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| [[File:Unbegotten_Europe.gif|thumbnail|Distribution of language families in Unbegotten's Europe]]
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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]].
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| ==Todo==
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| ==Characters==
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| === Pre-Ascent ===
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| ==== Neria Verner ====
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| *Redhead, conlanger, programmer, Riphean-Welvingtonian, trans girl
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| ==== Rebecca McItsock (placeholder) ====
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| * Interests before "the Calamity": programming, microtonality
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| * As a microtonalist, her music is more inspired by Jewish liturgical chants and songs.
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| === Post-Ascent ===
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| ==In-universe conlangs==
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| ===Conlangs by Edna===
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| *[[Idavic languages]]
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| *Some languages in our timeline, e.g. German
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| *[[Windermere]]?
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| ==A-posteriori languages==
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| *IE
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| **Italic
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| ***Latin
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| ****Italian
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| ****[[Zhendic]] (very conservative Romlang, v > ʒ / #_{e i})
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| * [[Hivatish|Classical Hivatish]]
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| ** [[Hivatish/Modern|Modern Hivatish]]
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| **Ancient Greek
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| ***Liturgical Greek (passed through shifts to make it look pre-GVS)
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| *** [[Elicá]] (most populous Hellenic lang)
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| *** [[Ašča]]
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| **Celtic
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| ***Brythonic
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| ***Old Irish
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| ****Alt-Irish
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| ****[[Judeo-Gaelic]] (called "Yiddish" in universe)
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| ***[[Verthanic]] (pseudo-Lushootseed)
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| **Riphic (something maximally un-Germanic; this will not be detailed further)
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| ***[[Riphean]]
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| ***English
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| **Balto-Ilitho-Slavic (called "Ilitho-Thuric" in universe)
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| ***[[Thurish]]
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| ***[[Ilithian]]
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| **Indo-Aryan
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| ***Persian
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| **Liturgical language of Buddhism (vaguely Hungarian-inspired)
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| *Afro-Asiatic
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| **Semitic
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| ***Canaanite
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| ****Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew
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| ****[[Cubrite]]
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| ***Aramaic
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| ***[[Verse:AETHER/A-Arabic|A-Arabic]]
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| **Egyptian
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| ***A-Coptic ("What if Egyptian became English Hebrew")
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| *Sino-Tibetan
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| **Tibetan
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| **Old Chinese
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| ***Middle Chinese
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| ****Pseudo-Icelandic (northern China)
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| ****Pseudo-Old English (southern China)
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| *Japanese (Same as ours except no Sanskrit or German loans)
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| *Salish
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| **Lushootseed
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| Uralic and Germanic do not exist.
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| ==Sprachbünde==
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| ===Central European===
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| ===Northern European===
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| Wyrhinysko etc.
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| ===Italian===
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| Cubrite, Ăn Yidiș and Riphean
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| ===North African===
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| Verthanic, A-Arabic and A-Coptic
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| ==A-priori families==
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| ==Religions==
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| The following religions remain similar:
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| *Christianity
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| **Catholicism
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| ***Protestantism
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| **Orthodox
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| *Nestorians (A-Arabic and Egyptian)?
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| *(Rabbinic) Judaism
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| **Orthodox (Modern Orthodox, Hasidic and Haredi)
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| **Reform
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| *Buddhism (using an [[Ilithian]]-derived language)
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| ==Retconned historical figures==
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| *Emmy Pafnoether (pa(h)v-NOH-thər; A-Coptic: /pavnoɨθə~pavnø:θə/, from pꜣy-pꜣ-nṯr): Riphean, of A-Coptic descent
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| *Ramanujan (Ramanuǰən): [[Verthanic]]
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| *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.
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| ==Cities==
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| ===Former Federation cities===
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| *Pacific Republic
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| **Biafria
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| **Seattle
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| **Portland
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| *Eastern Commonwealth
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| **Welvington
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