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Distribution of language families in Unbegotten's Europe

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

Characters

Pre-Ascent

Edna Ashe

• Alias: Neria Verner (Shalaian name)
• Redhead, conlanger, programmer, Riphean-Welvingtonian, trans girl

Rebecca McItsock (placeholder)

• Interests before "the Calamity": programming, microtonality
• McItsock is from Judeo-Gaelic mac Yițchoc (analogous to Isaacson in our world)
• As a microtonalist, her music is more inspired by Jewish liturgical chants and songs.

In-universe conlangs

Conlangs by Edna

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

A-posteriori languages

• IE
  • Italic
    • Latin
      • Italian
      • Zhendic (very conservative Romlang, v > ʒ / #_{e i})
• Classical Hivatish
  • Modern Hivatish
  • Ancient Greek
    • Liturgical Greek (passed through shifts to make it look pre-GVS)
    • Elicá (most populous Hellenic lang)
    • Ašča
  • Celtic
    • Brythonic
    • Old Irish
      • Alt-Irish
      • Judeo-Gaelic (called "Yiddish" in universe)
    • Verthanic (pseudo-Lushootseed)
  • Riphic (something maximally un-Germanic; this will not be detailed further)
    • Riphean
    • English
  • Balto-Ilitho-Slavic (called "Ilitho-Thuric" in universe)
    • Thurish
    • Ilithian
  • Indo-Aryan
    • Persian
  • 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")
• Sino-Tibetan
  • Tibetan
  • 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 and Germanic do not exist.

Sprachbünde

Northern European

Wyrhinysko etc.

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 an Ilithian-derived 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
• Neria Verner (Néria Vérnr): 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