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Re: How do diacronic conlangers work?



Funny that you should address that particular topic.  I've 
started reading The Children of Húrin, and my age-old urge
to create an original, non-trivial fantasy world of my own
awoke again.  In fact, I have this day-dream about making 
language sketches for several peoples, and have them be
related among each other (in particular, the "elemental"
species, though very different in lifestyle, habitat and
magic, would share a common ancestor language, 
"Proto-Natural", if you wish).

Contrary to your generalization, however, I would create
those languages in parallel, making up roots in the 
protolang as I went along.