Verse:Lõis/Sketchbook

Sprachbünde

British

• Phonological features inspired by Proto-Inuit -> Greenlandic sound changes
• Evidentiality
• (Split) ergativity

Paleo-Iranian

Retroflex consonants

South India and Southeast Asia

No retroflexes? Pandoga and Palkhan would be typologically unusual

Ethio-IE and Ethio-Semitic

Habesīnan is an Indo-European language, spoken in Ethiopia in Lõis. In modern times it's mostly used as a liturgical and classical language, with the majority of the population speaking Togarmite.

Paḷkhan

Inspired by Kannada and Marathi

Some nativized (tadbhava) Sanskrit words

• ṇnima "full moon" <- *puṇnima <- Sanskrit pūrṇimā
• pyaḷda "king" <- "noble" <- ati-vṛddha "overgrown" (c.f. Old English æþel)
• mhoṇa "monk" <- śramaṇa

Proto-Palkhan -> Palkhan has an almost consistent stress shift to the second syllable causing the first syllable to get elided; this creates the retroflex-dental clusters and wreaks havoc with the morphology if there happen to be prefixes

Palkhan borrows more from Sanskrit (even some derivational affixes) than Pandoga

Indian grammatical tradition

Includes historical linguistics? they may study the relationship between Greek and Sanskrit and develop a deep orthography that fits both (that could be Panini's claim to fame in Lõis!)

Polish Azalic

Inspired by Scots and Yiddish