Re: Alternative histories and paralele universes

Kenji Schwarz wrote:

> I've been thinking/hoping to co-locate my Tungusic conlang (Sayat *) with
> others. In a sense, I guess, it's partially due to an urge to combat the
> Tokana isn't.  I'm still torn between dumping the Sayat on Sakhalin or on
> Kamchatka (one of the larger Kuriles has been tempting, but ultimately is
> too small and barren), but in either case it joins the ranks of North
> Pacific conlangs (Nowan and Boreanesian off the top of my head, and there
> are others, too, aren't there?).
>
> In any case, I'd be very glad to share an alternate "Earth, 1999" that has
> the same laws of physics and only (relatively) locally divergent history.
> Just give me a good-sized chunk of land where the reindeer can roam.
> old North Tungusic language, with good chunks of vocabulary borrowed from
> its 'Hyperborean' neighbors... oh, and a few morphological thingamajigs...
> the syntax has diverged a bit too... well, whatever...
We may be able to work something out!  Nowapan, the country where
Nova is spoken is nearby.  It basically straddles the International
Date Line between 45 degrees and 30 degrees parallels and 165 degrees
east to 150 degrees west.  That is a crude generalization but
close enough.  Nowapan is, for a variety of reasons, a very
isolationist, neutral, nuclear power with a population of about
135,000,000.  I am presently working out more of the details of its
role in WW 2 but it includes an invasion of Hokkaido in 1945.  If
you are on Sakhalin, I could probably scrape together a few divisions
to liberate you as well :)  We could probably work out some interactions
for Kamchatka too.  I am willing to offer land in a large Northeastern
penninsula if you are interested, but there you run into my wildlife
and geography. Its mountainous, high tundras inland, and cold
rainforests along some coasts. Details on both are available from my
Nowapan reference handbook at the conlang page below.  Might be quite
interesting to have a Homo sapiens minority tucked away.
        Don't know if this is what you have in mind or not, saying no
is fine.  I am protective of my creation too.
        How many Sayat speakers are there?

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