> > > > I've studied over 12 human languages, and found *none* of them
> > > > "straightforward and coherent" in grammer.
>
> Karkar-Yuri is pretty good.
> 1,300 odd speakers. No known relationships to any other language (!)

I was thinking of a similar situation. A "pure" language, with no
outside interference might be more self-consistent.

> It helps to evolve the language with no written rules at all (indeed, no
> writing of any sort) first, and then create an alphabet, grammar and all the
> accoutrements to match what you find.

Like Welsh? An English monk created the written form of the language,
putting the Welsh sounds to the roman alphabet. It was not a good match.
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