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:

  • 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')
      • 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
    • Azalic
    • 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
  • 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
  • Inuit
    • British (Welshified Greenlandic) Inuit
    • American Inuit

Invented language families

  • Camalic
  • 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)
  • Pandoga (a South Indian isolate)
  • Palkhan
  • Kodistian
  • Siészal
  • Xeno-Mandarin

Sacred/liturgical languages