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After a while I decided to send this brief info about my new project to W.A.Conlangs too in a slightly modified mode, at least to create some traffic here. Kuman (Kuman Tyli, Kumandzha) is constructed aposteriori Turkic language (Qypchaq group) spoken in several villages in Ukraine (Lugansk region) and Russian Federation (Rostov region) in an alternative timeline pretty close to OTL. Ca. 2,000 speakers (2004, estimation) - of those families from remnants Polovtsy/Qypchaq tribes who adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 11-13 cc. East Slavic influence on Underwent strong all levels: phonology, morphology, syntax and vocabulary. Arabic and Persian most other Turkic borrowings common to languages, are very few. All speakers bilingual, many young people having Russian exclusively at homes in as L1. Used almost everyday conversations. Occasional written documents (mostly private letters) in early 20 c. Orthography Cyrillic script since non-regularized. In our publications we use spelling rules developed by a local teacher Basysh (Vasily) Karsakov in 2002 that become more and more popular among Kumans. In September 2004 two village schools in Melovoye district (Lugansk region, Ukraine) plan to start evening language courses for children and adults, using Karsakov's spelling.We hope that due to the growth of interest to this language it has stopped being under the danger of extinction. -- Yitzik