Zompist Bboard Again

Is the scholarly literature on this language mainly in Russian?

Is it Nostratic?
(Hopefully this is top-level enough)

Are there person prefixes on both verbs and nouns?

Is this language spoken mainly by cattle herders in East Africa?

For Lexember this year, I took an underdeveloped language of mine I wanted to see grow... except I didn't have any derivational schemes for it. So what I'm doing is creating a new scheme a day and applying it to a maximum number of roots. It's a constraint: there can be no more roots created this mo...

So Tim Ar is plural. What about the other people names? Are they collectives, or can they be pluralised according to the rules found in this post?

(2), except if I am sure I can go away with (1) (do I really need a new word?). More often than not playing with (2) and (3)-(4) comes first and the definitions next: I am not always in a hurry to get a specific meaning. Like, recently I wanted to make a progressive out of a certain phrasal construc...

I want to be sure to understand: is this technology similar to Ksatlai?

That's a Kʼabeena text, alright! Go for it.

You are so close!

Lámi-ti-laa lameecc i bataʾanuu-h u ʾanga gujjoon i fakkʾoocc i ʾuullaan i ʾubbo-ʾi-rr a keeseen i ʾanga gujjoon i tʾappʾ tʾappʾ ʾaʾeen i téesu-h u kʾawu riccu ʾala waaššeen i torroon i ʾanga hoobe ʾaazi wareenn u . Kannoʾoot a waréennu-r a mati-t a ʾikkun i lámi-t i ʾangaacc i milikkʾoocc i tʾené-...

The presence of unt makes me think of Sinti.

Welsh Rromani.

An infinitive marker developping from the conjunction 'and' is not unheard of: cf Ylikoski 2017 for South Sámi. This paper tells of an influence from Scandinavian, where the conjunction and the infinitive marker are already homophonous; but we could imagine an autonomous development in a conlang goi...

I have a quick question. I'm working on a language family where one has prepositions and the other is highly inflecting. I need some help in how I go from a proto-lang with postpositions to a language with prepositions. Using postpositions to form case suffixes is simple, but I'm not sure what woul...

Bob, if you're posting your work on Facebook and ZBB at the same time and find it hard to rewrite content according to your audience each time (understandable), I suggest that you split the load. Post some work for a general audience on Facebook, and some other about a different language or research...

I say, the image quality of those frames is quite good. Did someone already transcribe all the lines?

elemtilas wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:34 amIt's a kind of fanfic.

Is there a precedent for the word 'fanlang'?

If anyone has any questions, that would be great. Do you have any of your own conlangs? Does it matter? Personally I find this sort of analysis of others’ conlangs no less fascinating than a new conlang. (Besides, I’m pretty sure there’s other members here who don’t have their own conlangs.) Second...

The situation with Klingon is an entirely different thing. Klingon continues to be used in ongoing productions, and people that I know and respect have been brought in to further the work that Okrand started almost 40 years ago. However, the KLI stopped updating its vocabulary fifteen years ago, fo...