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Lõis

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Lõis (from the Tyrith name for 'Earth') is an alternate-history timeline for Earth.

History

Some points of divergence:

Hellenistic Greece spread to Central Asia and East India, giving us Kwenya and Heleasic.
The Roman Empire expanded to Greece, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, hence influencing Azalic and Celtic languages, but lost territory in Italy and Western Europe to the Corded Ware peoples, and in Eastern Europe they lost out to Celts eventually.
The Siészal sacked China at the end of the Tang Dynasty, ending Dynastic China.

Languages

A-posteriori languages

IE
- Celtic
  - Gallo-Brythonic
    - Galatian
  - Goidelic: Old Irish (written in Fraktur, using a German-like spelling: as·bönd, nih·opënd 'he refuses')
    - Judeo-Gaelic (Ăn Yidiș)
  - Nurian (spoken in Nuristan)
- Habesīnan (with "Corded Ware" influence)
- Italic
  - Latin
    - Living Latin
    - Proto-Romance - Romance continuum
      - Quasi-Norman French
      - French minus GVS
      - etc.
- Hellenic
  - Ancient Greek
    - Quasi-Modern Greek
    - Heleasic
    - Kwenya
- Azalic
  - English
- Quibbertoot
- Hivatish
  - Qunngartutannguaq
  - Prisinitutannguaq
    - British Qivattu (Quasi-Estonian)
- Indo-Iranian
  - Avestan
    - Middle Persian
      - L-Modern Persian
- Scythian (tentative name)
  - a grimmlang (minority language in the Levantine sprachbund)
  - a "tentum" language with a sound change palatal -> retroflex
Semitic
- Northwest Semitic
  - North Semitic
    - Old Togarmite
      - Anorite
      - Togarmite
    - Canaanite
      - Verse:Lõis/Hebrew: Biblical Hebrew
        Mishnaic Hebrew
      - Ancient Cubrite
        Cubrite
  - Aramaic
    - Modern Aramaic languages
- Indian Semitic
  - Conservative Semlang with dual and lots of cases
- East Semitic
  - Akkadian
  - Far East Semitic
Sino-Tibetan
- Tibetic
  - L-Tibetan (quasi-Amdo/Modern Greek/Elvish)
    - example: bkra shis bde legs -> vra šir vde lêr
- Old Chinese
  - Quasi-Sino-Japanese with Middle Chinese readings
    - (Sino-Siészal)
  - Old Tyrith
    - Tyrith
Mon-Khmer
Hmong-Mien
Inuit
- British (Welshified Greenlandic) Inuit
- American Inuit

Invented language families

Camalic
- Indus Valley (substrate for Sanskrit)
  - Padmanābha
- An Bhlaoighne
  - Modern An Bhlaoighne
- L-Arabic
Euro-Harappan
- Corded Ware
  - Italian Corded Ware (Toda-esque, almost no phonotactics)
  - Northern Corded Ware
    - "Scandinavian" with a Sámi and Old English aesthetic
  - Eastern Corded Ware (with mutations)
- Harappan
- a family spoken in South India
Baden languages
Harappan
Tbaic (agglutinative Southeast Asian family)
- Romanian gib
- Philippine
- Kirkkaselhümb (an isolate)
- something spoken in Oceania
Pandoga (a South Indian isolate)
Palkhan
Kodistian
Siészal
Xeno-Mandarin

Sacred/liturgical languages

Greek
Middle Persian
Avestan
Old Tyrith
Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew
Ancient Cubrite
Aramaic
Old Togarmite
Classical Nahuatl
Qunngartutannguaq
Khuamnisht