Re: Synthesis of many topics

"Jesse S. Bangs" wrote:
> BTW, how many other a priori conlangs with rich historical structures?
Watakassí is descended from Common Kassí, which is also the ancestor of
keTaráve.  Common Kassí is pretty detailed.  The two languages split
around 650 BP [Before the Prophetess - 1 YF - Year of the Faith - is the
timeframe of my description].  Common Kassí is descended from
Proto-Kassi-Plia.  The Plia branch (now only existing as a single
language, Kinva, with two major surviving dialects) and the Kassí branch
split about 1500 BP.  Proto-Kassi-Plia is descended from
Proto-Southern-Kashic, splitting around 2300 BP from the Sanle branch,
which has survived as a single, very widespread, language, Sanle.  The
three major branches of the Kashic family (West, South, North) split
around 2800 BP.  The West Branch survives only in a single, small,
language, Nease, and the North Branch had at the time of the Prophetess,
3 surviving languages, two of which died out within a few centuries.  I
have sketched in a little bit of detail for Proto-Kassi-Plia and
Proto-Kashic, as well as sketching out the development of Sanle.  Sanle
has been written almost its entire history, to just after Kassi-Plia
split away, so a good deal is known of that ancient stage of W's
evolution, but the middle stages, until very near the end of Common
Kassí is unknown, about 15 centuries.

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