Re: Who gets the human languages?

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:01:10 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>Since you obviously feel free to remove an entire race from the coniverse by
>creative fiat, the solution that seems obvious to me* is to similar introduce a
>new race, which is non-human, but have the prerequisite number of fingers and
>fitting technologico-cultural circumstances.
Well, that's certainly possible. But there are already enough different
kinds of people living in Azir that it's not easy to figure out how they
all got there. So I don't know if it makes much sense to be adding more.

It's not just the humans who haven't carried over from Kolagia to Azir, but
they're the ones with all the languages. I never created any languages for
the Altairian trilobite people, so their absence from the Azirian reality
doesn't cause any difficulties. I haven't decided if the non-human speakers
of Keluathi exist in the Azirian reality, but Keluathi isn't a very well
developed language, so I can assign it to almost anyone (but not Zireen,
since Keluathi does have a word for "red", a color that Zireen can't see).

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