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Nobody's mentioned Sainsbury's "Kick" yet? I'm surprised.

I like where this is going. It would certainly make sense... if they're the only ones producing silk, they could build up quite a trade monopoly. The only question is, where are Cedh's Wellawi going to go? I imagined them as being around that little lake to the west of the Tjakori, which would put t...

My sense is that they're Bronze Age - no iron. I don't know much about types of ships. Probably they're at the level of ancient Aegean ships, not too big, and with a single sail. Ok, I'll include that in the descriptions. Mounted warfare, I assume, was borrowed from the Westerners at a late date. T...

Daquarious P. McFizzle wrote:Lightning Set My Butt On Fire. Also, Brass Bikini, both by Amanda.
Ninja edit: By the same artist, Me Swinging in Cookieland.

Jesus fucking Christ. Those are...

...compelling.



**brain dribbles out of ears**

Ok, I'll move the cities a bit closer to the peninsula. Looking at the distributions of Minoan, Cycladic, and Phoenician civilisations it seems that about 400 miles of coast should do the trick. My only concern is that if they're too close together, it would be harder to explain the divergence of th...

The proto-lang is spoken around -1500 YP; the Lukpanic languages are expected to become extinct sometime around -200 YP, although I imagine a century or so either way will be ok. Remember that your dialect should probably share some features with the Isi dialect, which is geographically the closest ...

I made these yesterday while passing the time I should have spent revising. Ingredients: 200g or so of chocolate (any kind, cheap is goood) Coco Pops to taste Raisins to taste - Melt the chocolate in the microwave. It will take about 2 1/2 minutes. - Mix everything else in. - Put dollops on a tray a...

Xshalad sounds good to me. It could be the language of an outlying province; perhaps part of a trade route with the successors to Cedh's Wellawi people.

If you're referring to the table on the Proto-Lukpanic page, those samples are just ideas. You can derive a dialect to look like one of those (as Alces and I have both done) or just go your own way and replace the changes given. EDIT: In case it's not clear, nobody has actually made a Doanu dialect....

It is very odd, isn't it? It must be terrible for other English-speakers to work out where you're from.

Oh, and Yiuel: That's a great picture!

The song is very good, but the video is just awesome . Hmmm, the video seems rather plain to me (if not on the kitschy side), just walking around on snow; I'm starting to kinda like the band, though. And the Hungarian when sung sounds so much more 'humanly'... They're a good band - the recent album...

Here's an updated map of the Lukpanic coast, featuring Corumayas' suggestions from here, and showing Pigbaea. (I used the Proto-Lukpanic name for consistency.)

Any comments? In particular, is Pigbaea is roughly the right place, and do the other cities look better now?

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The song is very good, but the video is just awesome.

He looks incredibly French. I suppose that's to be expected...

Also: a map of the sea east of Peilaš , with major cultures as of 400 YP. Athalē, Huyfárah, and Affalinnei are correctly placed, but the others are tentative. The Mûtsinamtsys are based one group of islands further south. Where you have them, there should be the Máotatšàlì. Also, shortly after 400 ...

A couple more maps. Most importantly: a version of the Lukpanic map with ethnic groups in about -500 YP. Locations are tentative and I'll change them if they don't work, but I've assigned them based on descriptions in the grammars. Some, like the Wañelinlawag Empire, are reasonably firm - it looks l...

That's... gorgeous. And good to know that we have one of the original contributors coming back to the project. :D I believe the Western regions have a few small errors, though: - The Kipceʔ desert should be where you've labelled "Coastal Corridor." Where you've labeled "Kipceʔ Desert" is a continuat...

Apologising in advance for the double post... Alces' new Coastal language has got me making some progress on my own. I've now run up against a few issues with the background to this language: - Are any of the Steppe languages close enough geographically to provide loanwords? If so, which? - What abo...

The Cursed Relay takes place on the same timeline as, but somewhat later than, the current Diachronics Relay II (this thread). They're set on opposite sides of the same continent and are part of the same large-scale project. The Lukpanic languages' lasting influence is as a substratum under the late...

Sounds good to me! It also means that the Ishe Coastal dialect can pick up loanwords from that of Naəgbum, which will be fun.

Well, just make up your own conservative dialect if you want :D Dunomapuka has said that people are free to derive Lukpanic dialects for whatever purpose; Ishe (which is itself quite conservative considering the 700-year-plus time depth) is supposed to be the dialect of a single city-state conquered...

Aw, bless!

That looks pretty sweet so far! I like the way it's picked up labial-velars. I think, though, that the date of -1300 is rather early. Proto-Lukpanic as described is supposed to be spoken around -1500, and PCW around -1800; my descriptions of late Ishe Lukpanic and Ishe Coastal date to -670 and -450 ...

Go for it. I'll be happy to have some more loanwords for my own CW language