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| | '''NOTICE: Documentation of Mwail has moved to [https://mwail.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page Miraheze].''' |
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| '''Angai''' (/ˈɑːŋgaɪ/ from Aíkaì ''Ānka{{cdb}}ì'' /a⁵{{ng}}³ka¹i²/) is an alternate history Earth setting prominently featuring highly tonal languages. (The point of divergence from our timeline is some point between the emergence of modern humans and Out of Africa, so we still have all Earth species including humans, but today's human languages are from completely different families) | | '''Mwail''' (/mʷail/ [mʷaiɬ], Ernish for 'world, Earth') is an alternate history Earth setting being created by Inthar and Praveen. (The point of divergence from our timeline is some point between the emergence of modern humans and Out of Africa, so we still have all Earth species including humans, but today's human languages are from completely different families) |
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| == Team == | | == Team == |
| * Inthar: Timeline 1, mainly Thean language, history, and culture | | * Inthar: Ernish, Proto-Erno-Kawenic |
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| | == Calendar == |
| | The calendar used is the Mwail Enlightenment calendar, where year 0 corresponds to the year when the number 0 was invented in Mwail India. |
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| | Out-of-universe, it was arbitrarily decided so that 2025 is sociopolitically similar to our CE 2025. |
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| == Languages == | | == Languages of Mwail == |
| * Qwbmwdqwg: A tritonal root language with 11 lexical root tones and 1 neutral tone
| | By number of speakers (2025): |
| * Classical Aíkaì
| | # Ernish (Irenesian): 1.5 billion |
| ** Neo-Aíkaì languages
| | # Dhasrawita (Irenesian): 1.2 billion |
| * Irenesian languages
| | # Dosubian (Irenesian): 990 million |
| ** Kawenic
| | # Thean (Theic): 975 million |
| *** Quququqquq: A language with only /k u a/ and two tones
| | # Fursfop: 650 million |
| **** Uwulang gib
| | # Lhabhdweni (Irenesian): 420 million |
| *** Tucootka
| | # Wyacker (Pulchric): 290 million |
| *** Tuatu'yat
| | # Séiseal (Qohtic): 260 million |
| *** Kawenyen
| | === Mwail Eurasia === |
| *** Sikorian
| | * [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Irenesian languages|Irenesian languages]] |
| ** Ernic
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| *** Ernish (''Auzinim'' /ɐʉʐɪnɪm/): One main language of the Angaian Enlightenment
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| *** Whyastian (''Hwiwjaosdia'' /fivjaostia/)
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| ** Lhabhdwenic
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| *** Lhabhdweni | |
| *** Dhasrawita
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| ** Hirbic
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| *** Len!ir
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| * Theic | | * Theic |
| ** Classical Thean | | ** Classical Thean |
| ** A Tlingit-like language | | ** A Tlingit-like language |
| * Old Æ | | * [[{{FULLPAGENAME}}/Keric languages|Keric languages]] |
| * Keric
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| ** Ker
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| ** Old Bri (A language with 6 initial phonations)
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| ** Old Gloob
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| ** Old Danishmandi
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| * Bjeheondian languages (areal)
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| ** Anbirese
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| ** Dårle
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| * Vylmic | | * Vylmic |
| ** Vylman | | ** Qocwane |
| ** Angai Iranian | | ** Mwail Iranian |
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| | === Mwail Australia === |
| | * Anbirese |
| | * Dårle |
| | === Mwail Sub-Saharan Africa === |
| * Wyacker | | * Wyacker |
| * Séiseal | | * Séiseal |
| * Fursfop
| | === Mwail Americas === |
| * Flei
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| * Nuaplw | | * Nuaplw |
| * Ryooteq | | * Ryooteq |
| * Thannayut | | * Thannayut |
| * Strendian | | * Strendian |
| === Angai Papuan languages === | | * Fursfop |
| * Ditab: Tonal min-Tiberian Hebrew. ''Not'' a liturgical language. | | === Mwail Papua === |
| | * Ditab |
| * Toki Ike | | * Toki Ike |
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| == Tentative locations of cultures ==
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| * Irenesia: Middle East, Silk Road, Siberia, Korea, Japan, northern North America
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| ** Kawenic: Korea, Japan, northern North America
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| ** Ernic: Sakhalin, northern North America
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| ** Lhabhdweni: Orchid Island
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| ** Dhasrawita: India, Indonesia, Malaysia
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| ** Hirbic: Philippines
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| * Theasphere (Thean, Æ, Keric, Vylman): Europe, North Africa, maybe eastern North America?
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| * Flei: India before they get conquered by Irenesians
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| * Qwbmwdqwg: ?
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| * Aíkaì: China and Tibet
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| * Doremi: Mainland Southeast Asia
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| * Séiseal and Wyacker: Sub-Saharan Africa
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| * Sfipsurtopic world: Mesoamerica and western South America
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| * Bjeheond: Australia
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| * Ryooteq, Nuaplw, Thannayut: North America
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| As in our timeline's Earth, Papua-New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse area
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| == Future timelines ==
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| * No human extinction scenarios (Full disclosure: I care more about preventing the worst non-extinction outcomes than I do about preventing extinction)
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| [[Category:Angai|*]]
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