Re: Atlantaic Culture on Frathwiki

--- Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

> >       I'll post the link here. This is
> > the first time that the human and not
> > Nestean/Silindion side of this world has appeared
> > online.
> >
> > http://wiki.frath.net/Atalantaic
>
> Nice so far.  The names have an Indo-European ring
> to them
> (it's mostly the frequent ending -os); what does the
> language
> look like?

The language has barely been worked on in fact. I have
about 2 paragraphs of material in it, and basically a
word by word grammar. It's very rudimentary, since I
like to spend more time on Nestean things. That said,
the language is based on Greek, so you are correct in
your guess about 'Indo-European'. The later language,
Classical Daronidic is more Celtic oriented once
again. I can't geet too far away from it.

Anyway, here's an example of Atlantaic, from a king
list:

na têa eti tê Negittílos adálistê, si nistórix
Darónydê, esphindási. Phyi tê si Dároli, tê si
Agómeniê, phyi si Egózimi, nistoriki tê Dároni, phyi
si Atálantê. Kéilô génei si phyi tê Agástorix.

Interlinear:

na   têa   eti        tê Negittílos
adálistê, si         nistórix
and thus indeed he Negittilos-nom praised, poss.3
king-nom.

Darónydê           esphindási.       Phyi           tê
 si Dároli
Daronydês-gen.  come-pst-3s   son-nom.  he his
Darolos-gen.

tê si   Agómeniê,           phyi         si Egózimi
he his Agomenên-gen., son-nom his Egozimos-gen.

nistoriki   tê   Dároni,            phyi          si
Atálantê
king-gen. he Daronos-gen.  son-nom. his Atalantês-gen.


Kéilô            génei              si phyi
tê Agástorix
Afterwards   was.born-3s  his son-nom.  he Agastorix

"And thus indeed did he, Negittilos the praised one,
king of the Daronydes, come forth. He was the son of
Darolos who was Agomenên's son, son of Egozimos, of
that King (i.e. of Daronos), son of Atalantês.
Afterwards, was born his son (i.e. Negittolos' son),
Agastorix."


As you can see, it's heavy on demonstratives and
possessives to weave together sentences. Things like
"tê" "he" are not always translated. However,
sometimes it is used to introduce a relative clause:

tê si   Agómeniê "who (was) of him of Agomenên"

Sometimes it is used to indicate "that is, i.e.":

nistoriki tê Dároni  "of the king, i.e. of Daronos"


 From the small amount of material on this language, I
can see that I planned for this abundance of
demonstrative use, probably to imitate certain aspects
of Greek particle usage.

-Elliott










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