Questions on the Languages of Almea and other stuff

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 7:02 am

Mark, how many languages are there in Almea? (Including ones without a grammar or anything, that are at the moment just ideas)

Also, have you decided on any new ranks for the board yet?

Ghost

Post by **zompist** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:28 pm

There's at least 2000 languages on the whole planet.

However, the vast majority of these have nothing to them besides the thought that "hey, the people over here have got to speak something." There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 12:38 pm

zompist wrote:There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)

If you do, I should very much like to see it.

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:03 pm

Dudicon wrote: If you do, I should very much like to see it.

Ditto

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:50 pm

zompist wrote:There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)

D'you think you'll ever do grammars e.t.c. for them all?

I'd like to see the list as well

And you didn't answer my second question.

I wrote:Have you decided on any more ranks yet

Or are you waiting for us to jump out of out skins one morning when we become Adhs?

Ghost

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:07 pm

Ghost wrote:Or are you waiting for us to jump out of out skins one morning when we become Adhs?

At least wait until I become a Shayrom!

2,000 languages?

A list of the 100 (and a little explanation of who speaks it where, etc, and any possible information about it, like what languages it's similar to) would be excellent

Post by **zompist** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 4:36 pm

I'll create a new rank system sometime. It needs new art, so I'm not in a hurry.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:03 pm

Good. As shayromming takes time.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:08 pm

Or maybe not. Go me!

butsuri · Post by **butsuri** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:43 pm

Rory wrote: At least wait until I become a Shayrom!

(Incidentally, the word is Shrayom.)

vlaran of verduria · Post by **vlaran of verduria** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:34 am

There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)

Go on. The ones I no are: Verdurian, Ismain, Barakhenei, Caizu, Sarroc, Kebreni, Tyellakhi, Demoshi, Carhinnian, Irquarau, Erquarau, Karimian, Somoyi, Nurneot, Kacanzayin, Amacui, Kuromet, mixain, Eluyet, Cazule. Qeyu, Cuolese, Losainu, Tei, Lenani, Karimi, Lumbani, Disaini, Nagbe, Omicia, Tanjia, Sesa, Gurdagor, Lufasa, Andasa, Cimagri, Susisa, Xazengri, Seia, Rajjari, bolongri, Xurnas, Axunshin, Bangri, Teoisi, Sevisre, Didburir, Ecendi, Sijinti, Gelihurendi, Fei, Sureni, Jaeseni, Cuezian, Cadhinorian, Elkaril, Flaidish, Proto Eastern, Etodaole, Old Jeoiri, New Jeori, Naanese, Rafsami, Dhekhnami, Methuain and Giantish. 66. I'm missing about 34. Tell me them please.

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:35 pm

vlaran of verduria wrote:
There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)
Go on. The ones I no are: Verdurian, Ismain, Barakhenei, Caizu, Sarroc, Kebreni, Tyellakhi, Demoshi, Carhinnian, Irquarau, Erquarau, Karimian, Somoyi, Nurneot, Kacanzayin, Amacui, Kuromet, mixain, Eluyet, Cazule. Qeyu, Cuolese, Losainu, Tei, Lenani, Karimi, Lumbani, Disaini, Nagbe, Omicia, Tanjia, Sesa, Gurdagor, Lufasa, Andasa, Cimagri, Susisa, Xazengri, Seia, Rajjari, bolongri, Xurnas, Axunshin, Bangri, Teoisi, Sevisre, Didburir, Ecendi, Sijinti, Gelihurendi, Fei, Sureni, Jaeseni, Cuezian, Cadhinorian, Elkaril, Flaidish, Proto Eastern, Etodaole, Old Jeoiri, New Jeori, Naanese, Rafsami, Dhekhnami, Methuain and Giantish. 66. I'm missing about 34. Tell me them please.

Very impressive! Although I'm not sure Zomp meant exactly 100.

Ghost

Nuntar · Post by **Nuntar** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:27 pm

That's why he said he's missing "about" 34. Like, it might actually be 33.9 or something....

Mecislau · Post by **Mecislau** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:31 pm

vlaran of verduria wrote:
There's probably 100 languages that have a name. (Hmm, maybe I should make a list of these.)
Go on. The ones I no are: Verdurian, Ismain, Barakhenei, Caizu, Sarroc, Kebreni, Tyellakhi, Demoshi, Carhinnian, Irquarau, Erquarau, Karimian, Somoyi, Nurneot, Kacanzayin, Amacui, Kuromet, mixain, Eluyet, Cazule. Qeyu, Cuolese, Losainu, Tei, Lenani, Karimi, Lumbani, Disaini, Nagbe, Omicia, Tanjia, Sesa, Gurdagor, Lufasa, Andasa, Cimagri, Susisa, Xazengri, Seia, Rajjari, bolongri, Xurnas, Axunshin, Bangri, Teoisi, Sevisre, Didburir, Ecendi, Sijinti, Gelihurendi, Fei, Sureni, Jaeseni, Cuezian, Cadhinorian, Elkaril, Flaidish, Proto Eastern, Etodaole, Old Jeoiri, New Jeori, Naanese, Rafsami, Dhekhnami, Methuain and Giantish. 66. I'm missing about 34. Tell me them please.

Hasn't Zomp also mentioned Uytainese? (or something similar to that name)

vlaran of verduria · Post by **vlaran of verduria** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 4:38 pm

Ke :sh vareni, Nimoicu, Coruo, Sainor, Bucardo, Gunik, Kahinisa, Modern Monkhayu, Dowe, Utyainese and on the edge of the Verdurian dialect map, for a Murtani language it shows the end of a word, Nmuroikhu.
That brings my total up to 78

CountJordan · Post by **CountJordan** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:36 pm

How many langs are there on Earth? I think it is 6,000 (thats alot)! (This should be in linguistics but it seemed appropriate) How many langs are in your all's conworlds?

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:52 pm

butsuri wrote:
Rory wrote: At least wait until I become a Shayrom!
(Incidentally, the word is Shrayom.)

Bah. I blame my mini-dyslexia.

There are over 6000 (living) languages on Earth. But it really depends on how you distinguish a language: for example, do we count Danish and Swedish as separate languages? Do we count Italian and Scicilian as separate languages? And so on.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:38 pm

Not to mention Old Skourene, Middle Shinourine, Old Tzhuro, and Munkh?shi. And Kaino.

Post by **zompist** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:50 am

OK, I made a list of all the Almean languages and dialects I've named.

http://www.zompist.com/ethno.htm

Feel free to check it against the lists above and remind me of any I've missed.

Nuntar · Post by **Nuntar** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:31 am

So you weren't too far off... I make it 97, not counting dead languages. Like everyone else, I can't wait to see the day when all those are finished!

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:54 am

Ahribar wrote:So you weren't too far off... I make it 97, not counting dead languages. Like everyone else, I can't wait to see the day when all those are finished!

Given that 5 of the dead languages have a better attestation rate on Zompist.com than ANY of the Axunaic languages, I'd say we should count them.

Nuntar · Post by **Nuntar** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:14 am

But given that this started with Zomp saying "there's at least 2000 languages on the whole planet", it's clear that that figure doesn't include dead languages, or it would be thousands more.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:27 am

There is a slight error. The first <C> in Cadhinor (the language, not the family) is black, it should be red.

That is all.

Iscun · Post by **Iscun** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:03 am

Wow. Tombwe excites me the most of course. I don't expect a grammar in the near or distant future, but I still wonder what kind of language it is.

vlaran of verduria · Post by **vlaran of verduria** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:50 am

I'm hugely confused. Tombwe, Utyain, Belesao, Treng, Yamda, Nanese, Aldovian, Mei, Fei, Karimian, Demoshi,
Old T?uro, Old Skourene+, Ečendi,
Moun?un, Yewor?in, Tanneli?in, Ran?in, Bosan?ur, Caizu and Curiyan dont have a wordlist. They certainly shouldnt be put in the catagory of
OLD JEORI And contact me if u c a grammar of TEOSHI lying around nywhere