All righty, sorry about that delay - the final map thread is here: http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...ad.php?t=32839

Thanks a bunch, Diamond. I took some phonetics classes, so my approach is phonetics-oriented: come up with a phoneme inventory and make words by jumbling those around - but syntax is kind of an afterthought. I try to give each language some kind of signature feature - all the languages of this world are missing liquids and approximants, and each one has individual features like being tonal or having affixes to denote various things.