Case Study: From Proto-Uralic to Hungarian
When conlanging, I sometimes make up new features for my languages from scratch, but more often than not, some phenomenon in a natural language served as inspiration for it. Natural languages are often astonishingly beautiful and elegant in the way they express things, and when I encounter a particularly beautiful specimen, I feel like paying tribute to it by incorporating some of its features into one of my conlangs. Hungarian is such a case: Phonetically, is one of the most,…