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* "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). | * "Present day" is around 15000 BCE by absolute chronology. Highest level of technology is mostly mid 1800sy, more advanced in eg. material sciences (<s>rudimentary quantum physics</s> experimentally going on spectroscopy, theoretically far behind) 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. | * ''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? | * A possible third hominid species survives in southern Africa? | ||
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| Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels | | Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels | ||
| North India? North Africa? | | North India? North Africa? | ||
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===Sprachbund symmary=== | ===Sprachbund symmary=== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:56, 18 December 2010
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 physicsexperimentally going on spectroscopy, theoretically far behind) 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Notable; family size undecided | Voiceless nasals | Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion) |
| East Caucasian' | Postulated | Minor family - possibly related to SC' | ||
| South Caucasian' | Very sketch | Major but geographically limited family | Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency | Caucasus & Levant |
| Transcaspian' | Very sketch | Small but old family | Palatalization, labialization, pharyngealization, … | West-central Asia |
| 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 (historically also Levant) |
| Klusterax | Sketch+ | Small family | Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing | Southeast Asia (need to pin down better) |
| Battlax | Sketch | Currently medium-sized, formerly major family | Vricativs, no /p/; brief /kx/ (branch 3) | NW India & therearound |
| Sahax | Sketch | Part of a small, fractured family | Vricativs, not keen on labial stops, /u/, /e/; | Woodlands of India |
| Austric' | Sketch+ | Major family of Southern Asia | Small sound inventories; ablaut | |
| Classical Chinese' | Sketch | "Classical Chinese". You do the math. | Polysynthetic, /ʃ/ w/o /s/ | Gee, I have no idea… :) |
| Japonic' | Sketch | Small, formerly medium-sized family | /ɬ/ | Coastal East Asia |
| Telefax | Sketch | Small family | Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels | North India? North Africa? |
Sprachbund symmary
- Rare POAs
- Interdentals: central Sahara to East Africa, ATM
- Pharyngeals/emphatics: NW Asia
- Labiovelars: Himalaya(ish)
- Lhaterals: NW India, …
- Front rounded vowels: Indonesia, Indochina (feat. vowel harmony), East Himalayan foothills
- 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, the Indus valley to some extent
- Register tones: (??)
