This is a cool idea, I’ve wanted to try something like it for a long time.
It isn’t a very realistic model; it appears to treat every word as independent.
Language change usually happens to groups of words, rather than to single words. A lot of languages divide words into a few buckets that behave differently with regard to morphology, often on the basis of their history (“originally from French”, or whatever); changes tend to happen to every word in some set of these buckets.
And vowel shifts tend to happen to the entire language at once, everywhere some particular phonemic context occurs.
Still, it’s neat to watch and it would make a good basis for something more detailed.
Based on the lack of documentation, this looks like somebody’s experiment for fun. I’d love to meet the author and hear more about their plans for it.
Hmm.
This is a cool idea, I’ve wanted to try something like it for a long time.
It isn’t a very realistic model; it appears to treat every word as independent.
Language change usually happens to groups of words, rather than to single words. A lot of languages divide words into a few buckets that behave differently with regard to morphology, often on the basis of their history (“originally from French”, or whatever); changes tend to happen to every word in some set of these buckets.
And vowel shifts tend to happen to the entire language at once, everywhere some particular phonemic context occurs.
Still, it’s neat to watch and it would make a good basis for something more detailed.
Based on the lack of documentation, this looks like somebody’s experiment for fun. I’d love to meet the author and hear more about their plans for it.