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How do you insure that the new words you create for an alien language are etymologically consistent? French, German and English, or whatever language on earth, are etymologically consistent. Meaning that words sound and look like they're either French, German or English words. When creating a new languages, how do you insure that these new words are "etymologically" consistent, meaning that they're not just random letters stuck together, but they seem to come from a language that really do exist without creating said language.

For example, Akhashanahruhh, doesn't sound like it comes from the same language as Imon.

Philipp
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One approach is to just design phonemes for your language. In English, there are 44 sounds we make to produce all words.

I'd make your phonemes clear and distinct, languages evolve for clarity; we don't have many phonemes that are hard to tell apart.

So then take what you want to say in English, break it down into phonemes, and translate each phoneme to your own alien equivalent, and then decide on your spelling rules to capture that sound.

Of course you can alter the grammar as well, various extant languages have different grammars, nouns before verbs, adjectives before or after nouns, non-existent connective words, perhaps different sounds for pronouns, etc. So do that stuff in English before you translate to Alien.

Basically you can make your alien language consistent by mimicking the consistency of another language. Invent your own distinct phonemes, and everything else, including invented words, will follow.

For invented words, you can invent a sensible word in English and translate it to alien by phonemes.

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