Cardial

Cardial is a language family created by Spinovenator. The Cardial languages represent descendants of the language of Cardium pottery culture or Cardial impressed culture of Neolithic Mediterranean Europe. Originally these languages were spoken by farmers that carrying Y-DNA haplogroup G2a, distantly related to the Kartvelian and Midrean languages.

This idea was born on the assumption that the Cardium pottery culture was a culture with good maritime skills and that it was linked to a culture of its own and was not just a cultural movement of southern Europe. This original language is known as Proto-Cardial.

Diachronic evolution of languages

Cardial languages are postulated to evolve from a period of a dialectal continuum, so that the relationship between languages could not be fully understood had it not been for their relatives with the surrounding tongues through contact time.

Proto-Cardial

• South I

• South Italian I

• South Italian II
• Sicilian I

• Libian I?
• Sardinian I

• Sardinian II

• Sardinian III

• Corsican I

• Corsican II

• Corsican III

• Sicilian II

• Tunisian I (Influenced by: Sardinian II)

• Tunisian II

• Tunisian III

• North I

• North II

• North Italian I (Influenced by: South Italian I)

• North Italian II
• Alpine I?
• French I (Influenced by: Corsican II)

• French II
• Spanish I

• Tartessian I (Influenced by: Tunisian II)

• Tartessian II

• Tartessian III

• Atlantic I (Influenced by: South Portugal II)

• Atlantic II (Influenced by: North Portugal II)

• Atlantic III

• South Portugal I (Influenced by: Tartessian II)

• South Portugal II

• South Portugal III

• North Portugal I

• North Portugal II

• North Portugal III

See also

• Agroic languages
• Cardial-Impresso languages