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An alt-hist setting created by User:IlL based on an Earth timeline similar to ours. Inspired in part by Verse:Lõis.

In-universe conlangs

Conlangs by Edna

• Idavic languages
• Some languages in our timeline, e.g. German

A-posteriori languages

• IE
  • Italic
    • Latin
      • Romlang continuum
      • Italian (with an Icelandic accent)
        • spaghetti all'arrabbiata /spa'ɣehti aɬ:a(voiceless r):ap:i'ata/
      • Liturgical Francian
        • Something Modern French-esque
  • Ancient Greek
    • Liturgical Greek (passed through shifts to make it look pre-GVS)
  • Celtic
    • Brythonic
    • Old Irish
      • Judeo-Gaelic (called "Yiddish" in universe)
    • Verthanic (pseudo-Lushootseed)
  • Riphic (something maximally un-Germanic; this will not be detailed further)
    • Riphean
    • English
  • Indo-Aryan
    • Persian
    • Another IA language (source of karma)
  • Liturgical language of Buddhism (vaguely Hungarian-inspired)
• Afro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • Canaanite
      • Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew
      • Cubrite
    • Aramaic
    • A-Arabic
  • Egyptian
    • A-Coptic ("What if Egyptian became English Hebrew")
• Old Chinese
  • Middle Chinese
    • Pseudo-Icelandic (northern China)
    • Pseudo-Old English (southern China)
• Japanese (Same as ours except no Sanskrit or German loans)
• Salish
  • Lushootseed

Uralic, Balto-Slavic, and Germanic do not exist.

Sprachbünde

Italian

Cubrite, Ăn Yidiș and Riphean

North African

Verthanic, A-Arabic and A-Coptic

Religions

The following religions remain similar:

• Christianity
  • Catholicism
    • Protestantism
  • Orthodox
• Nestorians (A-Arabic and Egyptian)?
• (Rabbinic) Judaism
  • Orthodox (Modern Orthodox, Hasidic and Haredi)
  • Reform
• Buddhism (using a different language)

Retconned historical figures

• Emmy Pafnoether (pa(h)v-NOH-thər; A-Coptic: /pavnoɨθə~pavnø:θə/, from pꜣy-pꜣ-nṯr): Riphean, of A-Coptic descent
• Ramanujan (Ramanuǰən): Verthanic
• Verner (Vérner): A Shalaian linguist in Edna's conworld; discoverer of Verner's law in the Shalaic branch of Idavic. Also one of Edna's aliases.

Cities

Former Federation cities

• Pacific Republic
  • Biafria
  • Seattle
  • Portland
• Eastern Commonwealth
  • Welvington