Zompist Bboard Again

Verbs I want to talk a bit about the verbal system of Dunsish. Like Basque, colloquial Welsh (as I recall), Udi, and others: Dunsish has a closed class of light verbs which carry aspectual and modal inflections (notably not tense, however). There are approximately 30 or so light verbs, most of whic...

This will be a short post. Gender System There are several different categorization schemata that nominal roots/stems participate in, but right I'm just going to focus on the gender system. In essence, there are 5 different genders which correspond to the 5 (western) classical elements: earth, water...

Welcome to the ZBB! Enjoy the customary, delicious greeting: Thanks! In general, I am not going for absolute naturalism here. It's helpful to know someone's goals for the language! Still, I think feedback will lean towards naturalism, just because comparing to real languages is about the only yards...

Hi all. I've been sketching a language in my mind for awhile, several years in fact, and with the pandemic I've decided now's the perfect time to actually commit it to writing. The language is just called Dunsish for now, but I'm not sure if that will stay. I was going to do a full sketch but I thin...