Zompist Bboard Again

I'm working on a new language that has a larger and more involved verb complex that I've experimented with before, and would like some feedback and advice as I start moving into the details of how it all works and start up with the forms that the affixes actually take. I'm going to put up a brief sk...

Baibai hu'hemaaqii hu'hemaqii. Neta roomi hemeedu?
PAT\everyone and=PROG-silent and=PROG-silent PAT\what PAT\you APPL\PROG-happen
Everyone's being so quiet. What's going on with you?

Thanks everyone for your replies! I hadn't worked out any of the background before; thinking about it more and looking through the different strategies, I think I'm going to say any old N before consonants turned into length (and maybe some impact on tone), and have old~fossilized compounds lose the...

I'm trying to decide how to handle compounds that would end up violating phonological rules in my new conlang. The language allows word final nasals, but no finals in internal syllables, so /talam/ is a fine, but /!tamla/ isn't. I want a lot of compounding for word derivation, so /siro/ + /talam/ ca...