I like my Yhat and was thinking of developing it a little more. It needs a bigger vocabulary. At the time I first did it I was hurrying to get stuff for the relay posted. The previous generations did not give me much, and while I borrowed and compounded a few new words I did not spend much time at it. With the new Adata vocabulary I could imagine a bunch of learned borrowing from the old texts, perhaps as part of a religious revival or something.
I am fine with this. I didn't have anything in the way of geography or history in mind, or even know there was a map, when I originally worked on the language. Yhat comes from an unusual, although attested, dialect of E'at. I would probably be fine with most other locations and backgrounds for them as well.Radius Solis wrote: Aθáta, descended largely from the dialects of Hiphago and Radias, came to be spoken in the Tjakori valley and eventually to dominate there. Later, by E'át times, conflict with the Xsali prompted the latter to invade the Tjakori valley once again, deporting thousands upon thousands of residents, resulting in a diaspora of E'át speakers throughout the Xsali empire. Over the next couple generations the E'át speakers tended to congregate in clusters in various points of the Xsali Empire. Most of these clusters later lost their languages in favor of surrounding dominant ones, but one that didn't was on Xsali's far eastern border, on or near the east coast. The variety of E'át spoken there evolved into Yhát. Erhadzy is descended from the Yhát speakers who migrated to Lesan; Öhat, from the Yhát speakers who stayed.
I had envisioned a conservative branch of Yhat, which did not develop as Ohat. I was imagining a mountain valley, but if they are to be coastal, an island community could work as well. Somewhere a bit backwards, isolationist, and agricultural, where the old ways and pattterns of speech were kept alive.
Where does Yhat and its generation fall in terms of development? Zhen Lin was talking about nanotechnology and brain implants for Erhadzy, while earlier stuff talks about city-states and barbarian hordes.
Naidda looks interesting. I like the participant marking and animacy heirarchy. I could be interested in developing a descendant.zompist wrote: -- Is the intent to fill out the Edastean tree more? Or do descendants of Adata largely take over the subcontinent? (Naturally I'd like to see something descend from Faralo. But logically the high-density Naidda region should have descendants too.)
Is anything known about Ngauro?
