u/jamegara

Just looking to see what the community’s general consensus is about conlang vocabulary development. Should a conlang be 100% a priori? Or is deriving your vocabulary from real world languages but changing it substantially enough to avoid “alienized X language” acceptable? Combination of both? If so, what’s a good split percentage?

I’ve been developing a conlang for my novel. I have been using a combination of derived but altered roots as well as a priori. I have pulled from 60 different languages across the world to make it sound unique and blended. But, was curious to know what other people thought and what their own process was for word generating.