Verse:Lõis

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

History

Some points of divergence:

  • The Roman Empire expanded to Eastern Europe and Caucasus, hence influencing Azalic and Celtic languagesn but lost territory in Italy and Western Europe to the Corded Ware tribes.
  • The Siészal sacked the Tang Empire.

Languages

A-posteriori languages

  • IE
    • Celtic
      • Galatian (essentially Gaulish)
      • Goidelic: Old Irish (written in Fraktur, using a German-like spelling: as•bönd, nih•opënd 'he refuses')
    • Italic
      • Latin
        • Living Latin
        • Proto-Romance - Romance continuum
          • Quasi-Norman French
          • French minus GVS
          • etc.
    • Hellenic
    • Azalic
    • Quibbertoot
    • Qivattutannguaq
      • Qunngartutannguaq
      • Prisinitutannguaq
        • British Qivattu (Quasi-Estonian)
    • Indo-Iranian
      • Avestan
        • Middle Persian
          • L-Modern Persian
  • 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
      • Old Tyrith
  • Mon-Khmer
  • Hmong-Mien

Invented language families

Sacred/liturgical languages