Edastean languages

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The Edastean language family (from Fáralo Edástə, "Ndak Ta") encompasses Ndak Ta and the large number of tongues descended from it. These are the principal languages of the cultural sphere centered on the Aiwa Valley. Edastean is itself a branch of the larger Macro-Edastean Family. Currently known direct descendants of Ndak Ta are:

  • Naidda, the language of Kasca (the areas in and around the Aiwa Delta) which was the center of Ndak civilization
  • Fáralo, spoken in the areas to the north of Kasca, and the language of the Empire of Huyfárah
  • Adāta, native to the Rathedān highlands, with its numerous descendants, the Dāiadak Languages, spread in every direction by the conquests of the Empire of Athalē
  • Ndok Aisô, native to the original Ndak homeland of Lasomo
  • Ðaleglo, spoken in the Dagæm Islands
  • Komeyech, spoken in the Eiwəl Gourun plateau
  • Qedik, spoken on the coast north of the Northern Mountains

Fáralo and Adāta, the languages of the two great Edastean empires of the Classical Era, are believed to be the most influential in the long term.

The family was created by members of the ZBB in the course of two different conlang relay games.

The first one, a reconstruction relay, was begun in 2005. Two teams each derived five daughter language sketches from one protolanguage, which was then to be reconstructed by the other group. Starting from Radius Solis' Ndak Ta, Team Two of this game created Adāta, Fáralo, Naidda, Ndok Aisô, and Qedik.

The second relay, which started in the summer of 2006, took Dewrad's Adāta language as a starting point and set out to create several long branches of the language family, the longest of which is currently in the 8th generation. As of October 2007, this relay is still ongoing, and currently being supplemented with a collaborative conworlding effort.

The Tsinakan text is the Babel Text of Edastean studies. Translations will be posted at the linked page when available.

Tree of the Edastean language family