User:Chrysophylax/Phaselic
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I'm thinking of making the origin story of my consemites as colonialists from Ugarit who settled in what is historically the city of Phaselis in Lycia, Southeastern Anatolia. From NUWP, I gather that Phaselis was founded by colonists from Rhodes in 700 BCE. I was thinking of Ugarit colonizing the area by Phaselis ca 1390 BCE, building a harbour town to facilitate maritime trade between Ugarit, Crete, Alashiya.
By mixing in some Lycians and Hittites I could add some fun loans. It would also open up for some of the ships which Ammurapi, the last king of Ugarit, mentions having sent to Lycia to fight of the Sea People invasion, reinforcing my con-Phaselis with people from Ugarit either by defection or by retreat once news of the collapse of Ugarit had spread. In the end, I can imagine the Ugaritic Phaselis ending up under the influence of the Dorian hexapolis and having the language die out as Rhodians take-over ~ 700 BCE. This would give me ~ 690 years to develop the colony, of which ~200 years would be shared with Ugarit at its golden age.—Chrysophylax, Constructed Languages @ Facebook
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“Phaselic” inherited the Ugaritic vowel system of the Proto-Semitic three short vowels a, i, u, and their long counterparts, augmented with ē and ō derived from the diphthongs *ay and *aw.
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