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! Location
! Location
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| [[Proto-Altaic'|Altaic']] || Sketch++ || Major family
| Mivizian || Sketch || Small family
| Uvulars, labial-velars (East); emphatics (West)
| Vricativs, small vowel system
| Dispersed from Central Asia
| Northern Drift Valley
|-
| [[Battlax]] || Sketch || Currently medium-sized, formerly major family
| No /p/, vricativs; brief /kx/ (branch 3)
| NW India & therearound
|-
| Caucasian' || Very sketch || Large but geographically limited family
| Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency
| Caucasus & Levant
|-
|-
| Genjax || Sketch || Single language, part of a large family (Mid-Sahel ~ upper Zambezi)
| Genjax || Sketch || Single language, part of a large family (Mid-Sahel ~ upper Zambezi)
| Labiopalatals, no /m/
| Labiopalatals, no /m/, small vowel system
| around Serengeti?
| around Serengeti?
|-
| Klusterax || Sketch++ || Small family
| Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing
| Southeast Asia
|-
| Mivizian || Sketch || Small family
| Vricativs, small vowel system
| Northern Drift Valley
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|-
| Nilotic' || Sketch || Major family; possibly distantly related to Caucasian'
| Nilotic' || Sketch || Major family; possibly distantly related to Caucasian'
| /tθ kx/; implosivs (West); voiceless nasals (Egyptian'); /j+ j-/, ejectivs & uvulars (South)
| /tθ kx/; implosivs (West); voiceless nasals (Egyptian'); /j+ j-/, ejectivs & uvulars (South)
| All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara
| All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara
|-
| [[Zithromax]] || Very sketch || Major family
| Unitary splosivs & prenasals
| Let's say Western Sahara
|-
| [[Univax]] || Sketch || Single language
| Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony
| North Africa
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|-
| [[Ouiqál]] || Beginnings || Single language (for now; not isolate!).
| [[Ouiqál]] || Beginnings || Single language (for now; not isolate!).
| Voiceless nasals
| Voiceless nasals
| Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion)
| Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion)
|-
| Caucasian' || Very sketch || Major but geographically limited family
| Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency
| Caucasus & Levant
|-
| [[Proto-Altaic'|Altaic']] || Sketch++ || Major family
| Uvulars, labial-velars (East); emphatics (West)
| Dispersed from Central Asia
|-
|-
| [[Proto-Persian'|Persian']] || Sketch++ || Medium-sized family
| [[Proto-Persian'|Persian']] || Sketch++ || Medium-sized family
| Uvulars; tones, lhaterals, vricativs & multiple sonorant sets (modern branch)
| Uvulars; tones, lhaterals, vricativs & multiple sonorant sets (modern branch)
| From Persia eastwards
| From Persia eastwards
|-
| Klusterax || Sketch++ || Small family
| Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing
| Southeast Asia (need to pin down better)
|-
| [[Battlax]] || Sketch || Currently medium-sized, formerly major family
| No /p/, vricativs; brief /kx/ (branch 3)
| NW India & therearound
|-
|-
| [[Telefax]] || Sketch || Small family
| [[Telefax]] || Sketch || Small family
| Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels
| Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels
| North India? North Africa?
| North India? North Africa?
|-
| [[Univax]] || Sketch || Single
| Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony
| North Africa
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|-
| Uwjge?? || Almost nearly decent || Possibly single
| Uwjge?? || Almost nearly decent || Possibly single
| /ʀ/, fortis vs lenis stop system
| /ʀ/, fortis vs lenis stop system
| Not a clue, still possibly conworld-internal conlang if I don't declare it a strictly personal/engelang with no conworld background
| Not a clue, still possibly conworld-internal conlang if I don't declare it a strictly personal/engelang with no conworld background
|-
| [[Zithromax]] || Very sketch || Major family
| Unitary splosivs & prenasals
| Let's say Western Sahara
|}
|}
===Sprachbund symmary===
===Sprachbund symmary===

Revision as of 05:27, 7 July 2008

Earth-Prime, as in "apostrophe-like thing", not "primary". Not as much as a conworld as much as a place to dump phonology sketches on. Regardless, they have quite a bit of interaction so some fleshing-out is inevitable.

Ruff divergence outline:

  • "Present day" is around 15000 BCE by absolute chronology. Highest level of technology is mostly mid 1800sy, more advanced in eg. material sciences (rudimentary quantum physics) but less advanced in eg. geography & astronomy (1600s-ish).
  • Homo sylvatica, on the general level of development of H. erectus, survives in northern woodlands of continental Eurasia as well as a separate subspecies in southeast Asia.
  • A possible third hominid species survives in southern Africa?

Project summary

Name Status World-internal size Areal(ish) features contained Location
Mivizian Sketch Small family Vricativs, small vowel system Northern Drift Valley
Genjax Sketch Single language, part of a large family (Mid-Sahel ~ upper Zambezi) Labiopalatals, no /m/, small vowel system around Serengeti?
Nilotic' Sketch Major family; possibly distantly related to Caucasian' /tθ kx/; implosivs (West); voiceless nasals (Egyptian'); /j+ j-/, ejectivs & uvulars (South) All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara
Zithromax Very sketch Major family Unitary splosivs & prenasals Let's say Western Sahara
Univax Sketch Single language Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony North Africa
Ouiqál Beginnings Single language (for now; not isolate!). Voiceless nasals Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion)
Caucasian' Very sketch Major but geographically limited family Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency Caucasus & Levant
Altaic' Sketch++ Major family Uvulars, labial-velars (East); emphatics (West) Dispersed from Central Asia
Persian' Sketch++ Medium-sized family Uvulars; tones, lhaterals, vricativs & multiple sonorant sets (modern branch) From Persia eastwards
Klusterax Sketch++ Small family Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing Southeast Asia (need to pin down better)
Battlax Sketch Currently medium-sized, formerly major family No /p/, vricativs; brief /kx/ (branch 3) NW India & therearound
Telefax Sketch Small family Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels North India? North Africa?
Uwjge?? Almost nearly decent Possibly single /ʀ/, fortis vs lenis stop system Not a clue, still possibly conworld-internal conlang if I don't declare it a strictly personal/engelang with no conworld background

Sprachbund symmary

  • Rare POAs
    • Interdentals: central Sahara to East Africa
    • Pharyngeals/emphatics: NW Asia
    • Labiovelars: Himalaya(ish)
    • Lhaterals: NW India, …
  • Rare MOAs
    • Voiceless nasals: East Mediterranean (limiting line: Black Sea ~ Libya)
    • Clicks: Caucasus
  • Odd phonemes or holes
    • No /p/ or even /b/: Southern India
    • No or few nasals: Congo
  • Other phonetic stuff
    • Contour tones: Caucasus, Levant
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