Timeline Ideas

Which of these suits your fancy?

  • King of Snakes

    Votes: 7 13.0%
  • This Man Too Is Alexander

    Votes: 14 25.9%
  • Not My Heifer

    Votes: 17 31.5%
  • For Want That A Fire Should Burn

    Votes: 7 13.0%
  • Heaven Lost

    Votes: 3 5.6%
  • Not So Cruel A Mistress

    Votes: 6 11.1%

  • Total voters
    54
  • Poll closed .
Alright guys, we’re tied again. I am happy to write either, but if you leave me with a tie by 12:40 Eastern Time, I will choose, rendering this whole voting business meaningless
 
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Alrighty then! Not My Heifer it is! Obviously, this timeline will require an enormous amount of research and conlanging. I expect to see you all in a month or so! Thanks for voting!
 
Moooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Alrighty then! Not My Heifer it is! Obviously, this timeline will require an enormous amount of research and conlanging. I expect to see you all in a month or so! Thanks for voting!

If i may make a suggestion, with the IE peoples* moving southward (or at least a good chunk of them), the Uralic peoples* might take their place moving westward.

*to the extent that these large linguistic groups can be called a "people"
 
If i may make a suggestion, with the IE peoples* moving southward (or at least a good chunk of them), the Uralic peoples* might take their place moving westward.

*to the extent that these large linguistic groups can be called a "people"


My understanding of the matter was that modern research points to the Corded Ware Culture being associated with Uralic languages, and so I was already probably going that route. However, it also seems that Bell Beakers were not originally an Indo-European-speaking group until they collided with Yamnaya migrants in Central Europe, where the so-called “Northwestern Indo-European”, i.e. Italo-Celtic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, and perhaps Albanian and Illyrian (if we accept that Albanian is closer to Germanic than anything else), broke off from Late Indo-European. So, it’s possible that the Bell Beaker’s will continue their expansion across Europe culturally and linguistically, and that might mean Uralic languages being more of a Northern European thing.


Still, the expansion of the Corded Ware people seems to have been associated with conquest, and so they might just continue their rampage through Westerb Europe (they were already in Eastern France before the IE expansion). It could be very interesting to see Uralic languages spoken across most of Europe indeed, though. But, they would likely break up into their own distinct branches, which... creates more work. Lol


I already have to create several distinct branches of Indo-European for the Middle East and the Balkans, re-write the evolution of Anatolian languages as they will not have the same substrata, put together as much material I can on how Sumerian influenced Akkadian, get all of the info I can on Hurro-Urartian and Hattic, and also try to snuff out what is available on the “bannana languages” of the Middle East. Oh, and let’s not forget Proto-Semitic! I need as much as I can get on that too...


Obviously, it will be some time before we start seeing the first of this timeline.
 
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The "banana languages" may not be necessary, and idon't mean because their existence is disputed, but because if they left a substrate in sumerian, south Semitic and Elamite while dying out, that happened well before your PoD.

Have you thought about the Format for this TL already?
 
Yay!!!!
The "banana languages" may not be necessary, and idon't mean because their existence is disputed, but because if they left a substrate in sumerian, south Semitic and Elamite while dying out, that happened well before your PoD.

Have you thought about the Format for this TL already?


I have, although I don’t have anything set in stone. I was reading Lands of Red and Gold and Lands of Ice and Mice, and I also came across this peculiar timeline by a banned member called How a Ptarmigan Changed History, but nothing is set in stone. The third one is kind of difficult to follow, since it talks extensively about climate and the like, and I’m not that well read on the subject matter that the timeline deals with, but I like the intro... “The scene is Doggerland...” It sounds like Christopher Lee should be narrating it :closedtongue:


Anyways, I’m not sure if the “bannana languages” would have been extinct just yet. The POD is in the mid-4th millennium BCE. That’s before the first recorded Sumerian or even Egyptian. Not that the languages weren’t there of course, but still. Also, Semitic might not have broken into separate branches yet.
 
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