The website is also the home of the Language Construction Kit, Rosenfelder's article introducing new conlangers to the hobby. 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 helpful 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 Internetconlanging community. It has been translated into Portuguese and Italian by fans.
The website also has its own bulletin board, which for bandwidth purposes is actually hosted on a different site.
Some other notable features of the site include "Bob's Comics Reviews" ([1] (http://www.zompist.com/bob.shtml)), "Numbers from 1 to 10 in Over 4500 Languages" ([2] (http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml)) — one of the largest collections of number words in existence — and the FAQ for the newsgroupsci.lang ([3] (http://www.zompist.com/langfaq.html)).
Cuêzi is a pretty, Greco-Latinish language; Wede:i is wonderfully agglutinating; Kebreni is designed to be not very much like English while still being typical of human languages; Elkarîl is a non-human language which violates several human universals.
You can meet other conlang enthusiasts-- and get help when you're stuck-- at the zompist bboard.
Jeffrey Henning writes and posts regularly on the process of creating model languages and reviews a number of projects.
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