How to develop Kämpya

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How to develop Kämpya

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Recently I've been putting a lot of work into Kämpya, and I feel like I've it's now at a basic level http://linguifex.com/K%C3%A4mpya.

What I'm wondering now is what would be the next step to develop it further. I would be very grateful for anyone's ideas on what to do here.

Any thoughts on the conlang are welcome too :)

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Have you decided how the language will handle compounding and relativization?
For example take the phrase. "The test I had yesterday turned out to be harder than what I expected."

You can also try translating a passage to test the language. One popular passage to try is the North Wind and the Sun. Also that Article from Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Re: How to develop Kämpya

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Before that I might propose developing a simpler orthography—I'm sure you're wearing out your keyboard with all the IPA in the examples.

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Yaali Annar wrote:Have you decided how the language will handle compounding and relativization?
For example take the phrase. "The test I had yesterday turned out to be harder than what I expected."
That's a good idea. I'll probably do that next. Thanks for reminding me :)

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Rhetorica wrote:Before that I might propose developing a simpler orthography—I'm sure you're wearing out your keyboard with all the IPA in the examples.
It's going to have it's own script (that's based off Burmese). But maybe I should devise a romanisation for it. I actually had a go at it, but the hard part is marking the tone / phonation / stress system. Maybe it's something for the "romanisation challenge thread".

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/áˈlôṵn/ - "that which is alone"
Really?

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Ambrisio wrote:
/áˈlôṵn/ - "that which is alone"
Really?
About 20% of the Kämpya vocabulary consists of English loanwords, such as this one.

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