Re: Zera and other conlangs

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, DOUGLAS KOLLER wrote:

> Géarthnuns speakers (themselves yet unnamed) reside on an island (also
> as yet unnamed) in the Sea of Japan, offshore from where the borders
> of China, Korea, and Russia converge. It exists in our time.
> Géarthnuns speakers, unfortunately, don't have the memory-blotting
> effects of the Anta, nor the advantage of an island which moves as do
> the speakers of Teonaht, but consider themselves discreet enough to
> have migrated eastward undetected across great swaths of Europe and
> Asia before settling in and becoming the most courteous of neighbors.
> As such, they don't really disrupt "here" history, but for the
> geological implications of a new island suddenly popping up near
> Vladivostok.
A-ha!  For such a large conworld, some of the prime territory can still be
fought over.  I'd originally thought of locating the Sayat-speakers
someplace near there, either on Sakhalin or on the mainland, in the
Sikhote Alin range or along the Ussuri basin.  In the end I decided not to
do that (it wasn't remote enough, and I wanted them to have more political
autonomy in the modern age), but I still regret it.  Perhaps the
Gearthnuns-speakers can be slotted in with the Sayat and Boreanesians (if
not the Nowans, too) as a sort of Pacific Conlang League?

Kenji