The Other Lanaguages of Almea

ConlangArtist · Post by **ConlangArtist** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:52 pm

I know you are currently working on Flaid grammer Zomp... But I was quite curious as to ask if you will be working on langauges that are not derived from Proto-Eastern? I dont know if I am right by sayingPproto-Eastern.. But I did see that language tree... and I was curious if you will get aournd to making those other languages?

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:06 pm

Hey, Kebreni, Wedei, and Elkaril are already up!

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:22 pm

Well, I'm more interested in seeing some more languages from Proto-Eastern. Maybe something other than Central or Cuezi tongues (though I would like to see Sarroc), I want to see the more exotic languages! (like Xurnese, and the Chia Sha languages).

Iscun · Post by **Iscun** » Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:37 pm

Or Uytaian(sp?). God knows what that'll be like. I'm sure Z isn't even thinking of any of the extra-Erel?en languages now.

ConlangArtist · Post by **ConlangArtist** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 10:35 pm

I was talking about Chia Sha

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Sat Mar 22, 2003 11:56 pm

ConlangArtist wrote:I was talking about Chia Sha

Wow, this post has a really weird vibe to it.

Thomas Winwood · Post by **Thomas Winwood** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 1:52 pm

ConlangArtist wrote:I was talking about Chia Sha

Um... there's no such language as Chia-Sha. There's Chia languages and Sha languages. Have you actually looked at the language tree?

Post by **zompist** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:34 pm

Someday I do want to get back to Lufasha. It should be interesting, turning an inflecting language into an isolating (and tonal) one.

Someone once suggested that the Chia-Sha languages could be a coequal branch with the rest of Eastern... I really like this idea, though it means even more work: reconstructing Proto-Eastern-Chia-Sha and deriving both PE and Chia-Sha from it.

The other interesting thing with Chia-Sha is that the speakers have had a long odyssey trekking through Erelae, so they will have picked up words from all over. The surface differences from the rest of PE are strong enough that the Verdurian reconstructors don't even suspect that they're related. (Well, and they can't read the only extent grammars.)

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 6:06 pm

ze Z wrote:Someone once suggested that the Chia-Sha languages could be a coequal branch with the rest of Eastern... I really like this idea, though it means even more work: reconstructing Proto-Eastern-Chia-Sha and deriving both PE and Chia-Sha from it.

To further that idea, it could be a linguistic contraversy. "Was Chia-Sha coequal with PIE or was it one of its daughter languages?" Shifting from those who believe it to be co-equal, a daughter language, or not even related. Just an afterthought.

Aidan · Post by **Aidan** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 1:57 am

Nikolai wrote:To further that idea, it could be a linguistic contraversy. "Was Chia-Sha coequal with PIE or was it one of its daughter languages?"

Whoops, Nikolai, you mean Proto-Eastern, not Proto-Indo-European, gotta watch those habits

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:15 pm

Aidan wrote:Whoops, Nikolai, you mean Proto-Eastern, not Proto-Indo-European, gotta watch those habits

Mea culpa, amice (translation, my bad, B.) Most of my typing errors are caused by muscle memory (My hands force that I in there...yea...

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