Zireen and Sangari (was Re: Star Trek)

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>>In my fictional reality (Azir), the Zireen and Sangari are closely
>>enough related to interbreed, but they've been separated for so long
>>that none of their languages or words in their languages (beyond recent
>>borrowings) are recognizable as being related.
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> How long ago did they separate from each other?
I don't know the exact date. At least tens of thousands of years in the
past, and probably less than a million.


>>      There's a general
>>tendency for their languages to have ergative/absolutive syntax and
>>morphology (in contrast to the "Elvish" languages which are more
>>nominative/accusative), but not much else in common.
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> Are Proto-Zireen and Proto-Sangari reconstructible, or are these too too far
> remote in the past?
As with humans, writing was invented long after languages had
diversified. Additionally, much of the early Zireen history has been lost.