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The intent of Pictish is to have a non-Celtic language being in a sprachbund with the Celtic languages without being too obviously Celtic in aesthetics. The main inspiration was Jörg Rhiemeier's article in the League of Lost Languages on the British Isles Linguistic Area. The main part of the phonology was influenced by Valarin Quenya and Láadan. Irish and Breton influenced Pictish initial consonant mutation. | The intent of Pictish is to have a non-Celtic language being in a sprachbund with the Celtic languages without being too obviously Celtic in aesthetics. The main inspiration was Jörg Rhiemeier's article in the League of Lost Languages on the British Isles Linguistic Area. The main part of the phonology was influenced by Valarin Quenya and Láadan. Irish and Breton influenced Pictish initial consonant mutation. | ||
Pictish is not the historical Pictish which is currently thought to be a Brythonic language allied to Welsh, Cornish and Breton. This is an ahistorical, fictional Pictish which was spoken alongside historical Pictish by a Thurse ethnic group. | |||
The Thurse, or European Pygmies, are a fictional phenotype of Europeans who are believed to have originated in the Hercynian forest zone of Central Europe before spreading all over the continent. They are short in stature and are particularly known for their striped epidermes. They speak a variety of languages, some of which are shared with other Europeans, some of which, such as Pictish, are not. Pictish is a language isolate spoken by some 11,000 Picts in eastern Scotland. | |||
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