In designing Erepathan, I figured out a way to simply the language building a ton.

1) Make the vowel sequences as usual (I think that's what they're called.)
2) Make up words for simple English words.
3) Use those words to make bigger words.

Example:
Fi=book
Vaar=God

Therefore, the allegorical representation of the Bible would then be called the Fivaar.

These short words can be used by themselves, too, of course.

Edit:
Dyrfri? (Understand?)
Dyr=think
fri-clear

Looks really interesting, Apollo! How did you go about creating the original, or base, words? What determines what words are melded to form the second word?

For example, think and clear could be made into 'understand', but also couldn't you use mind and clear or mind and grasp or something? I'm curious.

eruheran

Interesting thought process... I'm with Eruheran though. I'll wait for your answer.

Hmm.. Interesting. But you may find eventually that you have double words...it's impossible to keep track of everything. Think, Clear are melded to make understand, but couldn't they also be melded to make focus? You'd need to be extra careful.

As far as step one goes, just make sure that your syllables are created based on different rules than the English rules, or your not going to be as happy as you could be with the final result.

Step two is pretty common, but there are also other ways. Many languages borrow root words from other languages. Most Romance Languages (and their neighbors) borrow roots from Latin. It's often helpful to invent several languages which can borrow roots from each other. Spreads out your supplies.

As for using those words to make bigger words, that's a good way to get it done. Just remember that in a realistic language, there may be words like library and book, which could use the same roots, but don't in many cases. (Such as English.) There are lots of ways to go about building your words, try to use as many of them as you can.

The same could be said about English. Citizen would mean the same thing as civisen but the process that languages go through made it citizen. In the end, all words, Erepathan and English, are said in the simplest and easiest to say word. Older manuscripts contain the words "liverty", "numisoligo", and "phlegmaphobia".