Diachronics (was: Conlang for the Foundations saga)

Eric Christopherson wrote:
>*Off topic... If you're like me, you do care about plotting out  diachronic
>development. I've been wondering for a while what the  "deepest" conlang
>is, diachronically -- how much time in conreality  it takes to evolve. The
>deepest I've seen so far is the Drem family  at
>http://www.geocities.com/dremlangs/ , which spans about 13,000  years. I'd
>love to plot the evolution of a language at least that far.
The title "Proto-Drem", as well as the notion of placing it at minus 5000 on
the timescale, does suggest that there will be daughterlangs eventually, but
none of them appear to be in there yet... so it's "only" 8KA worth of
changes at the moment.

I'm not explicitely aware of any loooong diachronics, but I suppose
rudimentary sketches of some 20 millenia would not be impossible. It's
sketching the details that's the hard part...

(well this message ended up less interesting than it could've)

John Vertical

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