138,759
edits
mNo edit summary |
|||
Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
Linguistic areas: | Linguistic areas: | ||
* | *Talma (head-initial, more analytic) | ||
**Nurian area | **Nurian area | ||
***Aspiration and gemination | ***Aspiration and gemination | ||
***Small vowel system with palatalization | ***Small vowel system with palatalization | ||
***More synthetic | ***More synthetic | ||
**Continental | **Continental Talman Linguistic Area | ||
***Split-ergativity | ***Split-ergativity | ||
*** l vocalizes into a uvular or pharyngealized resonant | *** l vocalizes into a uvular or pharyngealized resonant | ||
Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
**Head-final/"Altaic" grammar | **Head-final/"Altaic" grammar | ||
===Modern | ===Modern Talman languages=== | ||
*Talmic | *Talmic | ||
**Eevo | **Eevo | ||
Line 218: | Line 218: | ||
==Notable figures== | ==Notable figures== | ||
*pseudo-'''Rocēda''' - group of ancient | *pseudo-'''Rocēda''' - group of ancient Talman mathematicians, authors of the ''Brøøhad Manuscript'' which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra | ||
*Θīcot '''Atiȝadaedā''' - Adutsib astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion | *Θīcot '''Atiȝadaedā''' - Adutsib astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion | ||
*Jissarāhim = Windermere geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation | *Jissarāhim = Windermere geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation | ||
Line 227: | Line 227: | ||
*Fosen '''fat-Tazrir''' - Windermere chemist, physicist | *Fosen '''fat-Tazrir''' - Windermere chemist, physicist | ||
*ʔAmmuħ '''far-Rothâbh''' - Windermere geometer, physicist and engineer | *ʔAmmuħ '''far-Rothâbh''' - Windermere geometer, physicist and engineer | ||
After two centuries of the | After two centuries of the Talman Dark Age brought about by a series of natural disasters and plagues... | ||
*Yakhef '''Batzaħ''' - Windermere physician who verified germ theory of disease | *Yakhef '''Batzaħ''' - Windermere physician who verified germ theory of disease | ||
*Ngeysi '''Beȝnof''' - Windermere physicist and mathematician who invented calculus | *Ngeysi '''Beȝnof''' - Windermere physicist and mathematician who invented calculus |
edits