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[Hubris Incalculable]

Among my several interests and hobbies, I am very much interested in languages, and have, on occasion, even attempted to make them (this, incidentally, is why i really don't like Toady's language system). One of the things that I've thought of pertaining to language the idea that one could construct a computer program that could create a language (or language family) that follows a logical development, possibly including influence from other languages in the "region", and such like.

Now, I'm not proposing or suggesting that anyone here code such a complex monstrosity, nor am I asking for advice on how I could code it. I'm merely asking whether it would be a feasible thing to do. so, is it?

[RedKing]

I've some generators that sort of do this (I'm at work right now and the name escapes me), and can run mutation rules to simulate natural evolution from archaic version of a language to later forms. But even then, the output is mostly just vocabulary, it can't handle grammar well, and the output is too regular.

[Starver]

I remember participating on a huge thread in which improvements to Fortress languages were proposed.  There were quite a few things in there that might well be of interest.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=38052

You might want to ignore my posts.  I was obviously in one of my frequent verbose phrases and, although I still stand by what I said, I wish in hindsight I'd used words of less syllables.