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* A possible third hominid species survives in southern Africa? | * A possible third hominid species survives in southern Africa? | ||
==Project summary== | |||
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| [[Battlax]] || Sketch || Currently medium-sized, formerly major family | | [[Battlax]] || Sketch || Currently medium-sized, formerly major family | ||
| No /p/, vricativs; brief /kx/ (branch 3) | | No /p/, vricativs; brief /kx/ (branch 3) | ||
| NW India | | NW India & therearound | ||
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| Caucasian' || Very sketch || Large but geographically limited family | | Caucasian' || Very sketch || Large but geographically limited family | ||
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| Caucasus & Levant | | Caucasus & Levant | ||
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| [[Univax]] || Sketch || | | [[Univax]] || Sketch || Single | ||
| Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony | | Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony | ||
| North Africa | | North Africa | ||
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| All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara | | All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara | ||
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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) | ||
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| 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 | ||
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| [[Zithromax]] || | | [[Zithromax]] || Very sketch || Major family | ||
| Unitary splosivs & prenasals | | Unitary splosivs & prenasals | ||
| Let's say Western Sahara | | Let's say Western Sahara | ||
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Revision as of 13:58, 12 May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altaic' | Sketch++ | Major family | Uvulars, labial-velars (East); emphatics (West) | Dispersed from Central Asia |
| 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 |
| Univax | Sketch | Single | Allophonic uvulars, stable palatal stop, interdentals, noncontrastiv voicing, voiceless nasals, mid vowel harmony | North Africa |
| Klusterax | Sketch++ | Small family | Loose phonotactics, non-contrastiv voicing | Southeast Asia |
| Mivizian | Sketch | Small family | Vricativs, small vowel system | Northern Drift Valley |
| Nilotic' | Sketch | Major family; possibly distantly related to Caucasian' | /kx/; implosivs (South); ejectivs, voiceless nasals & uvulars (North) | All the way along the Nile, eastern Sahara |
| Ouiqál | Beginnings | Single language (for now; not isolate!). | Voiceless nasals | Anatolia, originates from SW Central Asia (due to Altaic' expansion) |
| Persian' | Sketch++ | Medium-sized family | Uvulars; tones, lhaterals, vricativs & multiple sonorant sets (modern branch) | From Persia eastwards |
| Telefax | Sketch | Small family | Implosivs, lhaterals, nasal vowels | North India |
| 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 |
| Zithromax | Very sketch | Major family | Unitary splosivs & prenasals | Let's say Western Sahara |
