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Zompist.com


Zompist.com, also called The Metaverse, is a website created by Mark Rosenfelder a.k.a. Zompist, a conlanger. It features essays on comics, politics, language, and science, as well as a detailed description of Rosenfelder's constructed world, 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, humorous excerpts from phrase books, its collection of numbers in over 5000 languages and the "Language Construction Kit".

The Language Construction Kit was originally 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, German and Italian by fans, and has come out in book form in March 2010. Rosenfelder has published book versions of the Kit, and there are now three follow-up works: the Advanced Language Construction, The Conlanger's Lexipedia, and the "Planet Construction Kit", which is geared towards creating whole fantasy worlds.


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