Zompist Bboard Again

Don't forget Egypt, Cyrenaica, parts of South Asia, Crimea and Sicily.

Some ideas of my own unlikely to get off the ground: - A modern descendant of Dacian spoken in the Carpathians. May still use a variant of the Old Hungarian script. - A descendant of Khazar spoken by the descendants of Jewish converts - essentially the Turkic equivalent to Yiddish/Ladino. - An east...

the Turkic equivalent to Yiddish/Ladino Well.. it kinda is a thing already , although from a different branch. I once had an alternate history idea of a Late Medieval - Early Modern Jewish state in Crimea and adjacent areas, emerging as a subject of a large pagan empire (Lithuania? Turkic steppe em...

For my fellow Italo-Celtic enjoyers: neat ways to deal with kʷ gʷ (I-C is disputed and obviously, labiovelars aren't limited to those; still, I decided to joke with the title because I'm so prominently working on an Italic and a Para-Celtic conlang simultaneously and dealt with these phonemes in mi...

Isn't there a hypothesis that Elymian, a poorly attested language of Sicily, was in fact Anatolian?

Apparently Elamite survived until the 11th century CE in the town of Ramhormoz. This . I honestly don't know if it's CERTAINLY Elamite (could be anything, really, from an even earlier relic to a particularly peculiar Iranic dialect to a language of some nomadic group that migrated here at some poin...

Modern Akkadian For a moment I was working on a modern descendant of Akkadian. I imagined it spoken in Northern Iraq with speakers clustered in Mosul, Erbil, and Kirkuk. I recall that I called it something like Agadi - عقادي . If I had completed the project it would have had tremendous influences f...

Weird Latin *pʲ *pʷ *t *ʈ *k <p b t ŧ k> *s *ʂ *x *xʷ <s š h hů> *βʲ *w *ɹ *l *ɭ *j <v w r l ł j> *mʲ *mʷ *n *ɳ <m mŵ n ñ> *i *u <i u> *e *o <e o> *ɛ *ɔ <ê ô> *a <a> pʲɛmʲe βʲuɭɔ mʷɔn kaʈo xʷixʷiɹ wannoxʷa ʂixɛ kakaluɹ mʷe nala mʲa ʂɛmʲe totoxiɹ jan pʲɔxɔ ʈuɳen pêmê vułô mŵôn kaŧo qůiqůir wannoqůa ...

Nahuatl is polysynthetic. Maybe something with it? Also, maybe something with Yeniseian once again? Yeniseian-speaking nomads first making this family the dominant one in the steppes, parts of Eastern Europe, maybe Iran/Anatolia/parts of India (roughly like what Indo-Iranians did first and then Turk...

Thinking on global polysynthetic lingua franca possible timelines... Brazil's Tupi-based lingua francas survive as dominant, and Brazil perhaps becomes a globally influential power as USA did in OTL..? (AFAIK though, even modern Nheengatu at least is a whole lot less polysynthetic than Old Tupi, and...

Hey, what about Greenland? Oops, forgot about it! True, true. And well, also a nuanced case as the other 2 are. Yes, though a Greenlandic friend tells me that no Danish is required these days — you can do everything in Kalaallisut (and most people do, by the sounds of it). That's very cool!

(And unfortunately, while it is definitely an overgeneralization and oversimplification of things globally, most polysynthetic languages are definitely either threatened, have few speakers and/or limited official recognition. The only examples of countries I can think of where the majority of popul...

Polysynthetic global lingua franca Inspired by a discussion somewhere on Reddit I once saw, which argued polysynthetic languages were on decline globally, largely due to colonialism. (And unfortunately, while it is definitely an overgeneralization and oversimplification of things globally, most pol...

Siberian lingua franca

A lingua franca of alternate history Siberia/North Asia which avoided external conquest and ended up consolided by a native group while remaining significantly multilingual. Yeniseian? Uralic? Turkic? Tungusic? Anything else? An auxlang, maybe?

One adjective-like class that had consonant stems in PIE were the present active participles. Are they retained in Fevornian? And if yes, did they keep some consonant stem forms (like in Latin) or did they fully move to i-stem declension? The *-nts participles are retained, and they turned thematic...

Yeniseian Yeniseian is a language family with lots of fascinating theories about. From "Huns were Yeniseians" to the proposed Na-Dene and Burushaski links... While all of this is debatable and debated, this for sure opens a broad room of conlanging possibilities. 1. Modern Hunnic Simple: ...

I have some ideas for Indo-European languages representing lost branches besides the aforementioned Hesperic branch, my main project. 1. Two Continental Celtic languages, one in the western Alps (near Mont Blanc), one in the eastern Alps (near the Hohe Tauern), both with SVO word order and no initi...

Sinosphere Indo-European Basically, an Indo-European group migrates into East Asia, settles, falls under China's sphere of influence and ends up being written with Chinese characters and acquiring a massive layer of Sino-Xenic influence. Indo-European with its own numerals being completely replaced...

hm a weird Cyrillic attempt

п б т д к
с ш х ф
в ў р л ꙥ й
м ꙧ н њ

и у
е о
ѣ ѡ
а

пѣме вуꙥѡ ꙧѡн кадо фифир
ўаннофа шихѣ какалур ꙧе
нала мя шѣме
тотохир йан пѡхѡ дуњен

Adjective declension Adjectives in Fevornian decline in the same way as nouns, but with no inherent gender (taking gender from the associated noun instead and thus having either 3 (masculine, feminine, neuter) or 2 (masculine+feminine, neuter) forms). As of declension types, there are 3 main ones: ...