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Zompist.com, also called The Metaverse, is a website created by Mark Rosenfelder, a conlanger. It features essays on comics, politics, language, and science, as well as a detailed description of Rosenfelder's conworld, Almea. The website is also the home of the Language Construction Kit, Rosenfelder's article introducing new conlangers to the hobby.
Many features of the site have been noted by the press, including its culture tests,[1] humorous excerpts from phrase books,[2] its collection of numbers in over 5000 languages[3] and the "Language Construction Kit".[4][5][6]
Contents
Language Construction Kit
The Language Construction Kit[7][8] is a collection of HTML documents written by Rosenfelder and hosted at Zompist.com intended to be a guide for making constructed languages. The Kit proceeds from the simplest aspects of language upward, starting with phonology and writing systems, moving on to words, going through the complexities of grammar, and ending with an overview of registers and dialects. This sensible progression, as well as the warnings against common oversights, frequent use of examples from natural languages, and healthy dose of humor, has earned the Kit its popular and respected status among the Internet conlanging community. It has been translated into Portuguese and Italian by fans, and has come out in book form in March 2010.[9]
Languages constructed by Mark Rosenfelder (all intended to be spoken within an imaginary world called Almea) include:
- Verdurian
- Ismaîn
- Barakhinei
- Caďinor
- Cuêzi
- Axunašin
- Xurnese
- Proto-Eastern
- Kebreni
- Munkhâshi
- Wede:i
- Old Skourene
- Elkarîl
- Flaidish
- Uyseʔ
- Lé
The Zompist Bulletin Board
The website has a corresponding bulletin board, hosted with SpinnWebe. The Zompist Bulletin Board (often abbreviated ZBB) is an online forum created for the purpose of discussing conlangs, conworlds, and Mark Rosenfelder's own constructed world, Almea. Members of the board share and showcase their own conlangs and conworlds, as well as discuss aspects of the world's languages.
See also
Notes
- ^ Cooper, Gael Fashingbauer; Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), June 2, 2001, "An international view of culture offers surprises"
- ^ Informationsdeinst, "Kurz notiert", April 22, 2004
- ^ Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), February 4, 2002, Page A2
- ^ Fairfield County Business Journal; 12/27/99, Vol. 38 Issue 52, p7, "Surf's Up"
- ^ ComputerSweden, January 20, 2006
- ^ Deutsche Welle, September 20, 2004, "Schmeichlerische Sprachmelodien"
- ^ Corriere della Sera, March 8, 1998
- ^ Le Monde, February 21, 1998
- ^ Zompist.com
References
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