#shoutout to my technically unnamed zombie oc ‘Zomtobi’

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Zombie conlang made up mostly of gestures and sounds like growls and groans

Zombie conlang that’s more simplistic than the usual human language but also more complex than the languages of animals like dolphins or corvids

Zombie conlang with variant gestures/sounds for zombies with missing body parts or vocal cords that don’t work

Zombies working together via their own language

Zombies struggling to remember & relearn how to speak the language they spoke as a human

Zombies using limestone, charcoal, mud, and/or blood to write messages on abandoned buildings for their fellow undead

Zombies with decent eye-hand coordination writing journals

Living allies of non-hostile zombies picking up bits & pieces of the zombie conlang from their zombie friend mumbling to themselves or trying to communicate hard-to-translate ideas

Living allies realizing that their non-hostile zombie friend seems to have designated zombie-language nicknames for them

Zombie conlang <3

(I know in-universe it wouldn’t be a conlang, and that there are similar ideas in the real world of broadly understood languages, I’m just brainstorming with little research lol)