12-10-2021 - Bullywug Phonotactics & Lexicon - Classwork and Homework

  1. Let's record the next couple months of yppah yadhtrib names today starting w/ acinaD! 
  2. Show me your Bullywug consonant and vowel charts and tell me about your thinking behind those.
  3. Share with me what you learned from the David J. Peterson video this week. 
  4. Show me your Bullywug phonetics and phonotactics so far and talk about what needs to happen next. (Here's a tool for phonology building that you might like to explore)
  5. Create a blog post telling about Bullywug characteristics (culture, tendencies, biology, habitat). You can copy-paste from other resources. This is just a post of references we can return to as we discuss your language.
  6. Finish your phonotactics first draft (it can always be revised later)
  7. Let's watch some frog sound videos for inspiration / comparison 🐸
  8. Re-read pp. 50–56 in The Language Construction Kit and fill in the Lexicon spreadsheet for Bullywug. Create 25–100 words from the Swadesh list and put them in a blog post.
  9. Does your language have a name? Or is it just Bullywug language?



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