AHC: No Surviving Chinese Languages

Your challenge, should you come to accept it, is, with a POD no earlier than 400 AD, produce a world in which the Chinese Language Family is completely extinct. Your scenario can include any of the folowing.

1) Northern China becomes Mongolian, Manchu and Korean
2) Use of any of the rivals of Chinese, Formosan(and Mainland Austronesian languages), Thai, Kadai, Miao and Tibetan etc.
 
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I say impossible. By 400 AD they weren't exactly going anywhere. I can't think of any PoD that could possibly get their language to disappear by this time. Mongols and Manchus were assimilated by Han culture after they invaded. And there's not even any invading groups in the south, let alone any who'd have enough influence to change the language by this time. Besides, Mongol or Manchu culture coming to domination even in just northern China is ASB anyways, let alone Tibetan or the others.
 
A strain of Black Plague like that from Years of Rice and Salt emerges while the plague is still in China in the early 1300's, killing 90% of the population of East Asia.
 
OK, let's see a third. Maybe 'AHC: No surviving American languages?'

Actually, that would be pretty easy, come to think.
 
OK, let's see a third. Maybe 'AHC: No surviving American languages?'

Actually, that would be pretty easy, come to think.

Looking at other languages comparable to Latin and Chinese: You could get rid of Arabic, but that would be relatively easy with a POD of 400. How about Semitic languages in general?

Actually, Turkic languages might be interesting to see, with say a POD of 1300. Or Bantu, I don't know when.
 
Looking at other languages comparable to Latin and Chinese: You could get rid of Arabic, but that would be relatively easy with a POD of 400. How about Semitic languages in general?

Actually, Turkic languages might be interesting to see, with say a POD of 1300. Or Bantu, I don't know when.

Germanic would be impossible, wouldn't it?
 
Give the Mongols a written language (better if alphabetical), a missionary religion, a lasting political structure, a lot of luck and a plague, and with some handwavium, you may have Sinitic languages reduced to local minorities with minor cultural relevance.

Another though one could be "no surviving Austronesian language" with POD no earlier than, uhm let's say 1300 AD (latest proposed date for settlementes in New Zealand and Eastar Island, AFAIK).
 
Give the Mongols a written language (better if alphabetical), a missionary religion, a lasting political structure, a lot of luck and a plague, and with some handwavium, you may have Sinitic languages reduced to local minorities with minor cultural relevance.

How is it possible for a part of northern china to be korean in this scenario?
 
Looking at other languages comparable to Latin and Chinese: You could get rid of Arabic, but that would be relatively easy with a POD of 400. How about Semitic languages in general?

Actually, Turkic languages might be interesting to see, with say a POD of 1300. Or Bantu, I don't know when.

For Semitic: make sure that the analog of Sargon TTL comes from a Sumerian-speaking area. The Sumerian colony in Asshur loses its Sumerian character, but assimilates to local Subareans rather the Amorreans and Akkadian-speaking groups. Make sure that the Mitanni and Egyptian supremacy is more profound and long-lasting (maybe the Hyksos are repelled?), and add some Filistim, Zeker and other people that keep their ancestral language (maybe Indo-european or Thyrrenian). Aramean expansion will still occur but without producing linguistic assimilation. The alt-phoenicians will still develop an alphabet from hierogliphs, but to write their Egyptian-based creole. Sumerian, Hurrian and Egyptian will be the great cultural languages of the Middle East. At this point, butterflies as huge that you can't control them, but you can have a Meroitic-Nubian state established in Ethiopia before the Habasha and related peoples massively settle from Yemen, and handwave it into invasion and colonization of Yemen proper. At some point of the Iron Age, a Middle Eastern empire similar to Assirians or the late Babylonians, but linguistically Sumerian or Hurrian (add Kassites and Lullubites, for the lulz) finds the Arabs such a nuisance to go and conquer it, killing lots of people and enslaving-deporting most of the rest.
To finish the job, have the Egyptians or the Nubians or the *Ethiopians displace some desert population like the Blemmyes or the Beja to the other side of the Red Sea (OTL Saud Arabia). Have those people become the dominant nomadic group, assimilating the Semitic tribes.
I think there's no handwavium left anymore.
 
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