous word-break detection methods
(3) unambiguous syntactic structure,
Simplest method is to require heads to have an invariant number of dependents, and then use only head-first or only head-last syntax.
(4) one morpheme per word
Don't have derivational morphology. --And.