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My idea was along the lines of the Sea Peoples to Ancient Egypt--an occasional threat that needs to be dealt with, but which could not overthrow the central government of Xshalad, not something a la the Mongol takeover of China. Interesting side thought: It would be cool if there were dynastic stru...

Cheers, Radius.
Since I'm in the fourth round, I might well end up doing something mediaeval, so there's hope for it yet.

To the senior members of the project, especially Radius: What's the current information on Xshalad and its languages? I know that: * It's big and very old, with a history stretching back into the distance (sort of like China) * It's pretty hot and sunny. People there tend to be much darker-skinned t...

4pq1injbok wrote:If roninbodhisattva's stepping out leaves an opening in round II on the Peninsular side, I could step into it -- that way I'd get to use my sound changes from Proto-Peninsular.

That would be really cool; I like those sound changes

Not very long, really; only a thousand years or so on Neinuoi, and not even that in Kereminth. I'd quite like to see more of the history of Téllinor, although I can't imagine there ever being an Atlas for it. I think that if there is another atlas, it would have to be another close-up, like the Skou...

Harpsichords are the Approved Method™.

I thought I'd add to this thread with a surprise contribution: The Ndak abjad is now available as a .ttf . (link is to parent directory) It's not really anything special, but I was bored and decided to make it; hopefully it will help anyone working on the writing of Akana. Its usage does require som...

Rammstein - Sonne
Just because. Also, it has an awesome video.

Here's one that might work. ' A bat was jealous of his neighbour the rat. When the bat cooked the food it was always very good, and the rat said, "How is it that when you make the soup it is so tasty?" The bat replied, "I always boil myself in the water, and my flesh is so sweet, that the soup is go...

Yes, let's split it.
Btw I was more interested in the near islands than Lesan, but we can discuss than on the other forum

EDIT: done.

Ok :) By the way, from the blank map it looks like there are a couple of major rivers in eastern Tuysáfa - one reaching the sea in the NW corner of the big bay in the south, and one coming out at the NW end of the eastern bay, although they could me flowing from anywhere. Both seem ideal for civilis...

I'd be happy doing a PNT descendant, though as things are turning out I won't be able to put much time in for a few weeks.
Doesn't Siixtaguna need a NT language?

I doubt that a new sentient species would be accepted, although it's possible. Lesan doesn't seem too out of the way to settle, since the distance from the east Tuysáfa island arc is about that from Norway to Iceland. It's much less isolated than, say, Hawaii or Easter Island, so neolithic peoples w...

As far as I know horses are native to western Peilash, so there probably aren't any on Tuysáfa. However, there's no reason not to have a different kind of beast of burden, like camelids. As far as timing goes, I've had a look at the internal history and got this rough outline, which should give us a...

Early to mid bronze age I believe. Sort of like early Assyria or Anatolia c. 1000-800 BC; the Tsinakan text is based on a Hittite original, so that sort of civilisation. And I like the idea of the second wave being more advanced and the first wave copper-age at first contact. That would make for som...

I like that. We could have bits of first-wave languages out all over the shop, and yes, Lesan sounds lovely. My only quibble would be that I doubt they'd have reached the Bronze Age before the second wave turn up (it is after all a few thousand years before Ndak times, and they were basically palaeo...

The map is here . See here for details. Rivers are certainly needed, but I think that if there aren't any objections we might just go ahead and put some in ad lib. Eastern Tuysáfa is pretty flat, so we can get away with just about whatever we want. Is there anywhere in particular that you want civil...

Nice! Thanks cedh.
I have a projection program so I can do (with some restrictions) maps of different areas. Any requests?

Hm. I've got a decent amount of free time this week, so I wouldn't mind

EDIT: but after Saturday I will be overwhelmed. So probably better not.

If you guys wouldn't mind, I'd love to get involved in work on Tuysáfa. Either of the collaboration methods you suggest sound like fun.

We could have it as free as "when the person's turn begins they choose which of any of the existing langs to derive their daughter from". That way we get relatively random number of splits per generation. I like that idea. Then no one would get saddled with a lang they didn't find that inspiring wh...

Confirmed!

If it's possible, I'd like to... er... make use of the flexible deadlines. Having a number of people waiting for me to finish would be bad, since I expect to be fairly busy until the end of November.

Also, my vote for starting language goes to PW or PCW.

I think Akana needs more monosyllabic, isolating languages although X-consonantal roots would also be good to see.

Nice.
Is it PCW or its descendants (or neither) that's supposed to borrow from Lukpanic?

15. I can't remember any of the dates.