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An alt-hist setting created by [[User:IlL]] based on an Earth timeline similar to ours. Inspired in part by [[Verse:Lõis]].
==Todo==
==Characters==
=== Edna Ashe ===
*Alias: Neria Verner (Shalaian name)
*Redhead, conlanger, programmer, Riphean-Welvingtonian, trans girl
=== Rebecca McItsock (placeholder) ===
* Interests before "the Calamity": programming, microtonality
* McItsock is from Judeo-Gaelic mac Yițchoc (analogous to Isaacson in our world)
* As a microtonalist, her music is more inspired by Jewish liturgical chants and songs.
==In-universe conlangs==
===Conlangs by Edna===
*[[Idavic languages]]
*Some languages in our timeline, e.g. German
*[[Windermere]]?
==A-posteriori languages==
*IE
**Italic
***Latin
****Italian
****[[Zhendic]] (very conservative Romlang, v > ʒ / #_{e i})
* [[Hivatish|Classical Hivatish]]
** [[Hivatish/Modern|Modern Hivatish]]
**Ancient Greek
***Liturgical Greek (passed through shifts to make it look pre-GVS)
*** [[Elicá]] (most populous Hellenic lang)
*** [[Ašča]]
**Celtic
***Brythonic
***Old Irish
****Alt-Irish
****[[Judeo-Gaelic]] (called "Yiddish" in universe)
***[[Verthanic]] (pseudo-Lushootseed)
**Riphic (something maximally un-Germanic; this will not be detailed further)
***[[Riphean]]
***English
**Balto-Ilitho-Slavic (called "Ilitho-Thuric" in universe)
***[[Thurish]]
***[[Ilithian]]
**Indo-Aryan
***Persian
**Liturgical language of Buddhism (vaguely Hungarian-inspired)
*Afro-Asiatic
**Semitic
***Canaanite
****Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew
****[[Cubrite]]
***Aramaic
***[[Verse:AETHER/A-Arabic|A-Arabic]]
**Egyptian
***A-Coptic ("What if Egyptian became English Hebrew")
*Sino-Tibetan
**Tibetan
**Old Chinese
***Middle Chinese
****Pseudo-Icelandic (northern China)
****Pseudo-Old English (southern China)
*Japanese (Same as ours except no Sanskrit or German loans)
*Salish
**Lushootseed
Uralic and Germanic do not exist.
==Sprachbünde==
===Central European===
===Northern European===
Wyrhinysko etc.
===Italian===
Cubrite, Ăn Yidiș and Riphean
===North African===
Verthanic, A-Arabic and A-Coptic
==A-priori families==
==Religions==
The following religions remain similar:
*Christianity
**Catholicism
***Protestantism
**Orthodox
*Nestorians (A-Arabic and Egyptian)?
*(Rabbinic) Judaism
**Orthodox (Modern Orthodox, Hasidic and Haredi)
**Reform
*Buddhism (using an [[Ilithian]]-derived language)
==Retconned historical figures==
*Emmy Pafnoether (pa(h)v-NOH-thər; A-Coptic: /pavnoɨθə~pavnø:θə/, from pꜣy-pꜣ-nṯr): Riphean, of A-Coptic descent
*Ramanujan (Ramanuǰən): [[Verthanic]]
*Neria Verner (Néria Vérnr): A [[Shalaian]] linguist in Edna's conworld; discoverer of Verner's law in the Shalaic branch of Idavic. Also one of Edna's aliases.
==Cities==
===Former Federation cities===
*Pacific Republic
**Biafria
**Seattle
**Portland
*Eastern Commonwealth
**Welvington

Latest revision as of 01:03, 10 May 2023