Have any of you tried to create a fantasy or synthetic language for characters or a culture in a story?
How did you go about it?
I used to make languages based around our standard english alphabet, minus certain redundant letters (w, x, c, y, etc.).
When I read the thesis on language creation at http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/lng/ , I found that there's a lot more to it than that.

I didn't even knopw about fricatives, affricates, approximates or any of that stuff before reading this.