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Post-singularity utopian sci-fi setting created by User:IlL based on an Earth timeline similar to ours
Todo
Use Shalaian names instead of Germanic names for post-Ascent names
In-universe conlangs
A-posteriori languages
These are the Earth language families we know and love, which developed on Earth before the Ascent.
- IE
- Italic
- Latin
- Romlang continuum
- Liturgical Francian
- Something Modern French-esque
- Latin
- Ancient Greek
- Liturgical Greek (passed through GVS-esque shifts)
- Celtic
- Brythonic?
- Old Irish
- Judeo-Gaelic (called "Yiddish" in universe)
- Vertlandic (something with a pseudo-Salish aesthetic)
- (something maximally un-Germanic)
- Riphean
- English
- Indo-Aryan
- Persian
- Another IA language (source of karma)
- Liturgical language of Buddhism (vaguely Finnic-inspired)
- Italic
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- Hebrew
- Aramaic
- A-Arabic
- Egyptian
- Semitic
Hebrew
A-Tiberian Hebrew is the same as ours but with ejective instead of pharyngealized
The standard and most commonly taught Hebrew accent is the same as the Lõisian "Revived Holy Land" accent (see Verse:Lõis/Hebrew).
Vertlandic Jews (called "Sephardim" in-universe) should have an original accent, with
- begadkefat acts on /b d k p/ → /v ð x f/; /g ɣ/ are always [ŋ]
- glottal reinforcement and/or preaspiration
- segol = ə, pataħ = QG = a, tsere = əy, ħolam = əw, ħiriq = i, QQ = shuruq = u
Sample (Dror Yikra)
Hebrew | Standard | Judeo-Gaelic | Vertlandic |
---|---|---|---|
דְּרוֹר יִקְרָא לְבֵן עִם בַּת
וְיִנְצָרְכֶם כְּמוֹ בָבַת |
[dɹœɹ jiʔˈkɹo ləˈvɛn (ʔ)im baθ] |
[dəˈɾuɾ jiˈkʰɹo ləˈveən ʔim bas] |
[dəˈrəwr jiʔˈkra ləˈvəjn ʕim bat] |