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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?

As for now, a 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
Caucasian' Very sketch Large but geographically limited family Clicks (lost in some sub-branches), vricativs, tones, monosyllabic tendency Caucasus & Levant
Univax Sketch Small family 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 Sketch Major family Unitary splosivs & prenasals Let's say Western Sahara