Language revival

Language Revival: Manchu and Macanese

How about reviving both the Manchu and Macanese languages?

(FYI: Macanese is a Portuguese-basee creole language)
 
Revive the Manchu language. :);)

:D

And IRL I do support Manchu-revival enterprises in the PRC and ROC -- support morally, at least; I have no hands-on involvement. Even though the materials I've seen and the results I've read have borne very little resemblance to... what to call it? Classical Manchu? Chancery Manchu? Even little resemblance to Xibo, a Manchu half-brother spoken out in Xinjiang for generations. It's a new beast, and I love it perhaps even more for that, but I'm uncomfortable with the blood/genes-are-language-are-culture-are-destiny aspects of (all) kinds of ethnonational consciousness-raising.

Speaking as a half-German, half-Mohawk American who didn't set foot in America until college.
 
Yup, the mother of all Indo-Aryan languages

No, it's not. It is one of the oldest-attested members of the Indo-Aryan language family. Those are very different statements.

[Um, sorry; clarification/pseudo-retraction: I took you to mean 'mother' in the sense of "genetic" linguistic descent. In which case, I heartily disagree. If you meant in the sense of "the awesomest and coolest-est of the Indo-Aryan languages", erm, well, then yeah I do agree ;) ]
 
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Here's a tough one: The Taino language. Could anyone, from the indigenous wives of the first Spanish settlers, to the early maroons living off the grid, preserve Taino enough in the Caribbean that it might flourish and spread to survive to the modern day? This is excepting the odd case of Garifuna, of course.
 

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Damn it, Luis, I am going to tackle the resurrection of a fabla aragonesa even if it kills me! Viva Aragon!
 
The Spanish would either have abandoned the caribbean or have hit it big continental America much faster so that the islands quickly became poor neglected back water
 
another language revival

How about reviving Coptic and Nubian in their respective countries (Egypt and [North] Sudan, respectively)? Just thinking,.
 
No, it's not. It is one of the oldest-attested members of the Indo-Aryan language family. Those are very different statements.

[Um, sorry; clarification/pseudo-retraction: I took you to mean 'mother' in the sense of "genetic" linguistic descent. In which case, I heartily disagree. If you meant in the sense of "the awesomest and coolest-est of the Indo-Aryan languages", erm, well, then yeah I do agree ;) ]

Sanskrit can be termed as the mother of all North Indian languages and even the Dravidian languages have borrowed large number of words from Sanskrit. But the North Indian languages are not directly born out of literary Sanskrit. It was from the Prakrits, regional spoken forms of Sanskrit, that the modern North Indian languages were born. Prakrit means natural, uncultured, not refined etc. Sanskrit means refined or cultured. Literary Sanskrit is the refined form of the ancient language used by educated people. The common people usually spoke Prakrits, or its unrefined forms. Pali was also a form of Prakrit used by Lord Buddha. Sanskrit could have been chosen as the national language, but I think that Nehru, did not want to choose the "religious" language of Hinduism, to prove his "secular" credentials.
 
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You had welsh colonies in Patahonia. Did you know that Kerguelen island was discovered by a Breton. Have Bretons colonixze thereisland as the kelpies colonized the Falklands Breton could then be an official language..
 
Maybe you could consider the modern Turkish language a revival of the original Turkish language before Arabic and Persian influence.
 
Aymara is the one major member of the Aymaran language family. There are other languages but there are very few speakers. Aymara shares a lot of vocabulary with the southern Quechua dialects and some scholars like to propose that Aymara and Quechua are part of a larger language family though this hasn't been exactly confirmed. It is assumed that a proto-Aymara language was spoken by the people who founded Tiwanaku, one of the predecessor states to the Inca Empire so one can make the analogy between the two.

But unlike the relationship between Greek and Latin, Aymara's range of speakers decreased due to Inca and later Spanish domination.

The comparison also fits due to the division of the Aymara into many small kingdoms and chiefdoms (at least seven by the time the Incas rose to power), not unlike the division of the Greeks into various city-states.
 
In my TL, Quechua will be the main language of the Andes, since there's sort of an Inca revival state. Portuguese will most likely largely fade from Brazil as well. In Europe, a hybrid Sami-Norse/Swedesh tongue will become a very dominate language in that part of the world.
 
It would be fun to see the old Aghvanian revived by some fancy Azeri government that for some reasons wants to sever the links with the other Turkic speakers, but it probably belongs to ASB.

This has some interesting (post-1900) potentials. There are two ways I can see this happening (yes, highly ASB), both involving Iran:

1) Have Soviet-era adventures in Iranian Azerbaijan go terribly wrong, and the leadership decides that they have to keep any sort of revanchist feelings from the local Azeri leadership, as well as on the Iranian side of things, they promote pre-Turkic languages with an effectiveness that somehow makes them the majority spoken language of the region by the present day.

2) Post independence, have Turkey and Armenia patch up their differences (some compromise statement regarding the Genocide, make the ARF and its territorial goals a fringe movement, etc), and have Azerbaijan, furious about the loss of Nagorno-Karabakh, promote pre-Turkic roots to assert their claims to most of old Caucasian Albania.
 
Here's a tough one: The Taino language. Could anyone, from the indigenous wives of the first Spanish settlers, to the early maroons living off the grid, preserve Taino enough in the Caribbean that it might flourish and spread to survive to the modern day? This is excepting the odd case of Garifuna, of course.

There's still a creole Spanish-Taino-Carib language spoken. Personally, I want to learn it, but I'm not doing the greatest job at keeping my full Spanish language skills either:p. There might have been some speakers of other dialects on the islands as late as the 19th century in the mountain villages.
 
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