What kind of words are necessary in a language? Firstly, languages are for exchanging ideas, so all these ideas need words - नाम(noun). The nouns will be described or interacted with by people or things. Words must exist to refer to these doers(सर्वनाम) in all possible frames of reference - something ascribed to as 1st/2nd/3rd person in languages. 1st person refers to the speaker unit, 2nd to the listener unit, 3rd to everything outside these two units. These units may be one or many (एकवचन/बहुवचन). And lastly, words must exist to define the nature of interactions - Verbs(क्रियापद). There also comes another form of association here, aside from our letter-sound clusters: the word-meaning clusters. The brain must be taught to associate a certain pattern of sound with a word, and to associate this word with a meaning. It is worth considering how the brain interprets meaning at this phase, and for this, one diverts his attention to the way an infant acquires his/her mother tongue. An infant possesses only an extremely flexible and receptive brain, without having any grammatical abilities. When teaching them how to associate things, parents often point to a tangible thing and repeat its associated word a few times, until the association is made. Essentially, this assignment of meaning is pictorial, and this is a language that everyone is born with. After some pictorial representation is completed, the infant picks up intangible concepts based on behavioural cues and conversation eavesdropping, until he/she is ready to enter school and begin learning on a formal level. In other words, the learning has to be not from language to language, but from mind to language, and that too pictorially. It is hence good practice even when learning as an adult to isolate centres for different languages and learn words not by translation, but by assigning some pictures/action to them, both for efficiency and prevention of language mixing. For the sake of avoiding the work of imagining everything from scratch, let us grab the base words from संस्कृतभाषा. Though it has 3 genders, we shall consider each word as male in an attempt to make our language genderless. Kindly note though, that our language is entirely distinct from संस्कृतम्, though it will steal a lot of things from it during development. Now, we have enough to make basic sentences. रामः गच्छ Ram go कुक्कुरः क्रीड Dog play Another important consideration is time - When is the action in question occurring: has it ended, is it ongoing or will it start later?- Tense(काल). Since tenses are associated with the action of a sentence, it makes sense to slightly modify the base verb depending on the tense. Let us consider 3 basic tenses : Past(भूतकाल), Present(वर्तमानकाल), Future(भविष्यत् काल). Similarly, altering word form(बालकाः) instead of writing nouns repeatedly for multiple occurrences(बालकः बालकः बालकः) is a logical but not necessary simplification, though it may be advised to limit repetitions to three, irrespective of how many there are. Using 3rd person pronouns to avoid repetition of nouns in consequent sentences is also of a similar nature - logical but unnecessary. We shall currently NOT consider these until they become necessary. Some English examples of a similar nature would be: girl girl park going [बालिकाः बालिकाः उद्यानः गच्छ]/ girl girl park gone [बालिकाः बालिकाः उद्यानः अगच्छ]/ girl girl park will go [बालिकाः बालिकाः उद्यानः गमिष्य] father speaks [पितृः वद]/ father spoke [पितृः अवद]/ father will speak [पितृः वदिष्य] So, we now have words and some basic forms for the following categories of words: Nouns - नाम Pronouns - सर्वनाम (1st, 2nd Person) Verbs - क्रियापद (भूत, भविष्यत्, वर्तमान काल) It is entirely possible that some readers disagree with the way this development progresses, yet the point is not to define this process, but to justify the outcomes and to highlight the requirement of every feature that most languages use. When the most defining features of a language are found to create the most basic functioning language, a learner will know that these are the elements that are necessary to know if a language is to be understood. The rules regarding these elements must be learned directly using various resources and not left to pattern recognition, by which I mean that one must possess a basic idea of these elements, not that they must be perfect in their replication. As mentioned before, they slowly become engraved into your bloodstream. Everything else may then be left up to the natural pattern algorithms of the brain. The way these necessary elements will be added is by first producing an example that explains the shortcomings of the current structure.