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I googled about the origins of many common languages, but most of them were just based off of another language. I tried finding out how those languages were mad
by ndrewxie 9y ago
I googled about the origins of many common languages, but most of them were just based off of another language. I tried finding out how those languages were made, but it just goes on...
- DonaldFisk 9y agoI identified eleven ground breaking languages here: http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/GroundBreakingLanguages.html http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/blog/GroundBreakingLanguages.ht... There's a family tree of languages here: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues.jpg http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues....
- PeterisP 9y agoWell, that's still the right direction that you should pursue. The buck stops somewhere, the history is not that long - if you trace all the ancestors and key influencers of a single language, that's generally 10 at most; and if you trace another language, half of them will overlap. You can't really skip that step anyway, it's not like you can make an informed decision about a particular syntax feature if you haven't taken a serious look on how that feature works or doesn't work in a dozen languages; and the more obscure languages tend to be very useful in this regard because they explore a larger variety of features and their combinations. Getting a short overview of syntax of at least some 25 languages would be a reasonable prerequisite before designing another one, and that overview would still be the easy and straightforward part.
- ndrewxie 9y agoOK, I'll follow the chain to the end :)