Cuāuhtemōc
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It's been a while since the last one was made and it doesn't seem appropriate to bring back an really old thread, starting from scratch. Be creative and just have fun with this.
Alternate Languages & Scripts III
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Name: Punican-Gaulish
History: The gradual evolution of linguistics due to increased Carthaginian influence in Southern Gaul after their great victory in the Second Punic War. While the Carthaginians were largely pushed out this developed in the far South regions and spread with the formation of Gallic trading states.
Description: Usually found in far-Southern Gaul and the areas colonized by the trading states there. Went extinct after a time but constituted a mix of Gaulish and Phoenician linguistics.
History: The gradual evolution of linguistics due to increased Carthaginian influence in Southern Gaul after their great victory in the Second Punic War. While the Carthaginians were largely pushed out this developed in the far South regions and spread with the formation of Gallic trading states.
Description: Usually found in far-Southern Gaul and the areas colonized by the trading states there. Went extinct after a time but constituted a mix of Gaulish and Phoenician linguistics.
Dilmunese
Description:
The Dilmunese language is a language isolate spoken in the islands of Dilmun (OTL Bahrain and Qatar) in the Persian Gulf/Gulf of Arabia. A descendant of the ancient Sumerian language, it survived both Nestorian Christian and Islamic incursions to the country, thus it acquired loanwords from Aramaic, Persian and Arabic. According to Ethnologue, most of 1.25 million Dilmunese spoke the language, including migrant workers from South Asia and Yemen who intermarried with the native Dilmunese.
History:
Both linguistics and historians, Dilmunese and foreign, believed that more than half of the current Dilmunese population came from Sumer (now Erek/Iraq) region, mostly merchants and nobility who opposed the unification of Sumer with the Semitic Akkad under the leadership of King Sargon. For generations, the ancient Dilmunese retained their language and basic elements of their culture, enriched by influences from both Nestorian Christians (Aramaic) and Islamic Arabs (Arabic), added to its strategic location within the Gulf. The 20th century saw the transformation not just of Dilmunese economy because of the petroleum boom, but also the society in general as migrants from South Asia and Yemen introduced new words to the Dilmunese language.
Writing system:
Originally written in cuneiform, the Dilmunese language switched to the Pahlavi script (the original abjad in original right-to-left writing, opposed to what left-to-write direction used in Iranian languages by the scribes of both Parthian and Sassanian empire), complete with diacritics. In the advent of Islam in Dilmun, the Arabic script was used in religion and philosophical writing in the language. At present, the language is written in Dilmunic-Pahlavi abjad, although the Arabic script is also permitted.
I hope that this version of the Alternate Languages Thread will be more successful,
Description:
The Dilmunese language is a language isolate spoken in the islands of Dilmun (OTL Bahrain and Qatar) in the Persian Gulf/Gulf of Arabia. A descendant of the ancient Sumerian language, it survived both Nestorian Christian and Islamic incursions to the country, thus it acquired loanwords from Aramaic, Persian and Arabic. According to Ethnologue, most of 1.25 million Dilmunese spoke the language, including migrant workers from South Asia and Yemen who intermarried with the native Dilmunese.
History:
Both linguistics and historians, Dilmunese and foreign, believed that more than half of the current Dilmunese population came from Sumer (now Erek/Iraq) region, mostly merchants and nobility who opposed the unification of Sumer with the Semitic Akkad under the leadership of King Sargon. For generations, the ancient Dilmunese retained their language and basic elements of their culture, enriched by influences from both Nestorian Christians (Aramaic) and Islamic Arabs (Arabic), added to its strategic location within the Gulf. The 20th century saw the transformation not just of Dilmunese economy because of the petroleum boom, but also the society in general as migrants from South Asia and Yemen introduced new words to the Dilmunese language.
Writing system:
Originally written in cuneiform, the Dilmunese language switched to the Pahlavi script (the original abjad in original right-to-left writing, opposed to what left-to-write direction used in Iranian languages by the scribes of both Parthian and Sassanian empire), complete with diacritics. In the advent of Islam in Dilmun, the Arabic script was used in religion and philosophical writing in the language. At present, the language is written in Dilmunic-Pahlavi abjad, although the Arabic script is also permitted.
I hope that this version of the Alternate Languages Thread will be more successful,
dissentcontinues
Banned
Gotthiko (γοτθικό)
(Inspired by the Goth Greece thread where I made sarcastic Marilyn Manson and the Crow cracks)
Description: A language spoken in western and northern Greece, with some Latin and Persian loanwords. Spoken by 10 million people.
History:
During the fall of Rome to the barbarians in an ATL where Christianity never arose, the one division of the Goths, the Ostrogoths overtook the ancient lands of Greece, already depopulated by the ravages of the Hun and the Sassanid Persian incursion coming after. The Ostrogoths settled in Greece and interbred and mixed their culture with the remaining Greeks and Latins. The Gothic and Greek pantheons were mixed, as were their languages.
Writing System:
Uses Greek koine script and with a slight majority of Gothic words.
(Inspired by the Goth Greece thread where I made sarcastic Marilyn Manson and the Crow cracks)
Description: A language spoken in western and northern Greece, with some Latin and Persian loanwords. Spoken by 10 million people.
History:
During the fall of Rome to the barbarians in an ATL where Christianity never arose, the one division of the Goths, the Ostrogoths overtook the ancient lands of Greece, already depopulated by the ravages of the Hun and the Sassanid Persian incursion coming after. The Ostrogoths settled in Greece and interbred and mixed their culture with the remaining Greeks and Latins. The Gothic and Greek pantheons were mixed, as were their languages.
Writing System:
Uses Greek koine script and with a slight majority of Gothic words.
Silla Script
Description:
The Silla script, as being used by the seafaring peoples of Korea during the time, widely served as the basis for writing scripts along the Pacific Rim. Modern sources point to the Silla script being the origins to the Japanese Katakana and the mysterious "Tungus Runes" found deep in Siberia and Alaska.
History:
The Silla script was locally produced to serve as a walking stick along with Hanja(Chinese script) in the early 4th century. It was widely used amongst peasants in learning Classical Chinese and Buddhist scripts and survived the fall of Unified Silla in the 10th century.
The Silla script, however, is not the basis for Hangeul, which is the modern writing system for most Koreans. The only major examples found in modern times for any signs of the Silla script exist in Japan, Cambodia, and parts of Indonesia.
Description:
The Silla script, as being used by the seafaring peoples of Korea during the time, widely served as the basis for writing scripts along the Pacific Rim. Modern sources point to the Silla script being the origins to the Japanese Katakana and the mysterious "Tungus Runes" found deep in Siberia and Alaska.
History:
The Silla script was locally produced to serve as a walking stick along with Hanja(Chinese script) in the early 4th century. It was widely used amongst peasants in learning Classical Chinese and Buddhist scripts and survived the fall of Unified Silla in the 10th century.
The Silla script, however, is not the basis for Hangeul, which is the modern writing system for most Koreans. The only major examples found in modern times for any signs of the Silla script exist in Japan, Cambodia, and parts of Indonesia.
Chinikwawa
Spoken along the Northwestern Coast of North America from Southern Ayliska, south to Half Moon Bay. It is the official language of the Potlatch Confederation and is spoken by several million people.
It started out as a trade language which became a creole which the formation of the Confederacy in the early 1300's after contact with Nippinese traders.
It is written in a modified Katakana script.
Spoken along the Northwestern Coast of North America from Southern Ayliska, south to Half Moon Bay. It is the official language of the Potlatch Confederation and is spoken by several million people.
It started out as a trade language which became a creole which the formation of the Confederacy in the early 1300's after contact with Nippinese traders.
It is written in a modified Katakana script.
Cuāuhtemōc
Banned
Antiochienne
Description:
The Antiochienne language is a Romance language spoken as a primary language in the city of Antioch and the Syrian coast. It is considered a lingua franca amongst the Catholic Christian population in Syria. It belongs to the langues d'levant branch of the Romance language family. The historical background of its formation was Prince Bohemond I and his Norman knights seizing Antioch from the Muslims in the First Crusade.
It has about three million total speakers but only 900,000 of those speak it as a first language with diaspora communities in the nations of Europe, Asia and Africa. It serves as a national language of Syria alongside Aramaic, Arabic and Greek and is a minority language in its neighbors Phoenicia and Jerusalem.
Although a daughter language of Norman French, a significant fraction of Antiochienne vocabulary is derived from Arabic and Greek origin via Crusader contact and intermarriage with the Arab Muslims and Eastern Christians. It also incorporated loanwords from English, German and Italian via contact with merchants, immigrants and religious pilgrims during the past eight centuries.
History:
Bohemond I and his followers came from southern Italy but they were ultimately of Norman origin. An insignificant number of the newly installed Antiochene aristocracy also came from other regions in Italy, such as Apulia and Sicily, and France like Picardy. In a few generations, the dialects amalgamated and formed a new language known as Antiochienne. It initially had the origin of a peasant language, spoken by the lower-ranking knights and free landowning farmers of Antioch.
After the Mongol Ilkhans had conquered Antioch and subjected the primarily Norman-descended aristocracy to the sword, Antiochienne began to carry prestige as its speakers ascended to rule in the Khan's stead as the high social strata in medieval Antioch. Its use quickly proliferated in the law courts, schools and universities, replacing Norman and Old French. As Mongol rule declined and Antioch asserted its independence, the language spread beyond Antioch to the other Catholic-dominant ports in Syria by the merchants and workers.
Private and commercial correspondence in Antioch was carried out in Antiochienne from the fourteenth century to seventeenth century. Its spelling forms diverged more and more from Continental French as Antiochene nobles no longer sent their sons and daughters abroad to universities in Europe to be provided an education. Social classes other than the nobility became keen to learn Antiochienne: manuscripts containing materials for instructing Arab merchants in Egypt still exists, dating three hundred years ago.
Antiochienne's status as the language of Christian Syria declined when the kingdom fell to the Hashemite Sharifs in 1683. It became eclipsed by Arabic but it has left an impression on the Syrian dialects of Arabic and Aramaic much as those languages left an impression on it.
Description:
The Antiochienne language is a Romance language spoken as a primary language in the city of Antioch and the Syrian coast. It is considered a lingua franca amongst the Catholic Christian population in Syria. It belongs to the langues d'levant branch of the Romance language family. The historical background of its formation was Prince Bohemond I and his Norman knights seizing Antioch from the Muslims in the First Crusade.
It has about three million total speakers but only 900,000 of those speak it as a first language with diaspora communities in the nations of Europe, Asia and Africa. It serves as a national language of Syria alongside Aramaic, Arabic and Greek and is a minority language in its neighbors Phoenicia and Jerusalem.
Although a daughter language of Norman French, a significant fraction of Antiochienne vocabulary is derived from Arabic and Greek origin via Crusader contact and intermarriage with the Arab Muslims and Eastern Christians. It also incorporated loanwords from English, German and Italian via contact with merchants, immigrants and religious pilgrims during the past eight centuries.
History:
Bohemond I and his followers came from southern Italy but they were ultimately of Norman origin. An insignificant number of the newly installed Antiochene aristocracy also came from other regions in Italy, such as Apulia and Sicily, and France like Picardy. In a few generations, the dialects amalgamated and formed a new language known as Antiochienne. It initially had the origin of a peasant language, spoken by the lower-ranking knights and free landowning farmers of Antioch.
After the Mongol Ilkhans had conquered Antioch and subjected the primarily Norman-descended aristocracy to the sword, Antiochienne began to carry prestige as its speakers ascended to rule in the Khan's stead as the high social strata in medieval Antioch. Its use quickly proliferated in the law courts, schools and universities, replacing Norman and Old French. As Mongol rule declined and Antioch asserted its independence, the language spread beyond Antioch to the other Catholic-dominant ports in Syria by the merchants and workers.
Private and commercial correspondence in Antioch was carried out in Antiochienne from the fourteenth century to seventeenth century. Its spelling forms diverged more and more from Continental French as Antiochene nobles no longer sent their sons and daughters abroad to universities in Europe to be provided an education. Social classes other than the nobility became keen to learn Antiochienne: manuscripts containing materials for instructing Arab merchants in Egypt still exists, dating three hundred years ago.
Antiochienne's status as the language of Christian Syria declined when the kingdom fell to the Hashemite Sharifs in 1683. It became eclipsed by Arabic but it has left an impression on the Syrian dialects of Arabic and Aramaic much as those languages left an impression on it.