I tried coming up with words for a while, and I can’t help thinking in patterns. It’s very hard to believe that “kish” and “kash” for example would not be different apophonic grades of the same word. E.g. blood/bleed, sit/seat in English. With 5 vowels and monosyllabic roots that’s 5 grades per set?

I like the idea of having a limited vocabulary, which forces metaphor. #TokiPona is a little extreme for me, but something like ~500 base words? An approximately (C)V(C) structure with 10 consonants & 5 vowels gives around that number, a neat 10*5*10. I’ve heard the grid shouldn’t be full, but… 🫣

Ani is back, coming to you from the ancient city of Khiva. New version in development.

This new version will be a real #conlang, not only a script. I’m thinking the back story might be a kind of ancient Silk Road auxlang.

Mostly apriori, but of mysterious origin?