Fargulyn languages
| Fargulyn | |
|---|---|
| Created by | – |
| Geographic distribution | Northeastern Márusúturon |
| Linguistic classification | One of Calémere's primary language families |
| Proto-language | Proto-Fargulyn |
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The Fargulyn languages (Sky.: Fargulyn gjalyn) are a Calémerian language family spoken mostly on the continent of Márusúturon.
The Fargulyn-speaking area includes most of the northeastern part of the continent, whose dominant language is by far the most spoken of the Fargulyn family, Skyrdagor. In Greater Skyrdagor, aside from Skyrdagor itself, various other Fargulyn languages (of branches not too distant from Skyrdagor) are spoken; the rest of the family is mainly spoken in the northeastern taiga - Aksalbor, Arkjatar, and parts of Askand in Greater Skyrdagor; the Chlouvānem diocese of Kēhamijāṇa; the Union of New Égélonía; and the inhabited parts of the Lalla Kēhamyuñca. There are, furthermore, Fargulyn minorities across the northern Inquisition and a historical presence in its northeast, as well as in Qualdomailor (where the Fargulyn Urheimat is thought to have been) and in Brono. Finally, the geographical outlier is Rǣrumi, spoken by the formerly semi-nomadic Rǣrai people, historically moving through the Lāmiejāya-Lāmberah plain, nowadays settled in the Chlouvānem diocese of Rǣrajāṇai.
There are five recognized sub-families of Fargulyn languages:
- the Karaskyr branch, including the Skyrdagorian languages as well as a few scattered languages in Qualdomailor (Keleb), Brono (Yumsur and moribund Kylhez), and the northern Inquisition (Kareyumi in southern Dahelijaiṭa, Barājyumi and Šoltinumi in Saṃhayolah, and Lugrumi in Maichlahåryan);
- the Balmud branch, spoken mostly in eastern Greater Skyrdagor (notably in Cselsengeg, Byrzsysztav, and Ajversziv), also including Rǣrumi;
- the Zilmab branch, nowadays only surviving in central-southwestern Kēhamijāṇa and in the Komzolyn/Kamurjāram mountains on the Chlouvānem-New Égélonian border, but formerly spoken along the Embranas river (NE Inquisition) and in present-day southern New Égélonía;
- the Polinic branch, spoken on the coast and in the coastal ranges of New Égélonía; the pre-Chlouvānem language of Aratāram island was also likely Polinic, but the only surviving fragments can't show more than a broader Fargulyn origin;
- the Narolic branch, scattered across the northern taiga in Arkjatar, Aksalbor, Askand, Kēhamijāṇa, New Égélonía, and the Lalla Kēhamyuñca. The Narolic-speaking Oldob people of the Oldobian Gulf at the northwestern end of the Lalla Kēhamyuñca are considered the northernmost native human people of Calémere.
Proto-Fargulyn speakers had various contacts with both Proto-Samaidulic and Proto-Lahob speakers, so that there are various common words – as common as "son" or "to sleep" – that have cognates in Samaidulic or Lahob languages.
Vocabulary
| Proto-Fargulyn | Karaskyr | Balmud | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyrdagor | Kolypen (northern Blm.) |
Kigot (northern Blm.) |
Rǣrumi | |
| *laq'ərnɒz "man" | lekarn [ɮɛkɒ˞n] | tauro | dawran | ræ:æron |
| *kikelwe "woman" | hjezla [(c)çe͡ɛːɮa] | khširē | kišrai | kixroë |
| *zlapa "tree" | zlab [zɮab] | suvau | suwaw | šo:ap |
| *mēq'i "water" | mikje [mic͡çe] | mai | mai | mær |
| *q'əwəjlak "hand, five" | kivlah [kʊɪ̯ɮax] "five" |
vairo | wair | gojrog |
| *wepn "to sleep" | vam [vam] | vau | wew | web |
| *kamɨjuq "son" | humyg [xumoː] | khešu | kež | komžu |
| *lekene "first, front-" | lehjyn [ɮɛ͡eçɯn] | tēni | deini | rešn |