Whoah, whoah. You've made some assumptions of me. I'm kinda a language hobbyist, I've never studied it. I made a bare-bones phonology and a set of words for a proto-language and I'm putting sound changes to it and fucking around with it to see where it all ends up. No linguistics major buddies (at least not for a long while yet), sorry. EDIT: Basically I conlang for fun. That sums it up.
Aw damn :/ That's still really really cool though, sounds like you're building a language?
My plan right now is to get a nice big pretty language-family chain going after all these sound changes, then maybe filling them out with... pretty much anything beyond the very surface. I want to finish looking up and figuring out sound change first.
Could be worth looking a little a morphology, and creating some basic morphemes as well