This compounding system is mostly good, but there's a problem in the phonology:
caiqce = grandparent
My linguistics-trained but English-speaking brain refuses to accept "qc" as a valid mid-word consonant cluster, and insists on a phonology rule to put a vowel in between. (I realize there are several ways of mapping q and c into IPA, but none of them worked for me in this case.)
I drafted the words with the phonology rules of http://selpahi.de/ToaqAlphaPrimer.html
caiq is the first syllable of the word and ce the second.
But I grant you that at the moment I don't understand enough about phonology to publish a working draft of a language. My intent with this post was more to present the compounding system that I consider to be useful.
I'm working on a conlang (constructed language) and would like some input from the Less Wrong community. One of the goals is to investigate the old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis regarding language affecting cognition. Does anyone here have any ideas regarding linguistic mechanisms that would encourage more rational thinking, apart from those that are present in the oft-discussed conlangs e-prime, loglan, and its offshoot lojban? Or perhaps mechanisms that are used in one of those conlangs, but might be buried too deeply for a person such as myself, who only has superficial knowledge about them, to have recognized? Any input is welcomed, from other conlangs to crazy ideas.